Crowdfunding Watch: Tobocman’s ‘War in the Neighborhood’ is a masterpiece...
A new edition of Seth Tobocman's War in the Neighborhood will bring this powerful story of 90s NYC real estate wars back into print.
View ArticleExploring Climate Change & Migrant Detention in Sophie Yanow, Iona Fox and...
What is a Glacier by Sophie Yanow, Almanac 2017, by Iona Fox & Undocumented, The Architecture of Migrant Detention* by Tings Chak. I read these three comics in the days leading up to President...
View ArticleThe first AD ASTRA trailer fires Brad Pitt off into space
James Gray, the filmmaker behind such underrated films as We Own The Night and The Lost City of Z, is about to send Brad Pitt off into far reaches of space with his newest effort Ad Astra. His latest,...
View ArticleAD ASTRA: Brad Pitt goes looking for Daddy in space in latest trailer and poster
There’s a lot of anticipation for James Gray‘s next movie Ad Astra, not only among the cinephiles that have appreciated the filmmaker’s previous filmography but also science fiction fans who are eager...
View ArticleStudio Coffee Run 8/23/19: More Disney speculation post Sony/Spider-Man...
Hopefully, you’ve already checked out Josh Hilinger’s fantastic SCR entry this past Tuesday, but as we go into the weekend, there’s a lot of stuff to talk about, and unfortunately, most of it involves...
View ArticleBox Office Preview – Can DOWNTON ABBEY hold off Brad Pitt’s AD ASTRA and...
Welcome back to the Beat’s weekly Box Office Preview! This is going to be one of the tougher weekends to predict, because there are three new movies, each with their own strengths and weaknesses that...
View ArticleReview: AD ASTRA channels the best of sci-fi greats
Ad Astra is one of those movies you’ll immediately begin comparing to other films when you walk out. For me, those comparisons were favorable: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, Mad Max: Fury Road,...
View ArticleBox Office: DOWNTON ABBEY shows that PBS fans are more rabid than Brad Pitt...
Box Office: DOWNTON ABBEY shows that PBS fans are more rabid than Brad Pitt and Rambo stans Welcome to the Beat’s weekly Weekend Box Office Recap! There was once a thought that TV shows were TV shows...
View ArticleBox Office: ABOMINABLE is the #1 movie… and the best way to describe its...
Box Office: ABOMINABLE is the #1 movie… and the best way to describe its opening weekend Welcome to the Beat’s weekly Weekend Box Office Recap! The last weekend of September was a bit of a let-down...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Michael Gingold on preserving newspaper horror ads with AD NAUSEUM II
Long-term projects have such a mythic sense to them. It’s not just about the final product but also about the creation process, how everything was collected put together. Michael Gingold’s Ad Nauseum...
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