(RAHWAY, NJ) -- Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) presents a screening of La Bamba in 35mm on Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 7:00pm. The screening marks UCPAC's salute to Hispanic Heritage Month. After the movie, there will be a dance party celebrating Richie Valens' music and other Latin rock and pop hits by the artists he inspired!
A beautiful, heartwarming story of two people whose past struggles prevented their love in their youth, finding their way back to each other in the end. From emotional voiceovers that evoke shared experience and connection, to characters whose personality is so clearly depicted they seem to be jumping out of the screen "Pierre West" is a short film that balances heartbreak, hope and love as perfectly tripodal as it could.
(ASTORIA, NY) -- Hellenic Film Society (HFS) kicks off its annual New York Greek Film Expo, a Greek film festival for all New Yorkers, with a special Opening Night Screening and Reception on October 2, 2025 at the Directors Guild Theater in Manhattan. Tickets are now available for purchase on the HFS's website.
Highest 2 Lowest is an apt title for Spike Lee's latest, as it's a film of peaks and troughs. The highs come courtesy of a pair of hammy but undeniably watchable performances from Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright. The lows come from, well, everything else, from a script that never settles on one idea long enough for it have impact to a wildly inappropriate score that sounds like a bad Riverdance knockoff.
Highest 2 Lowest is an apt title for Spike Lee's latest, as it's a film of peaks and troughs. The highs come courtesy of a pair of hammy but undeniably watchable performances from Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright. The lows come from, well, everything else, from a script that never settles on one idea long enough for it have impact to a wildly inappropriate score that sounds like a bad Riverdance knockoff.
Even as a schlock-obsessed kid I saw right through Troma's cynical attempts to manufacture prefabricated cult movies. Filmmakers don't make cult movies. Audiences make cult movies. Anyone who sets out to make a cult movie is on a hiding to nothing, but Troma thought they could game the system simply by giving their movies lurid titles and VHS artwork that the films inevitably failed to live up to, and in doing so they gave birth to the likes of The Asylum, with their endless Sharknado rehashes.
"Fun" and "romp" aren't words you commonly associate with director Darren Aronofsky, but that's just what he's delivered with Caught Stealing. Working with writer Charlie Heaton, who adapts his own novel here, Aronofsky has engineered a rollercoaster ride through a version of late '90s New York that is simultaneously gritty and cartoonish.
For all the action heroines Hollywood has given us in recent decades, it's still a surprise to see a woman behind the wheel for a high-octane car chase. Notable exceptions include Diana Rigg relegating James Bond to a passenger in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Linda Hamilton's upmarket car thief in Black Moon Rising, but such characters are rarities. Hollywood seems to believe audiences will accept five foot nothing women taking down hulking Russian henchmen, but parallel parking is a step too far.
Kareem Rahma is best known for his viral web series 'Subway Takes', in which he interviews a mix of everyday New Yorkers and celebrities while riding the city's subway network. As co-writer and one of the two leads of director Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder's Or Something, Rahma brings the same sort of laidback energy to this work of fiction that made his web series so popular. The written dialogue is at times a little stilted, with the the two leads often talking at rather than with each other, but Rahma is an undeniably engaging screen presence, as is his co-writer and co-star Mary Neely.
