Forbidden Cocktails and the Films of Hollywood’s Pre-Code Era
by Liz Locke, Cinemasips.com
If you enjoy exotic locales, beautiful costumes, strong female characters, and even stronger drinks, then pre-code films are sure to be right up your alley.
by Liz Locke, Cinemasips.com
If you enjoy exotic locales, beautiful costumes, strong female characters, and even stronger drinks, then pre-code films are sure to be right up your alley.
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
That’s what college shows represent in the grand scheme of teen shows. It’s very “high school never ends” from that Bowling for Soup song.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
This is my first year going, so here are some of the films I am excited to check out during the festival.
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Corin Nemec, who was Emmy nominated for I Know My First Name is Steven in 1989 and played the title character on TV’s Parker Lewis Can’t Lose in the 90’s, wrote the screenplay for Deadly Justice. The actor turned screenwriter spoke with MovieJawn about his new film, which marries true crime and the wrongly accused plot.
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
With David Copperfield and Sir Gawain, Patel finally got to inhabit two British men very much at the center of their own story, but wrestling with that story before our very eyes.
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
At the end of the day Dawson’s Creek is kind of the only show you need from this TV season, but it’s also deeply weird that almost none of it exists in a perceivable way.
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
For 25 years, Todd Verow has been writing, directing, producing and starring in films that feature extensive, extended and even explicit nudity.
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Kimble’s film proves that a contemporary reworking of Choderlos de Laclos’ novel lends itself quite well to the teen film genre.
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
It’s another weekend celebrating feminism and women in leadership on film in Morningside Heights this weekend, as the Athena Film Festival returns for another year at Barnard College.
by Megan Bailey, Staff Writer
The thing about Florida is that the sweltering heat, bright colors, and proximity to water make it feel like a fever dream.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Happy birthday to Robert Altman, who would’ve turned 99 today
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
I watch Office Space every 5 years or so partly because it gives me that pure late 90s nostalgia hit that I need sometimes, but also because I have more and more context with each subsequent viewing.
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
The term “slow burn romance” usually conjures up images from literary and period romances. However, the slow burn romance can be used well in the modern rom-com, particularly in my favorite romance trope: “friends to lovers.”
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor
Some of the more effective “enemies to lovers” romances in cinema use the science fiction trope of the time loop to great effect.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Soon after I watched it for the first time, Moonstruck became a fact of life. Maybe it’s because I was entering the peak of my Cage infatuation; maybe it’s because romcoms are rarely imbued with such bombast; maybe it’s because I remain enamoured with Italian-American affectation.
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
The winter time can be bleak for many of us, seasonal depression and a biting cold that makes us want to cozy up and never leave the house. However, there is always one event I look forward to as we enter February and that is The Final Girls Berlin Film Fest.
by Matthew Crump, Staff Writer
So how do you categorize someone as multifaceted as Diablo Cody? I know slapping a “coming-of-age” sticker on her because of a movie from 2007 doesn’t cut it, but for someone whose work has influenced my own, real-life coming-of-age journey, it’s what feels the most true to me.
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
If you love searching for lost horror gems and fangirl over B movie horror actors, you will truly appreciate what these filmmakers are doing.
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
In a recent interview, the up-and-coming actor, who appeared in the TV series On My Block, and in the film Knights of the Zodiac, spoke with MovieJawn about making Bad Hombres.
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Join us on a new monthly feature of TV all about teen shows!