Author Archives: AaronOOF

I just find that I can’t get overexcited about Prime, The Legend of Zorro or The Weather Man. A new Weekly Movie Guide is up at Gothamist, and I’ll make the same suggestion here that I made over there: you should go see Paradise Now, which I saw and briefly reviewed during the New YorkContinue reading “ThE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW: DID SOMEBODY MENTION HALLOWEEN?”

I found an apartment. Yay! I’ll write about that more in another post when I have a bit more time. Right now, I wanted to shine my TCM-loving light on a week of don’t-miss programming: TCM’s 39 film tribute to Alfred Hitchcock! Starting tonight through Sunday, TCM is handing over every night of its programmingContinue reading “TCM WATCH: A WEEK OF HITCH TO CELEBRATE”

So as many of you know, I’ve been doing this little “Weekly Movie Guide” over at Gothamist every Thursday for, I don’t know, five or six weeks now? since Labor Day! (I didn’t realize it had been that long!) I put a lot of effort into it and it takes a while, but I kindContinue reading “SO I NEED SOME HELP (NO, NOT WITH APT OR JOB — WELL THAT TOO, BUT THAT’S NOT THE SUBJECT OF THIS POST)”

NINETEEN new releases in New York this weekend. That is an absurd number. Seven of them come from the major studios. That’s really bad news for Domino and Elizabethtown, neither of which did so well last week. But really — what’s the point? With that many new films, both big and small movies simply getContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW: MAYBE THERE ARE TOO MANY MOVIES BEING MADE”

Hi there. Yeah. Here I am. Been gone for a few weeks, I know. It hasn’t been anything deliberate. It’s just been that I’ve been living in this mini-personal Hell, and I guess I’m at one of the lower circles because I’ve had a very hard part getting out. I’ve had plenty to write aboutContinue reading “AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!! (THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TODAY’S GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW)”

At least it should be, and thank god. I’m exhausted. Not as much from covering the festival as from this ongoing painful apartment hunt. So painful that I can’t even talk about it right now. Maybe I’ll write another of those infrequent completely personal posts later. Or maybe not. All I know is I ranContinue reading “MORE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: THE PENULTIMATE POST”

I was supposed to be moving … well … today. That’s not happening. I might be moving next week; I will definitely be moving by the end of October. But either way, all that optimisim (not that there was so much of it) I expressed in my otherwise depressing birthday post pretty much got shotContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL POWELL) & MORE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL”

For a long time I have extolled the virtues of CBS’s The Amazing Race, which had its new season premiere last night. Before anyone jumps on me to say how the show sucks, while I wouldn’t go that far, I found last night’s first episode of this new series which for the first time isContinue reading ““THE BLACK FAMILY” — THEIR TITLE, NOT MINE”

The week has not particularly gotten any better. The apartment search is now running my life because the place that I wanted and thought I had a good chance of getting fell through, so I’m back to square one. Which sucks. A lot. In fact, because of needing to concentrate on finding a home, I’veContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 5 — TERENCE GRAY”

I came home between press screenings because I had to do a phoner for an interview I’m running on Gothamist this Wednesday. Now I have to run back out to the Walter Reade for the afternoon screening. I’m not packed, and in fact, I still don’t have a new apartment. YAY! But I do haveContinue reading “MORE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: NO TIME FOR CHATTER”