One of the most insightful movies ever made about movies, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) had former silent film star Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a turbaned…
Read more Review: In a Revived ‘Sunset Blvd.’ Norma Desmond Is a Doll – with Pussycat Claws – The Village VoiceThe Voice has been covering New York’s Comic Con since its debut, in 2006. The event occupied a small slice of the Javits Center and was so…
Read more Comic Con 2024: The Pop-Cult Smorgasbord Goes On – The Village VoiceBack in the days of all-girl dorms, my friends and I often passed around a copy of Playgirl. Immersed in feminism, we had no problem feeling as empowered…
Read more Raise a Glass in the Village to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Playgirl Magazine – The Village VoiceHow do you sell the presidency to voters? New York–based artists Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have posed this question for decades, compiling footage from more than 70…
Read more The Shilling of the Presidency – One TV Ad at a Time – The Village VoiceWe lucky New Yorkers get a boost in stretching out those last days of perhaps the most fun season (barring wildfires, floods, etc.) from SummerStage, in Central…
Read more Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka Shake Central Park’s SummerStage – The Village VoiceA contemporary film reviewer’s most brutal challenge: taking on an origin-story biopic about him — He Who Shall Not Be Named — four weeks before Election Day…
Read more Review: ‘The Apprentice’ Blames Trumpism on a Dead Lawyer – The Village VoiceA bro-comedy director, a Method-y actor, and a pop star walk into a bar — and that’s as close to a joke as you’ll get with Joker:…
Read more Review: Despite the Moldy Tunes, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Is Not Your Father’s Nihilism – The Village VoiceYou could be forgiven for thinking initially that the new German film The Universal Theory, with its epic Alpine vastness, sweeping historical milieu, and heady quantum mechanics…
Read more Review: ‘The Universal Theory’ Suffers From Observer Effect – The Village VoiceA look-at-me bid for outrageousness that fairly oozes with unironic vanity, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance does whatever it can to make news: weenie-roast Hollywood’s swinging-dick youth-lust, strip…
Read more Review: ‘The Substance’ Focuses on Surfaces – Both Smooth and Wrinkled – The Village VoiceAnd so it comes to pass that the Sundance indie generation of filmmakers, now mostly in their reflective 50s, have sometimes taken to limning their own rosily…
Read more Review: ‘The 4:30 Movie’ Is Too Little, Too Late – The Village VoiceTo paraphrase the late Dave Hickey — one-time Austin art dealer, Nashville lyricist, Art in America editor, roving music scribe, and Nevada-based MacArthur genius — I am…
Read more Who’s Afraid of Dave Hickey? Rereading ‘The Invisible Dragon,’ Three Decades Later – The Village VoiceIt’s a sweltering Monday afternoon when Richard Lange walks into El Compadre, a cavernous, dimly lit Mexican restaurant decorated with Christmas lights, rustic paintings, and wrought-iron chandeliers.…
Read more Richard Lange’s New Novel Gives the Losers Some Love – The Village Voice
