Special advance screening: Thursday, September 28th at 7:00 PM at the Ritz Bourse We’re giving away passes to see special showings of the new Fox TV shows The Gifted and Ghosted before they […]
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Author: Ryan Silberstein
Ryan spends his days at a company named one of the best to work for in the Philadelphia area, and his nights as a mysterious caped vigilante saving his city from the disease that is crime watching movies. He lives on a diet consisting of film, comic books, experimental beer, black coffee, and those big metal historical markers around town. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
American Assassin review
American Assassin is a spectacularly dumb movie. There’s no reason to need to dress it up as anything more, but sadly, it is the kind of dumb that only barely […]
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Contest: American Made advance screening
Advance screening: Tuesday, September 26th at 7:30 PM at the Ritz East We’re giving away passes to see American Made before it comes out in theaters. To enter to win, send […]
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The 13 Best Batman: The Animated Series Episodes
Batman: The Animated Series is my favorite television show of all time. It combines superheroics with a deep sense of empathy and pathos, and captures it all with a deliberately timeless […]
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The Trip to Spain review
The Trip, as a franchise, is both surprising and unorthodox. First, who would have thought that two friends talking and goofing off while experiencing trendy restaurants would have this kind […]
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In a Theater Everyone Can Hear You Scream
Last night I had the pleasure of attending Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s Cinema Classics Seminar on Alien (there’s one on Aliens tonight!). I always enjoy a seminar at BMFI, which involves a pre-film lecture, […]
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Wind River review
Taylor Sheridan’s last two scripts, Sicario, and Hell or High Water are both films that aim to illustrate large social ills—drug cartels, economic disenfranchisement—via neo-Westerns about the nature of manhood. […]
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Logan Lucky review
Soderbergh is back, baby! Logan Lucky is the director’s first film since his “retirement” after 2013’s Behind the Candelabra made for HBO. Dropping out of film (but he directed every […]
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Contest: The Only Living Boy in New York advance screening
Advance screening: Monday, August 14th at 7:30 PM at the Ritz Bourse We’re giving away passes to see The Only Living Boy in New York before it comes out in theaters. […]
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John Denver is 2017’s Most Surprising Film Trend
Every year, I keep a running playlist in iTunes (leaving my expansive and long-gestating library of music would feel like too much of a betrayal to move to streaming music […]
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Person to Person review
I hate summer. It’s too hot, I’m too sweaty, and I never feel comfortable in my own skin. So I can’t decide if Person to Person, with its autumnal look […]
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