Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Saturday, as part of Film Forum’s biweekly series of “Stories from The New Yorker,” celebrating the magazine’s centennial, I presented a screening of Nicholas Ray’s 1956 melodrama Larger Than Life,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Food Scene, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where and how to eat. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Sunn’s, which opened late last year on the Lower East…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Food Scene, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where and how to eat. Sign up to get it in your inbox. There is something almost ritualistic about a Hawaiian dinner. A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In an episode of 30 Rock — a sitcom about a weekly live sketch show reminiscent of Saturday Night Live created by Tina Fey, former head writer of SNL — diva…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At first glance, the emergency room at Pittsburgh Trauma Center is the backdrop for Max’s new drama Pitt, and it’s the kind of place you wouldn’t send your worst enemy to.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first episode of the Netflix comedy-drama Moe showcases the abilities of its lead character, Mohammed Najjar. He’s set up a parking lot, peddling “real counterfeit goods” — fake designer sunglasses,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2021, I wrote an essay about the remarkable musicians who, amazingly, performed at my Kansas City high school in the sixties: the Crystals, the Drifters, Booker T. & the MG’s,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The circumstances of the death of actor Gene Hackman, who died at the age of ninety-five, remain unclear. On February 26, his body was found in his home in Santa Fe,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Any Oscars ceremony in which most of the major awards go to Anora and Brutalist, two strikingly profound and personal films that are a promising sign for an American independent film…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Growing up, I mostly watched ’90s blaxploitation horror films with some distance, sometimes spreading my fingers to provide visual context for the jarring sound. The films—Def by Temptation (1990), Candyman (1992),…