Movies

Easy Rider celebrates 50th with a screening at Radio City Music Hall

Easy Rider, the iconic film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, roars into Radio City Music Hall on Friday, September 20th to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The film released in 1969, was one of the very first independent movies and was...

Review: In The Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11

Poster courtesy of HBO I was ten years old on September 11th, 2001. It was a big day of firsts for me. It was, for example, the first time that I experienced a feeling of unreality surrounding an unbelievable moment. I was, however, very young and 130 miles away,...

Film Review: I’m Leaving Now Finds a New Story of Undocumented America

I'm Leaving Now Four hundred years ago we were introduced to Don Quixote, an adventurer who fled the mundane world for imagined battles with wizards and giants. From the opening of “I’m Leaving Now,” it is clear that directors Lindsey Cordero and Armando Croda see...
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