Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized December 2019: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ ‘A Hidden Life,’ ‘In Fabric,’ and More – 12/5/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Winners from IDFA & British Independent Film Awards Unveiled, Sundance Nonfiction Grantees Announced & An Anti-List Manifesto – 12/2/19
• Monday Memo: IDA & Doc Society Sue the State Department + Awards Mania ~ IDA, Gotham, European Film Awards & More! – 12/9/19
Adam Lubitow –
• FILM | ‘Filmi Worlds’ – 11/20/19
• Mistletoe and Holly(wood) – 11/20/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized November 2019: ‘Waves,’ ‘Knives Out,’ ‘Marriage Story,’ and More – 11/1/19
Jeff Simon –
• What you should know about the original ‘Nightmare Alley’ – 11/6/19
• Books on Nichols, Stritch will make theater geeks delirious with joy – 11/8/19
• Jazz doesn’t merely live on records, it triumphs – 11/15/19
• Music and books: A steady stream of great stuff next to river of holiday commerce – 11/27/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC Opens Wednesday, special flash sale on select screenings; and more! – 11/4/19
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC Continues, Cinema Eye Unveiled 2020 Feature Nominees, Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows Announced & More! – 11/11/19
• Monday Memo: 2019 DOC NYC Award Winners, Grierson Award Winners, Oscar Race Submissions and More! – 11/18/19
• Monday Memo: The Paramount Decree of 1948 Reversed, the Arrival of the Streaming Era, an Award Season Update & Much More! – 11/25/19
M. Faust –
• More science than fiction: Anya – 10/31/19
Adam Lubitow –
• Film preview: Rochester Labor Film Series – 10/1/19
• Film preview: Witness Palestine Film Festival – 10/8/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized October 2019: ‘The Lighthouse,’ ‘Parasite,’ ‘Joker,’ and More – 10/3/19
Jeff Simon –
• The TV season is new, most of its ideas are not – 10/1/19
• Don’t invite Martin Scorsese to the next Marvel comic book movie – 10/8/19
• The constant pleasures of an impolite history of music – 10/15/19
• Ishmael Reed, ‘the purest literary troublemaker we currently have’ – 10/23/19
• An open letter to Rob Gronkowski – 10/25/19
• Finding awe in books as a kid – 10/29/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Robert Greene on a Decade of Radical Changes, Doclisboa Unveils ’19 Program and Kartemquin Reveals $90k in Funding for 12 New Projects – 10/7/19
• Monday Memo: IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists Revealed, DOC NYC 2019 Program Announced, Laura Poitras Steps Down From Field of Vision – 10/14/19
• Monday Memo: Critics’ Choice Doc Awards Noms, AFI Fest Launches Inaugural Doc Section, 20+ Alanis Obomsawin Now Streaming on NFB.ca – 10/21/19
• Monday Memo: Cinema Eye Honors, IDA Awards & IFP Gotham Awards Reveal Noms, Plus MoMA Reopens as The New Yorker Launches Web Series – 10/28/19
Adam Lubitow –
• Peter Bagrov named new curator at Eastman Moving Image Department – 9/10/19
• Film preview: ‘Projecting Our Voices’ – 9/17/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized September 2019: ‘Ad Astra,’ ‘IT Chapter Two,’ ‘The Death of Dick Long,’ and More – 9/4/19
Jeff Simon –
• A new guide on how to love classical music – 9/6/19
• New readers for a great critic, new listeners for a singer-songwriter – 9/13/19
• The Times reporters who dynamited the #MeToo floodgates – 9/14/19
• Is country music better than ‘Country Music?’ – 9/17/19
• An imperfect, but invaluable biography of literary titan Susan Sontag – 9/25/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Doc Box Office Is Art House Lifeline, Telluride Lineup, Filmmaker Mag’s 25 New Faces + – 9/2/19
• Monday Memo: Robert Frank & Daniel Johnston Die, Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners, and Reports from TIFF & Camden – 9/16/19
• Monday Memo: 2019 Grierson Awards Nominees, Wiseman to be Honored at 2019 Critics’ Choice & Kent Jones to Exit NYFF – 9/23/19
• Monday Memo: Lisa Valencia-Svensson on Diversity & Representation in Docs, 35 Years of IDA Documentary Awards, DOC NYC Short Lists & More! – 9/30/19
Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Powers Past ‘The Lion King’ in Latest Fast and Furious Chapter – 8/4/19
• Box Office: ‘Good Boys’ Ends R-Rated Comedy Drought, ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Drifts to Second – 8/18/19
• Box Office: ‘Angel Has Fallen’ Rises with $21M Opening in Late Summer Weekend – 8/25/19
• Netflix’s ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,’ ‘Stranger Things 3’ and the Summer of Nostalgia – 8/30/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized August 2019: ‘The Nightingale,’ ‘La Flor,’ ‘Genesis,’ and More – 8/2/19
Matthew Passantnio –
• Awards: Can Terrence Malick Find His Way Back to the Oscars With ‘A Hidden Life?’ – 8/21/19
• Circuit Q&A: Who Is Your Favorite Venice Film Festival Alumni? – 8/23/19
• Awards: Will the Best Picture Winner Play at Telluride This Year? – 8/27/19
• Circuit Q&A: What Was Your Favorite Movie of the Summer? – 8/30/19
Christopher Schobert –
• Six of WNY’s must-visits for kids – 8/9/19
• Buffalo Film Seminars brings Mitchum, Mel Brooks, ‘Moulin Rouge’ to Amherst Theatre – 8/20/19
• Fattey Beer Co. is a chilled-out craft beer destination – 8/26/19
Jeff Simon –
• Why did America let TV take over presidential elections? – 8/1/19
• They call it ‘The lost Miles Davis record’ – 8/5/19
• A return to Woodstock with Dale Anderson, Jeff Simon and Jeff Miers – 8/9/19
• The creative new ‘sisterhood’ of Channel 2’s ‘Most Buffalo’ – 8/9/19
• Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock’s greatest mythologist – 8/15/19
• The perfect storm that was ‘The Natural,’ and hopes it could happen again – 8/28/19
• Ken Burns on ‘Country Music,’ Emily Nussbaum’s collection of TV series reviews – 8/30/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Direct Cinema Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker Dead at 94 – 8/5/19
• Monday Memo: IFC Center Announces Craft Ed. Seminars, 2019 TIFF Docs Revealed & iPic Entertainment Files Chapter 11 – 8/12/19
• Monday Memo: Independent Lens Drop Fall Lineup, The Obamas’ First Film Coming Soon & Camden’s 2019 Slate Announced – 8/19/19
• Monday Memo: #200 – 8/23/19
M. Faust –
• Screwing with people’s heads a little: An interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic – 7/23/19
Adam Lubitow –
• Film: reflecting on Rutger Hauer’s work – 7/26/19
• FILM | “Wally Got Wasted” Screening and Q&A – 7/31/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized July 2019: ‘Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood,’ ‘Midsommar,’ ‘The Farewell,’ and More – 7/5/19
Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home,’ ‘Toy Story 4’ Hold Off ‘Crawl’ and ‘Stuber’ – 7/15/19
• Box Office: Disney’s Lion King Spells End for Harry Potter Record, ‘Endgame’ Dethrones ‘Avatar’ – 7/22/19
• Box Office: Disney’s ‘Lion King’ Hits $350M, Career-High ‘Hollywood’ Shines Bright for Tarantino – 7/29/19
Matthew Passantino –
• Top 5 Movies of 2019, So Far Movie Review – 7/1/19
• Top 10: Underrated Performances from 1999 – 7/14/19
Christopher Schobert –
• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Making ‘Alien,’ Chantal Akerman, Analyzing ‘Peterloo’ & More – 7/10/19
• Playtime has arrived: A family guide to Canalside’s Explore & More – 7/18/19
• Great Lakes Christian Film Fest is an outlet for faith-based projects – 7/30/19
Jeff Simon –
• Ideal books for summer’s short bursts of attention – 7/2/19
• Tanks, flyovers and a big, fat, inadvertent laugh – 7/5/19
• ‘Mad’ was satire you could bring home to show mom – 7/11/19
• If your TV isn’t fired up on Sunday nights, when is it? – 7/12/19
• Provocative film sheds light on Marshawn Lynch’s history of silence – 7/17/19
• Chappaquiddick- The 50th anniversary that’s painful to remember – 7/19/19
• ‘Big Little Lies’ finally showed us why you hire Meryl Streep – 7/22/19
• In world full of opinions, where are fresh ones? – 7/29/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Threats to Press Freedom, Exhibitors Speak Out & John Cooper Announces Departure From Sundance – 7/01/19
• Monday Memo: New Academy Members, Doclisboa Co-Director Heads to Sheffield & DOC NYC Expands For 10th Anniversary – 7/08/19
• Monday Memo: Doc Engagement Creating Space for Change, Alamo Drafthouse to Revive Video Store, and New Senses of Cinema – 7/15/19
• Monday Memo: Mental Health in the Doc Industry, 71st Emmy Nominees & Martin Bell’s Restored Street Docs Return – 7/22/19
• Monday Memo: POV Shorts Season 2, News & Doc Emmy Noms, Grierson Awards Short List & More – 7/29/19
Adam Lubitow –
• We’re past the ‘Endgame’ now – 6/5/19
Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ Wins Weekend Battle Over ‘Rocketman,’ ‘Ma’ – 6/2/19
• 15 Years Later, ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ Remains Wizarding World’s Best – 6/4/19
• Box Office: ‘Men in Black: International’ Continues Sequel Summer Slump with $28.5M Debut – 6/17/19
• Box Office: Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 4’ Debuts with $118M as Fourth-Biggest Animated Opener – 6/23/19
• Box Office: ‘Toy Story 4’ Tops Second Weekend of Doll Mania Over ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ – 6/30/19
• 15 Years Later, Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ Ranks as Marvel’s Greatest Superhero Sequel – 6/30/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized June 2019: ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco,’ ‘Our Time,’ ‘The Chambermaid,’ and More – 6/7/19
David Palmer –
• The Best (and Worst) of 2019 Movies So Far – 6/30/19
Matthew Passantino –
• What Is Your Favorite Hitchcock Scene? – 6/16/19
Christopher Schobert –
• Extra Points: Jobs, Buffett … Keanu? Why the ‘John Wick’ Star Should Be Your Business Role Model – 6/28/19
Jeff Simon –
• I’ll take ‘Truth without Math,’ Alex – 6/7/19
• Two Buffalo institutions collaborate on bang-up movie book – 6/14/19
• Sunday peak TV’s bad boys Vs. empowered women – 6/14/19
• Return of Christine Baranski corrects three-year mistake – 6/19/19
• Pauline Kael roars back in readers’ memories – 6/21/19
• The 21st century vocabulary for abuse – 6/25/19
• This weekend’s ‘The Loudest Voice’ on Showtime begins with a bang – 6/28/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40, Schmeer Fellowship’s Diversity in the Edit Room Program & LEAVING NEVERLAND Wins in Court – 6/3/19
• Monday Memo: YouTube Controversy, Sheffield Doc/Fest Previews, Pride Month Cinematic Celebrations & More – 6/10/19
• Monday Memo: Scorsese’s ROLLING THUNDER REVUE Drops, Docs As Ads, Realities of True Crime Docs & More! – 6/17/19
• Monday Memo: Will Cinema Survive The Future? + Streaming Fatigue, AFI Docs, and a Wang Bing Dossier – 6/24/19
Adam Lubitow –
• Sharing rarities – 5/1/19
• Preview: The Reel Mind Theatre and Film Series – 5/10/19
Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Tops $600M Domestic, Sinks ‘Titanic,’ ‘Star Wars’ Worldwide – 5/5/19
• Box Office: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Dethrones ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Detective Pikachu’ Battles for 2nd – 5/13/19
• Box Office: ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ Hits Franchise-High $57M, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Topples ‘Avatar’ – 5/19/19
• Box Office: Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Flies High Over Memorial Day, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Tops $800M – 5/27/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized May 2019: ‘The Souvenir,’ ‘John Wick: Chapter 3,’ ‘The Third Wife,’ and More – 5/3/19
Matthew Passantino –
• Circuit Q&A – What’s the Best Palme d’Or Winner Since 2000? – 5/21/19
• Circuit Q&A – What’s Your Favorite Performance From a Musical Biopic? – 5/28/19
Christopher Scobert –
• A geek must-list for kids: ‘Star Wars’ Night, Spidey and more – 5/16/19
• Wildlife sanctuaries to explore with the family – 5/17/19
Jeff Simon –
• A springtime eruption of grandeur between book covers – 5/6/19
• An open letter to CBS News’ big shots – 5/9/19
• Old-school action movies are a guilty pleasure now – 5/10/19
• As dramatic as May finale season gets – 5/16/19
• Tim Conway, the last of TV’s supremely gifted skit demolitionists – 5/20/19
• It was a TV series finale week for the ages – 5/21/19
• Great cast, crew unite behind Milch in ‘Deadwood’ – 5/30/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: The Doc Biz Financial Divide, Dronepocalypse & Sheila Nevins’ Big Move to MTV – 5/13/19
• Monday Memo: TELL NO ONE Shakes Up Poland, New Execs at Kartemquin & Film Independent, Sheffield Doc/Fest & AFI DOCS Lineups – 5/20/19
Adam Lubitow –
• Film | “Sicily: Land of Love & Strife” – 4/3/19
• Preview: Salam Film Series – 4/19/19
• Film preview: ‘The Exploits of Elaine’ – 4/23/19
Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Shazam!’ Rises to $53M, ‘Pet Sematary’ Remake Stays Alive with $25M – 4/7/19
• Box Office: ‘Shazam!’ Powers Past Newcomers, ‘Little,’ ‘Hellboy’ and ‘Missing Link’ – 4/14/19
• Box Office: ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ Takes Easter Weekend, ‘Captain Marvel’ Tops $400M – 4/21/19
• Box Office: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Annihilates ‘Infinity War,’ ‘Force Awakens Records with $350M – 4/29/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized April 2019: ‘High Life,’ ‘Her Smell,’ ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’ and More – 4/5/19
David Palmer –
• 2019 Summer Box Office Predictions – 4/20/19
Christopher Schobert –
• Locally shot suspense-thriller ‘Photographs’ to premiere at Aurora Theatre – 4/9/19
Matthew Passantino –
• Circuit Q&A – What’s Your Favorite Movie Turning 25 This May? – 4/30/19
Christopher Schobert –
• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: The Best Movie Year Ever, Orson Welles, Sam Peckinpah & More – 4/17/19
• ‘Avengers’ screenwriter Christopher Markus returns home for Q&A, ‘Endgame’ screening – 4/30/19
Jeff Simon –
• An all-star birthday party for Joni Mitchell and others – 4/4/19
• Relive Woodstock 50 years after the fact, minus the mud – 4/12/19
• The Trump story we need, and won’t get, in Howard Stern’s book – 4/15/19
• TV games on Thrones, Wall Street and Broadway – 4/23/19
• James Holzhauer, the contestant who took the fun out of ‘Jeopardy’ – 4/27/19
• When voters and audiences give way to ‘fans’ – 4/30/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Remembering Agnès Varda, CPH:DOX Award Winners & Thoughts on PBS’s ‘Women, War & Peace II’ – 4/1/19
• Monday Memo: Spring 2019 Pure Nonfiction Lineup, Full Frame Award Winners & 90th Issue of Senses of Cinema Released – 4/8/19
• Monday Memo: Peabody Nominees, Newly Announced Follow Focus Grant & Disney+ Streaming Service – 4/15/19
• Monday Memo: Peabody Award Winners, Cannes Lineup, Climate Story Lab & POV Spark Announced – 4/22/19
• Monday Memo: THE JINX Back In The Spotlight As Tribeca & Hot Docs Kick Off – 4/29/19
M. Faust –
• Frost/Nixon at the Irish Classical Theatre – 3/6/19
Adam Lubitow –
• Film preview: ‘Cat Video Fest 2019’ – 3/8/19
Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Soars Again Over Tyler Perry’s Madea Finale – 3/3/19
• Box Office: ‘Captain Marvel’ Dominates 2019 with a Higher Further Faster $153M Opening – 3/10/19
• Box Office: ‘Captain Marvel’ Remains Miles Ahead of ‘Five Feet Apart,’ ‘Wonder Park’ – 3/17/19
Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized March 2019: ‘Us,’ ‘Transit,’ ‘Black Mother,’ and More – 3/1/19
• ‘Giant Little Ones’ Director Keith Behrman on Defying Labels and Finding Authenticity in Adolescence – 3/2/19
George Sax –
• Angels in America at Second Generation Theatre – 3/13/19
Christopher Schobert –
• Road Trip / Toronto for families – March 2019 Buffalo Spree
• Let’s roll, Buffalo: Queen City Roller Girls skate to a milestone – 3/28/19
• Meet the faces of Queen City Roller Girls – 3/28/19
Jeff Simon –
• Jeff Simon’s List of the BPO’s Best Recordings – 3/7/19
• BPO’s New Record of Respighi Works Is a Beauty – 3/7/19
•: TMZ gets to the real heart of R. Kelly/Gayle King interview – 3/14/19
• ‘Billions’ gets language and ego to do what ‘Game of Thrones’ does with slaughter and nudity – 3/15/19
• Why I think we shouldn’t permit mass murderers anonymity – 3/19/19
• Jeff Simon’s thoughts on network TV’s crime fantasies, while considering J. Edgar Hoover – 3/26/19
• A ‘sandwich from hell’ made me miss Anthony Bourdain even more – 3/26/19
• The final seven satiric blasts from ‘Veep’ – 3/29/19
Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: New Doc Development Opportunities, Post-Sundance Doc Distro Report, and Lineup Announcements from Tribeca & Hot Docs – 3/11/19
• Monday Memo: Barbara Hammer Dead at 79, POV Announces 32nd Season & New Streaming Service OVID.tv Launch Date Set – 3/18/19
• Monday Memo: Doc Focused OVID Launches, Means TV Announced & The D-Word Turns 20 – 3/25/19
