Netanyahu isn’t Israel’s only visitor to the United States this month. Philadelphia’s annual Israeli Film Festival opens its 19th season this Saturday with a dark comedy featuring many of Israel’s top actors.
Members of Andy Warhol’s family are preserving their personal recollections in a new film project, UNCLE ANDY: THE ANDY WARHOL FAMILY FILM.
Today marks 28 years since Andy Warhol’s death. Deb Miller talks to his nephew, illustrator Jamie Warhola.
When a film is highly anticipated it goes one of two ways: either it lives up to the heady expectations or it unceremoniously flops.
Who should win. Who will win. Picks for the 2015 Academy Awards.
“Into the Woods” goes beyond fairy tale into exploring a basic human dilemma, how to fight a destructive common enemy.
Republished by kind permission from NealsPaper.com. Though Tim Burton plays it straight in this movie about a monomaniac who uses his wife’s talent to feed his ego and become fabulously…
This is a movie about one woman gaining personal survival skills that will give her confidence to face the vicissitudes of everyday life when she returns to it.
Morten Tyldum does a fine job of blending two stories: Alan Turing’s role in deciphering Nazi Germany’s Enigma Code, and his arrest and conviction for gross indecency.
The spirit of Samuel Taylor Coleridge has to be invoked practically every minute Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Birdman” digitally projects on the screen.
Republished by kind permission from NealsPaper.com. The characters in “Foxcatcher” are laconic in general and, when they do talk, speak in short, clipped phrases that compactly communicate what they want…
“The Theory of Everything” is a strong story because it’s one of care and victory.
The wastrel with a heart may not be a new character, but Bill Murray plays Vince with a satisfied nonchalance that makes this cliché watchable.
Phindie was saddened to hear about the passing of actor Robin Williams. Henrik Eger contributed this tribute to the comic:
Mark Mackner has been making supernatural thrillers in the underground Philly scene for almost 20 years now. His short film STUMP GRINDER has just been released online. He chats with Phindie about his latest release, the Philly independent film scene and his future goals.
Campy fun abounds at SINema After Hours. Shoshanna Green reviews a night of sin and scares at Walking Fish Theatre.
CABARET Couple: Talking to the married stars of a Broadway tour Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony award-winning production of CABARET will make its Philadelphia premiere at the Academy of Music April 4-9 
Theater in Sketch: CORIOLANUS (Shakespeare in Clark Park) The audience gather together on two adjacent hill sides and in the middle is a stretch of grass, 
TOMMY & ME (Theatre Exile): Theatrical touchdown A lovely and elegiac look at how a sportswriter developed his love for football and friendship with an Eagles quarterback. 
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Hedgerow): I hated Jane Austen, but I love this I took a seat on one of the long, cushioned benches at the unusual Hedgerow Theatre, a grist mill from the 1800s, for the opening night of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Satisfied that at least I was introduc... 
Literary Legacy: A History of Philadelphia Writers If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing. 
What a funny, nasty, smart show.
