Bernard Rose’s Mr. Nice has all the key elements of any drug movie: indulgence, greed, negative consequences and swimming pools. With a [...]
Articles By: Amy Hamblen
FILM: Lebanon, Pa.
For some reason or another I’ve often saved Sunday afternoons for those quiet meandering movies that break down life’s poignant moments at [...]
Roy Haynes and the Fountain of Youth Band @ Jazz Standard, 5/21/11
In close-quarters, a lively buzz filled the packed room. Jazz fans were drinking wine and ordering Blue Smoke Ale in the underground [...]
Treasure Island @ Brooklyn’s Irondale Center, through March 26
“Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum”: a drunken Santa’s carol of choice? Perhaps, but more recently it’s part of a song audiences [...]
DVD: Metropia
Metropia (Tribeca Film) The future is full of brain-washing shampoo, Hello Kitty and people with really big heads, or at least it [...]
DVD: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Jean-Michel Basquiat The Radiant Child (New Video Group) Tamra Davis’ Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child contains footage of an interview the filmmaker [...]
FILM: Barney’s Version
Based on Mordecai Richler’s comic novel, Richard J. Lewis’ Barney’s Version is a film with some real substance. Bored with cookie-cutter protagonists, [...]
Bad Buka @ Mehanata, 12/31/10
Jumping, spilling drinks, dancing, knocking into one another, a shot girl in a tight white dress holding a rainbow of drinks on [...]
Film: Casino Jack
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s success in shocking the country with his greed and lack of scruples may be a story fit for the [...]

