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.
MOTHER EMANUEL—AN AMERICAN MUSICAL PLAY (New Freedom Theatre): Taking the theater to church New Freedom Theatre honors Emanuel Nine in new musical by creating a gospel celebration that honors their lives 
PROJECT DAWN (People’s Light): The hug or the hammer A well-intentioned but dull play about an important legal program in Philadelphia. 
Theater in Sketch: HIR (Simpatico) Simpatico Theatre Company's production of HIR by Taylor Mac challenges audiences to reconsider preconceptions of gender identity 
Ritchie Valens in THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY: Interview with actor Gilbert Sanchez GILBERT SANCHEZ speaks about his role as Ritchie Valens in the current production. 
FUN HOME (national tour at Forrest Theatre): A study in want There was a perfection to the timing of FUN HOME’s arrival in Philadelphia: Another take on FUN HOME 
Did anyone anywhere actually believe that being photographed would take away the soul, or is that the kind of ethnocentric nonsense we need good foreign journalism to counter?
