Joseph Neff

3 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Joseph Neff

Ron Delsener Presents, the new documentary by Jake Sumner, makes it abundantly clear that the focus of its profile was once ubiquitous on the New York City entertainment scene. In painting such an in-depth portrait of Delsener, the film also sheds light on how the business of putting on a show has changed from the high-energy maneuvering of wheeler-dealers to the impersonal corporate world of mergers and spreadsheets.

3 weeks ago | timesunion.com | Joseph Neff

ALBANY — When he took the witness stand in federal court on March 17 in Albany, Michael McCallion was nervous. He had waited three years for this moment, for a chance to hold accountable the men he said brutally assaulted him.  He told the jury that in 2020, a group of correction officers had beaten him in a New York prison near the Canadian border, breaking four of his ribs. After McCallion filed a complaint about the assault, he said two other officers beat him further and ruptured an eardrum.

4 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Joseph Neff

It’s difficult to think of a currently working director more deserving of the “auteur” designation than Wes Anderson. In a recent turn toward layered, borderline-labyrinthine narratives and heightened formal precision, his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, further cements the singularity of this filmmaker’s artistic vision.

1 month ago | spectrumculture.com | Joseph Neff

As the star of the Netflix sketch comedy program I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson excels at wringing laughs from social awkwardness, specializing in discomfort that borders on, and more frequently, tips over into the ridiculous. Furthermore, the character’s predicaments often stem from a dearth of self-awareness and an inability to keep a bad situation from worsening. Occasionally, the carnage gets exacerbated by a twisted sense of self-righteousness. Hostility is common.

1 month ago | gothamist.com | Joseph Neff |Alysia Santo

When New York corrections officers attack prisoners in infirmaries — as has happened dozens of times in the past 15 years — it is nurses who must document and treat the resulting injuries. Their choices can save lives or cover up abuse.