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Bryn Mawr Film Institute's memorable marquee. (Photo by Bart Everson via Creative Commons/Flickr.)

Bryn Mawr Film Institute and Philly's big-screen problem

Big screen blues

Bryn Mawr Film Institute gets new leadership, but Center City still doesn't have a first-rate repertory movie theater. Stephen Silver considers.

Stephen Silver

Jun 05, 2017 Articles 5 minute read

Jeongin Mun, a high-school student at the California School for the Deaf. (Photo courtesy of the Penn Museum.)

Penn Museum presents Mina T. Son's 'Making Noise in Silence'

At the intersection of immigration and deaf culture

The Penn Museum's Second Sunday Culture Film Series presented a Deaf Culture program, featuring Mina T. Son's 'Making Noise in Silence,' with a panel discussion of deaf culture and language. Brittany Barbato reviews.

Brittany Barbato

Feb 18, 2017 Articles 4 minute read

Holden, Holliday in 'Born Yesterday': Melania as Billie Dawn? (Photo by John Irving via Creative Commons/Flickr.)

Trump, through a Hollywood lens

From ‘Citizen Kane’ to 'Goodfellas’ with Donald Trump

How to explain the Trump phenomenon? You could do worse than to watch and reflect upon a few classic Hollywood films.

Dan Rottenberg

Jan 31, 2017 Articles 6 minute read

Jos Duncan's four-minute 'Black Magic: Black Lives Matter Musical' (Photo courtesy of Scribe Video Center)

Scribe Video Center's "Making Haiku into Short Films"

Poetry in Motion

Scribe Video Center brought in several prominent Philadelphia filmmakers (and poet Sonia Sanchez) for a workshop on experimental short film. A.D. Amorosi took a look.

A.D. Amorosi

Jan 28, 2017 Articles 2 minute read

One of several James McAvoys in Shyamalan's 'Split.' (Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures)

M. Night Shyamalan's 'Split'

The trouble with Kevin

In M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller, a man with 24 personalities kidnaps and imprisons three teen girls. Is it worth taking the time to meet them all? A.D. Amorosi reviews.

A.D. Amorosi

Jan 20, 2017 Articles 3 minute read

L to r: El Sawyer, William L. Goldsby, Kevin Shird, and Mitchell Chance. (Photo by Alaina Mabaso)

Ava DuVernay's '13th' at the African American Museum in Philadelphia

Haunted by the end of slavery

MLK weekend brought a special screening of Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’ to Philadelphia, along with a sobering and essential discussion with people affected by America’s racially biased incarceration epidemic. Alaina Mabaso was there.

Alaina Johns

Jan 17, 2017 Articles 5 minute read

L to r: Rossy de Palma as Marian and Adriana Ugarte as Earlier Julieta. (Photo by Manolo Pavón, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Pedro Almodóvar's 'Julieta'

Almodóvar gets serious

Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, 'Julieta,' marks a new, more somber phase in the auteur's career, but not everyone is happy about that change. Concha Alborg reviews.

Concha Alborg

Jan 10, 2017 Articles 3 minute read

There's more to Janet Leigh's 'Psycho' character than that scream. (Image by Alvaro Tapia via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Reconsidering Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho'

'Psycho's' better half

Norman Bates is not the best part of Hitchcock classic 'Psycho.' Watch Janet Leigh instead for the better parts of the story. Michael Woods considers.

Michael Woods

Jan 10, 2017 Articles 4 minute read

Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies'

Close encounters of the critical kind

Neil deGrasse Tyson hates scientific inaccuracies in film, so he put together a two-and-a-half hour PowerPoint presentation on the subject and took it on tour. Angela Harmon reviews.

Angela Harmon

Dec 04, 2016 Articles 5 minute read

Salon owner Van Hoang. (Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival)

Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival presents 'Painted Nails'

Engaging documentary still unpolished

This entry at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival examines the harmful ingredients in nail salon cosmetics and one woman who wants to see them changed. Brittany Barbato reviews.