Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary "Sabbath Queen"

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary Sabbath Queen on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at Temple Emeth. The film was directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski. Showtime is 3:00pm.

Teaneck International Film Festival presents a Screening of "A House is Not a Disco"

(TEANECK NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of A House Is Not A Disco on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at Puffin Cultural Form. The film documents a year in the life of the storied queer beach town (Fire Island) now facing the challenge of rising seas caused by climate change. The screening begins at 4:30pm.

New Release Review - "Woman of the Hour"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-10-23
In 1978, a woman named Cheryl Bradshaw found herself in the role of the "bachelorette" on an episode of The Dating Game. Her job was to choose from one of three "bachelors", who were hidden behind a screen, by asking them a serious of questions and determining their suitability for a date by their answers. On shows like this, the guys do their best to provide witty answers and come off as charming, but the reality is that the woman is simply trying to determine which of them is the least creepy. After asking a series of questions, Cheryl decided that the least creepy bachelor was a 35-year-old named Rodney Alcala. Ironically, Rodney was a serial killer who had murdered at least five women at that point and would go on to claim more victims.

New Release Review - "Smile 2"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-10-22
Parker Finn's 2022 directorial debut Smile was one of the horror genre's biggest surprises of recent years. Trailers suggested it would be little more than yet another bland studio horror with an arresting gimmick it fails to exploit. But Finn's film turned out to be a thoughtful and disturbing supernatural thriller, one that took the cliché of "trauma" and actually did something interesting with the idea. As an allegory for mental health issues and the looming spectre of potential suicide, it somehow managed to avoid coming across as exploitative or distasteful.

New Release Review - "Salem's Lot"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-10-19
The 1970s saw horror up sticks from its traditional setting of crumbling Gothic European mansions and move into a shiny new home in the suburbs and small towns of the US. Films like Halloween, The Fog, The Amityville Horror and Poltergeist brought the supernatural to a setting most viewers, especially Americans, could easily relate to. On the page, Stephen King was doing similar. In his 1975 novel Salem's Lot, a vampire literally relocates to small town New England. While King had several bestsellers and a Brian de Palma adaptation of his debut novel Carrie by that point, it was director Tobe Hooper's 1979 Salem's Lot TV mini-series that really made King a household name, and crucially, it introduced the writer's work to a new fanbase too young to have been able to see Carrie in cinemas. With one of its two central heroes being a monster movie obsessed young boy, it also set the template for '80s movies like The Goonies and The Monster Squad, which of course would later be channelled by Netflix's flagship series Stranger Things.

2024 Rutgers Jewish Film Festival Preview

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival's 25th anniversary year will feature fourteen thought-provoking and entertaining films, dynamic discussions with filmmakers and special guests, and numerous New Jersey premieres on dance, music, the LGBTQ+ experience, American Jewish history, and Israeli society. Twelve films will be screened at the Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick (November 7–17, 2024), and five films will be available virtually (November 15–21, 2024).

State Theatre New Jersey presents a Screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on November 2nd

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents a screening of the cult classic movie musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 11:00pm. In addition to the screening, from 9:00pm to 11:00pm, there is a pre-show party hosted by Rutgers' Cabaret Theatre with beats by DJ IZM, a full-service bar, and a costume contest with prizes. Tickets are $15 and includes a goodie bag of props (while supplies last).

2024 Teaneck International Film Festival Preview

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival, with its theme, Activism: Making Change, is back! A project of The Puffin Foundation Ltd., the 19th annual festival will be held November 7-14, 2024, featuring over 25 films, panel discussions, and parties, with filmmakers, actors, elected officials and industry guests attending.

New Release Review - "Daddy's Head"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-10-16
When I tell you Daddy's Head is a horror movie about a young boy left to live with his stepmother when his father dies as a result of a car accident, you'll probably jump to your own conclusions. Stepmothers have gotten a particularly bad rap in fiction over the centuries, so much so that the noun is more often than not prefaced by "wicked." As such, you probably think this is another story of an evil stepmother trying to get rid of the burden of the kid she's been saddled with, and you might even suspect that she was responsible for her husband's death. But writer/director Benjamin Barfoot subverts all our ingrained expectations of stepmother figures in fiction by presenting us with one who is very much the protagonist rather than the antagonist.