Movies from My Hometown: GOODFELLAS and the Queens-Nassau Borderlands
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
As far back as I can remember, I never wanted to be a gangster.
Athena Film Fest 2025: POWER ALLEY, SPACEWOMAN, and HOME COURT
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Here’s three films that I caught at this year’s Athena Film Festival to keep an eye out for.
STEP BACK, DOORS CLOSING is sweet, but not very filling
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Step Back, Doors Closing has a lot of lovely relationship pieces, but lacks substance.
ENDLESS CALLS FOR FAME remembers forgotten rock band friendship
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Endless Calls for Fame serves as a worthy, sentimental document to mark this point in the careers of these three artists, and the scene that birthed them.
Athena Film Fest 2025: WHO IN THE HELL IS REGINA JONES?, PAINT ME A ROAD OUT THERE, and MEXICO 86
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Here are three films I saw over the last two days of the fest.
Athena Film Fest: SATISFIED and WE WERE DANGEROUS
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Here’s two standout films I caught at this year’s Athena Film Festival.
Athena Film Fest Preview: WE WERE DANGEROUS, SPACEWOMAN and more
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I look forward to celebrating fifteen years of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College beginning March 6 until 9.
1999’s COMPENSATION feels more relevant and timely than ever
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Zeinabu irene Davis’s film provides myriad antidotes to the present social illnesses.
Underneath EXTREMELY UNIQUE DYNAMIC's meta schtick is a sweet movie about masc friendship
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
While billed as “the first ever meta-Asian-stoner-bromantic-coming-of-age dramedy,” the film’s best moments are when it’s sticking to its core elements of masc bonding and friendship, growing up together and then growing apart.
Grotesqueries Week: From raining Gollums to big gorilla-wolf MFers: The villains of ATTACK THE BLOCK
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
|There are few films I’ve been an evangelist for more than Attack the Block.
WAITING FOR DALI reaches for freedom from structure
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Waiting for Dalí, thankfully, has soul, while telling a story of an El Bulli-esque restaurant and its wildly eccentric restaurateur.
THE TUBA THIEVES builds an immersive sense of place
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Allison O’Daniel’s piece is an atmospheric piece on sound, music, and d/Deaf culture within and beyond these spheres.
Athena Film Festival: Q, IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?, YOUR FAT FRIEND, and BREAKING THE NEWS
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Four more films from the Athena Film Festival.
2024 Athena Film Festival: GIRL, TWICE COLONIZED, DANCING QUEEN, FANCY DANCE
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Here’s the ares some of the flicks I saw on Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon.
COPA 71 shines a light on buried history of women's soccer (football)
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I'm not alone in my wonderment seeing the historical footage found in Copa 71.
Athena Film Festival 2024 Preview
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
It’s another weekend celebrating feminism and women in leadership on film in Morningside Heights this weekend, as the Athena Film Festival returns for another year at Barnard College.
GOLDEN YEARS shows how we can cope with change at any stage of our lives
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
Golden Years, if not a revolutionary piece of film, is at least a movie with a relatively radical ethos.
VESELKA: THE RAINBOW ON THE CORNER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD shares a Ukrainian immigrant story
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
While the film starts in medias res, eleven days into the war in Veselka’s crowded basement kitchen, the film takes a broad look at Veselka’s place in the history of Little Ukraine and the East Village.
DRIFT is a deeply emotional two-hander about life in the margins
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
The trauma of Drift shouldn’t define it, as ultimately it’s a film about intimacy cutting through fear and precarity, and how the kindness of strangers need not come with strings attached.
ELIS & TOM (It had to be you) is a meandering music doc
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
The film works when it’s tracking the two artists’ paths to, and their time in, the studio.