New York City

Bitter Sugar

By Alan Ng | March 2021

Malik Isasis’ Bitter Sugar is the story of two women from Tunisia with very different stories and perspectives on living in New York as…

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Malik Isasis' Bitter Sugar is the story of two women from Tunisia with very different stories and perspectives on living in New York as part of the...

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It's 1975, and there's a serial killer loose on the streets of New York in Nancy Menagh's short film, Victim No. 6. Donna (Heather Brittain O'Scanlon) is...

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In Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, "a pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an...

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NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2020 REVIEW! I have lived in NYC for going on 13 years. Okay, I live in Ridgewood, Queens but whatever, it still counts because...

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I’m of the age where I amassed a decent vinyl (Baba Booey) collection in my youth, an even bigger tape collection, and an insane amount of CDs. I...

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New York City holds a very special place in my heart. I spent a couple of weeks there a few years ago, and it wasn't enough to capture all of its beauty,...

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TRIBECA 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! The short film, Tall Tales with True Queens, begs to be a feature-length film. The subject matter has all of the ear...

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It might sound incongruous, but writer-director Michael Irish’s Permanent Collection is a breezy drama. Neil (James Scott Patterson) is a perpetually...

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New York City has always been a great place to be if you're in the market for repertory cinema. There are many theaters playing wonderful retrospectives...

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Actor Alex Wolff (Hereditary) puts his best foot forward with his debut feature The Cat and the Moon. Wolff plays Nick, a Detroit native who arrives on the...

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