New York Press | Eric Kohn

Cartoon Courtnew

Chicago 10, Brett Morgen's highly original documentary about the Yippie massacre outside the Democratic National Convention of 1968, reminds us that this isn't the first time vivacity, rather than urgency, dictated activism.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 02-28-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Brett Morgen, Chicago 10

Dicing Up the Detailsnew

Ramin Bahrani discusses the finer points of Chop Shop.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 02-21-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani

Global Village Slaughterhousenew

In structure and content, The Signal plays out like a cautionary quasi-zombie comedy for screen addicts. The threat lurks on mangled television and radio signals, hence the inescapable doom.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 02-21-2008 | Reviews

Tags: David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry, The Signal

Finding Meaning in Romcom Fluffnew

Where The Hottie and the Nottie lingers on a mismatched relationship, Fool's Gold relies on the predictable twists of a remarriage comedy.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 02-07-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Tom Putnam, The Hotties and the Nottie

Strike Up the Bandnew

Pretty, resonant and utterly approachable as a gentle comedy, The Band's Visit is conventionally low key.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 02-07-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit

Chick Flick Goes Eastnew

If the gently amusing Lebanese romcom Caramel primarily intends to neutralize the mass media perception of its home country, then the deed is done.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-31-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Caramel, Nadine Labaki

Sundance Shufflenew

Everyone at the Sundance Film Festival this year agreed: It’s no easy task to tell a good story.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-31-2008 | Movies

'The Air I Breathe': Breathless Cyclenew

How many strangely paired actors does it take to ruin a movie?

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-24-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Jieho Lee, The Air I Breathe

Monster Movie Magicnew

Investigating the J.J. Abrams ploy behind Cloverfield.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves

Vagina Dentatanew

Indie horror grows hair on its back, teeth in its vag.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth

Retroactive Revelationnew

It's possible that the greatest horror filmmaker in movie history never cried "Action" on a set. That's because Val Lewton, whose name recalls RKO Pictures' creepiest outings of the 1940s, always served as producer and screenwriter, not director.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-10-2008 | TV

Tags: TV, TCM, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

The Need for New Scare Tacticsnew

Yet another boring J-horror translation proves we don't do horror right.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-10-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Eric Valette, One Missed Call

Inside the Mind of a Killernew

Factual consistency predicates the narrative in The Killing of John Lennon, but Andrew Piddington's re-creation of Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman's descent into murderous insanity is hardly a procedural investigation into psychological disarray.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-03-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Andrew Piddington, The Killing of John Lennon