(3.16) Oscar nominated feature documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty largely responsible for the opioid epidemic’s unfathomable death toll. The film relates the photographer’s struggle with OxyContin and her protest against the art establishment that took money …
Movie fans should head over to the Avon and check out this year’s Oscar nominated short subjects. They will be screened in the three categories: Animated, Live Action, and Documentary. The New York Times reviewer was not thrilled with the live action entries, “Fans of sticky sentiment will be delighted with this bundle of live-action …
(3.9) People are going absolutely bonkers for this movie, with the common plea that everyone should only see it in a real movie theater on a big screen. Set during the British Raj of the 1920s, this is a fictitious story about two legendary heroes who fight bad guys and save children in peril. From …
The annual Providence Children’s Film Festival kicks off Friday with animated, live action, and documentary films from around the world. You can sort through the Film Directory by age, film type, and film category. Many of these are all-ages. There will even be a screening of the 1954 Jules Verne classic, “20,000 Leagues Under the …
If some of today’s Oscar nominated movie titles were unfamiliar to you, you are not alone. Fortunately, Tom Weyman, director of programming over at the Columbus Theatre, is on the job. The theater has been screening more movies lately, and he has several of these lesser-known titles in the pipeline. This weekend on Friday, (1/27) …
Today’s weather may not be conducive to taking that long walk we all thought about yesterday, but it’s perfect for the movies. The Avon Cinema has some great choices, playing now through December 1st. “Tár”: Cate Blanchett plays the fictional Lydia Tár, considered the greatest living conductor-composer of her time. We meet Tár at the …
(11.8) It’s aughts nostalgia time. “Meet Me in the Bathroom” — an immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s — will play for one night only this Tuesday at the Columbus Theatre. Archival footage, with new audio commentary, features the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Moldy Peaches, TV on the …
(10.29) See the movie that inspired a 7-year-old Guillermo del Toro. Head over to the mall this Saturday afternoon for a good old-fashioned creature double feature: “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” from 1954, followed by the Claude Rains version of “Phantom of the Opera.” Total running time: 3 hours, 2 minutes. Del Toro spoke …
(10.10) And what better place to celebrate nineties nostalgia and seasonal horror than the mall. To that end, Fathom Events will be hosting four screenings this long weekend in honor of the 25th anniversary of “Scream 2” (yes, you are that old). I may not be a slasher movie aficionado, but Janet Maslin has never …
Attention lava lovers: “Fire of Love” tells the tale of volcanologists in love, and (spoiler alert) it does not end well. Or . . . it kind of ends perfectly. Insulated jumpsuits notwithstanding, they were certainly pushing their luck. Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very …
Hooray! A movie that tackles the evil scheme that is (was?) the unpaid internship* and illuminates the particular economic headwinds endured by the millennial cohort. But “Emily the Criminal” also functions as an entertaining thriller, with the irresistible Aubrey Plaza in the title role. The New York Times has given it a very favorable review: …
The Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), the largest public film festival in New England, kicks off Tuesday night at the Providence Showcase with a mix of shorts — live action, documentary, animation, color, drama, musical, comedy, Canada — and barrels along through Sunday, August 14, when a variety of films will be screened at …
(7.13) Head over to Dusk Wednesday night for the Motif Horror Film Screening series. The evening starts with live performances by Aquaria and Eclectic Electric. Motif Film Screening showing short foreign, animated, documentary, fictional films and more! This month’s focus is on horror as we partner with Necronomicon! Food and Freshly popped popcorn offered. Sit …
Home of the Fighting Puritans? I don’t think so. The Moses Brown School is famously home to the delightfully perverse Fighting Quakers. (I got your gentle persuasion right here.)* The new trailer for ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ opens with this trio walking under an arch on the Moses Brown campus. (The overlay here is a fuzzy …
Director Terence Davies explores the turbulent life of First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon, in ‘Benediction’ playing at the Avon Cinema now through June 23. Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War, and was decorated for his bravery, but who became a vocal critic of the …
(6.15) Lunch! These faces can only truly be appreciated on the big screen and here’s your chance.* Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Robert Aldrich’s 1962 grandes dames guignol, “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane” with two screenings at the Providence mall cinema. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star as two aging sisters — both former …