In 2015, A'Ziah “Zola” King wrote a Twitter thread that stretched over 148 tweets and chronicled her whirlwind self-described “hoe-trip.” She and a fellow stripper by the name of Jessica visited Florida along with Jessica’s boyfriend and her pimp. The trip ended with murder, attempted suicide, and thousands of dollars in cash, all of which…
The Tribeca Film Festival, taking place in various parts of downtown New York from April 15-26, holds its own as a festival known for its documentaries, its happenings in the surrounding Tribeca area, and its appreciation of women directors with the Nora Ephron Prize. Featuring some 100 feature films, with 67 of them premiers, this…
Perhaps just reading the title of this article will intrigue you, as it did when I found out that Ewan McGregor was to play both Jesus and the Devil in a film shot by Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men, The Tree of Life), one of the best cinematographers out there right now. The film opens with…
Michael Almereyda’s seventh film at Sundance, Experimenter, is a film that asks more questions than answers them. As Almereyda (2001’s Hamlet, Trance) stated before the film began, Stanley Milgram, the film’s biopic subject, was “better at asking questions than answering them.” The film does exactly the same by asking questions, but on the surface. In the vein of films…
Callan McAuliffe, the 19-year-old Australian actor from such films as the 2013 hit The Great Gatsby, Rob Reiner’s Flipped, and sci-fi flick I Am Number Four, has mapped an unconventional road to success, and it started in a definitively unglamorous way: “I wanted to buy a dog and I didn’t have any pocket money.” This…
