Alan is the education director for The LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project), a media literacy education non-profit serving nearly 1,000 youth, families, and educators across New York City.
Getting her start in films like “Gory Greek Gods” and SyFy classics like “Croc” and “The Hive,” talented actress Elizabeth Healey has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. This past year she starred in well received “Mum’s List,” the Marvel blockbuster “Doctor Strange” and the romantic dramedy “Across the River,”…
“Across the River” is a new movie that focuses on two ex-lovers who spend an afternoon together, exploring some unresolved emotions, as they walk and talk through the streets of London. The movie, director Warren B. Malone’s first full length feature, is a brisk 75 minutes buoyed by strong performances from its two lead actors…
The word that will be most often used to describe Across the River, a movie about two ex-lovers spending a few hours together on the streets of London, is small. We often use the word small these days to describe movies that don’t involve superheroes or CGI, what Siskel & Ebert used to refer to…
Some beautiful aerial photography of Napa Valley is the strongest asset of Decanted, a leisurely paced, reverent look at a handful of winemakers in that famous region of California. If you’re interested in how, or why, a person would start a winery in this competitive industry, then you may find something more to like in…
Well, that was upsetting. The new documentary, Blood on the Mountain, about the coal industry’s insidious and nefarious relationship with the people and land of West Virginia, is an investigation into the corporate and political cover-up of a history steeped in exploitation and suffering. It’s also an indictment of the communities willing to trade that…
All nations share the same basic story — us versus them. The oldest of narrative conflicts, that story has been fundamental in the process of nation building and it’s an inevitable necessity if you’re going to set-up and patrol borders. National identity has always been tied up in the need to think of your side…
Part family drama, part mystery, part slapstick comedy, and part mad-scientist movie, Men & Chicken is one of the most bizarre and original films I’ve seen. Writer and director Anders Thomas Jensen combines all those elements like a mad-scientist himself, conjuring up an absurd story full of grotesque characters, and translates it on-screen in an…
