‘Influence’: Film Review

British screen star Riz Ahmed draws on his side career as a rapper and musician in Mogul Mowgli, a semi-autobiographical drama that he co-wrote with New York-based director Bassam Tariq. Backed by multiple sources, including the BBC and Vice Studios, this Berlinale world premiere is thoughtfully crafted and thematically rich, even if it feels a little too opaquely personal in places.

The Fixx frontman Cy Curnin hasn't done a great deal of film work, and his last role, as God in an independent New York production, has not seen the light of day. But he was happy to be part of Pas de Deux, a ballet short whose trailer is premiering exclusively below.Pas de Deux features Curnin mock playing Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No.

Two years ago, Scots comedy star Daniel Sloss saw two of his specials, Dark and Jigsaw, released  in 190 counties and 26 languages on Netflix.

Two years ago, Scots comedy star Daniel Sloss saw two of his specials, Dark and Jigsaw, released  in 190 counties and 26 languages on Netflix.

A young secretary and aspiring writer's coming of age in the New York literary world of the 1990s is the subject of My Salinger Year, based on the successful 2014 memoir by Joanna Rakoff.French-Canadian writer-director Philippe Falardeau, whose Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for an Oscar and who also directed the Reese Witherspoon vehicle The Good Lie, tackles the material with more enthusiasm than efficiency, as his protagonist has to figure out what she wants out of life on both the

A cheap ploy to wring some theatrical dollars out of a franchise that has already enjoyed vastly more success than any sane person would've predicted, Chris Henchy's Impractical Jokers: The Movie contrives a New York-to-Miami road trip on which the TV series' four buddies do exactly what they do on the small screen: Coach each other through hidden-camera stunts that leave innocent bystanders flummoxed and the Jokers in stitches.

From the moment he read Joanna Rakoff’s memoir about literary New York, Philippe Falardeau knew his eighth movie, My Salinger Year, would be his first with a female protagonist."I’ve never been as excited about one of my films, because it’s told from a woman’s perspective," says the Quebec director, who rose to prominence with the Oscar-nominated classroom drama Monsieur Lazhar in 2011.Now Falardeau, 52, finds himself opening the Berlin Film Festival with this Margaret Qualley and Sigourney

With Parasite’s stunning best-picture Oscar win amid shifting industry trends, Eugene Hernandez senses the perfect moment to being named the new director of the New York Film Festival as it continues to introduce U.S.

The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will open with the world premiere of the documentary Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President, it was announced Monday (Feb. 17).

This Valentine's Day, there's certain to be the usual flood of candy and flowers. But at your local movie theater, there's something increasingly rare: A soulful and adult romantic drama in “The Photograph.”

By Bruce Haring

Michael Strahan is neither confirming nor denying the existence of a feud between him and his Live with Kelly and Michael co-host Kelly Ripa.

Nearly four years later, Michael Strahan, 48, is opening up about his abrupt departure from Live! With Kelly and Michael. Amid rumors that his and co-host Kelly Ripa‘s relationship was souring behind the scenes, Michael announced on air during an April 2016 episode that he would be leaving for Good Morning America — without telling Kelly first.

It's been nearly four years since Michael Strahan reportedly blindsided Kelly Ripa by abruptly exiting "Live! With Kelly and Michael" to begin a hosting gig at "Good Morning America."

Inventor Nikolai Tesla is more popular today than when he died penniless in a New York hotel in 1943. Back then, he was the futurist who swore he could summon unlimited, clean, wireless electromagnetic energy from the earth — a neat idea, but surely coal and oil were fine.

Brooklyn couple Su (Sunita Mani) and Jack (John Reynolds) have several plans to salvage their lives. Go vegetarian, plant a garden, make sourdough bread, and above all, quit the internet addiction that’s become their relationship’s third wheel, distracting them from make-outs and barging into their fights until Su yells, “Alexa stop!” To detox, the couple embarks on a phone-free week in upstate New York.

A knack for creepy atmospherics and individual scares goes a long way in the horror genre, and it takes “The Night House” pretty far. Though this tale of a new widow’s apparent haunting gets progressively lost in a narrative maze that’s complicated without being particularly rewarding, director David Bruckner suffuses the action with enough dread and unpleasant goosings to make this an above-average genre exercise.

Writer-director Radha Blank’s coming-of-age-in-your-40s tale is a love letter full of more love letters. It’s a love letter to the people of pre-gentrified Harlem (she’s a New York native), to old-school hip hop, to struggling artists, to young people with big dreams and to black women who dare to live life out of the box.