“You hurt people; it’s just what you do.” Those are the spiteful but honest words from a war photojournalist’s daughter in Jane Weinstock’s new feature length film, The Moment, currently featured in the 2013...

In Enid Zentelis’ small town saga about addiction and co-dependency between a mother and daughter, we’ve got all the makings of a highly combustible situation. Fay, a single mother comforting a grown daughter...

What happens when a stray bluebird doesn’t leave the cold woods of Northern Maine for warmer climes? Plenty; according to writer-director Lance Edmands, that “little mistake of nature has enormous consequences”...

“I’m just a little guy, I can’t do anything,” apes Dr. Mathilde Krim, the pioneering research scientist who was one of the first to tackle HIV/AIDS. Describing the thinking of the vast majority of the public...

Some struggles never grow old and the tug of war between father and son is one of the oldest. In Ramin Bahrani’s new film, At Any Price, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, and starring actors Dennis Quaid and...

Was Bert Stern a lover of women? Yes. Was he a seducer? Yes. And was he a madman? If you take Shannah Laumeister’s appellation for him in her new documentary, Bert Stern, Original Mad Man as a double-entendre,...

A placard over the entryway to The Museum of Modern Art’s arresting exhibit, Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, contains a statement from Wassily Kandinsky, one of the key figures in the art world to change the way we...

Most theatergoers have a passing acquaintance with Anton Chekhov’s characters — that interminably suffering lot of 19th century Russian aristocrats and the even quirkier peasant folk that attend to their angst....

David “Chim” (pronounced shim, from his surname Szymin) Seymour was born on November 20, 1911 in Warsaw, Poland to parents of Polish-Jewish descent. Forty-five years later, killed while covering the Suez Canal...

Try concocting a story around a corporate military base in Iraq, dabbling into torture as a means of retrieving information, add a young first-time-out ingénue as interrogator, an intractable administrator and at...