Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee, collaborated with Stanley Kubrick when the two were both struggling photographers in the city. Weegee's work from his time behind the lens is being celebrated this year, but where's the love for Kubrick's photos? Back in the 1940s he was a staff photographer for LOOK Magazine, and yesterday the Museum of the City of New York Tweeted a link to photos of Kubrick's photographs capturing New York City’s subway commuters. more ›

With Netflix breaking the back of the working man, and Time Warner content to remain a cold, unkind monopoly, Verizon is attempting to distribute justice/FiOS to the denizens of Flatbush. But what if all those delicious channels and movies came with the price of a 20-foot eyesore that may or may not transform you into a fetus encased in an orb of light? more ›

Museum of the Moving Image, Queens more ›

READING: Today NY Mag asks, "What does Tina Brown have to do to get some attention?" Well tonight she's signing copies of her new book (a tell-all on Princess Di) called The Diana Chronicles. more ›

EVENT: Housing works is opening their new store in Brooklyn today. With great events and thrifty finds and a way to support the HIV-positive homeless community, it's nice to see the store is expanding. more ›

After last week's huge box office take for , you know that we're in it: the bang-up summer blockbuster season. However, even with all of this energy of over the top new releases in the air there's still some amazing old movies screening this weekend too. So you better get a watchin'. more ›

Ah January. That lovely first month of the year which big Hollywood uses as its annual dumping ground. The Awards eligibility period is over, and now is the time to catch-up on all those films being talked about that came out at the same time over the past few weeks. Still, New Yorkers are lucky as we retain many filmgoing options. Sure you can check-out the latest video game adaptation from hackmeister Uwe Boll, but if you heard about last year's which we're sure somebody will find funny. more ›

Ah, the ongoing fight between stores that sell adult materials and the neighborhoods that don't want them anymore. A number of stores that sell "adult materials" have successfully appealed a lower court ruling which held up a city law that said any business that sells any bit of porno is an adult business. Previously, the city had allowed stores to operate under a "60/40 rule": If 60% or more of their floor space/inventory was non-porn-related, it would be classified just as a business. (Yes, that's why some of those stores you pass by on Sixth Avenue are selling old copies of the Scooby Doo movie when most customers just head to the back.) But in 2001, in a bit of Giuliani, the city tacked on the amendment that "exiled such businesses from all neighborhoods outside certain industrial areas." According to the Daily News, Appellate Court Judge Susan Read wrote that the "[the city has to show that the 6-0/40 businesses still display a] predominant, ongoing focus on sexually explicit materials or activities." more ›

There's only one major wide release this weekend, and although it stars an Oscar winner, we can pretty much guarantee Paramount isn't expecting any year-end kudos for . In fact, it looks like the studio is hoping to slyly score a big opening weekend on the draws of Charlize Theron in skintight rubber and fans of the old MTV animated series because they aren't letting critics anywhere near it -- apparently no press screenings have been or will be held. more ›

In terms of English language filmmaking from the late '60s and early '70s, it's easy to focus on the output from American auteurs but directors from the UK, like Ken Russell, were also amazing innovators. more ›

Josh Levine, Concrete Classics more ›

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