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6 days ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes reviews of new documentaries about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1972 benefit concert (“One to One”), Neil Young’s latest solo tour (“Coastal”) and rock and pop drummers and their influences (“Count Me In”).
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1 week ago | 
playbill.com | Kevin Filipski
Since 2018, Lincoln Center’s Big Umbrella Festival has brought programming to its 16-acre campus that’s been created especially with neurodivergent audiences of all ages in mind. This season’s edition runs through April 20, and includes Los Trompos, an outdoor installation that will be open in Damrosch Park each weekend.
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3 weeks ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes films, new and old—new releases include the biopic “Audrey’s Children,” the dog pics “The Friend” and “Dogman,” the French dramas “Holy Cow,” “When Fall Is Coming” and “Rose,” and the Andy Kaufman doc “Thank You Very Much.” Vintage films include the return of the Oscar-winning “A Man and a Woman,” the provocative Japanese drama “The Oldest Profession” and the French dark comedy “Delicatessen.” This earnest biopic about Dr. Audrey Evans, a pioneer in researching...
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4 weeks ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes reviews of Steven Soderbergh’s latest, the spy thriller “Black Bag,” along with several other new releases in theaters, including two sci-fi dramas (“Ash” with Eiza González and “The Assessment” with Alicia Vikander) and the feel-good “Bob Trevino Likes It” with John Leguizamo.
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1 month ago | 
playbill.com | Kevin Filipski
Staging acclaimed, innovative productions across the U.K. and Europe for nearly a quarter-century, Boy Blue returns to Lincoln Center for the U.S. premiere of its latest work, Cycles, at the Rose Theater March 27–29.
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1 month ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes reviews of “Queen of the Ring,” a wrestling movie made by the son of the director of a famous boxing movie you may have heard of, in theaters; and 4K releases of the “Den of Thieves” sequel with Gerard Butler, the over-the-top Santa action flick, “Red One,” and the latest Blumhouse horror, “Wolf Man.” Mildred Burke, the first female wrestling superstar in the mid-20th century and the first female sports figure to earn a million dollars, is the focus of Ash...
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1 month ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes reviews of the Oscar-nominated drama “September 5,” the first UHD release of the Oscar-winning “Amadeus,” and new films that explore family dynamics, “Riff Raff” and “Ex-Husbands.”This tense slow-burn thriller recounts that awful day during the 1972 Munich Olympics when a group of Palestinian terrorists took several Israeli Olympic teammates and coaches hostage, culminating in all of their deaths after an airport shootout.
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1 month ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes a trio of new releases by major filmmakers, two of them quite disappointing (Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” and Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu”) and the other a welcome return to form (Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer”). Italian director Paolo Sorrentino returns with an exploration of youthful beauty in the form of a beautiful young woman named after a Greek siren, who turns heads—among other things—in her hometown of Naples (aka Parthenope).
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2 months ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes my reviews of the long-awaited documentary, “Becoming Led Zeppelin”; the endearing family drama by first-time director Alessandra Lacorazza, “In the Summers”; and a blurry study of a liberal family during the Nixon era, “Three Birthdays.” How a quartet of British musicians—guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones, drummer John Bonham and singer Robert Plant—got together to form one of the planet’s legendary rock bands is at the heart of Bernard MacMahon’s...
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2 months ago | 
staticmultimedia.com | Kevin Filipski
My latest roundup includes reviews of three of this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture (the Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” the bloated musical “Wicked” and the best of the bunch, “I’m Still Here”) along with Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort (“Juror #2”) and the return of one of Jean-Luc Godard’s most frivolous flicks (“A Woman Is a Woman”).
