Nitehawk Cinema

One of the best things about Brooklyn is that it can feel like a bunch of small towns right on top of each other, each one with its own character. We explore that dynamic this week, with an art crawl in East Williamsburg, a Taiwanese food crawl in Greenpoint, a benefit for Palestine in Bay…

Screen Time is a monthly listing of repertory film screenings in Brooklyn with movies your kids will love (or learn to).  One of the most important things to understand as a parent—at least within the realm of the great screen time conundrum that is now able to plague anyone with a child between the ages…

Halfway through Poetic Justice, John Singleton’s subversive 1993 rom-com, Tupac Shakur’s South Central LA postal service worker, Lucky, is out of the city, driving up the California coast from LA to Oakland, when the enticing smell of barbecue wafts into his mail truck. He pulls over with Regina King, Joe Torry, and his co-star Janet…

Starting this week in Brooklyn, Steven Soderbergh is launching yet another wildly unconventional and ambitious project in the world of cinema. Consensus-challenging work is nothing new for the director, who has made 29 movies since the year 2000, when one of the two films he was nominated for making in a calendar year netted him…

The word of this weekend is “eclectic,” and not just because we suddenly got some random old Wyclef songs stuck in our heads (though that certainly didn’t hurt). It’s because we’re bringing you a (*runs to thesaurus*) wide-ranging list of events. This weekend, you can see rare footage of James Baldwin, laugh at the legendary…

This is the final weekend before Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, so it’s time to get all your wild adventures out of the way before family time encroaches. To that end, we’ve gone heavy on the dance parties this week.  To start with, on Friday, check out the “End of Forever” party at Baby’s All Right….