Juno (105th to 42nd Street)

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‘Selma’: Resolving the Dilemma Between a Great Motion Picture and Culturally-Relevant One

In 1993, Denzel Washington was nominated for an Academy Award based on his lead role in Malcolm X. Washington lost that year, to Al Pacino (for Scent of a Woman), and in the wake of it, Director Spike Lee went … Read More

Moving On: A Faustian Bargain (AKA Those Wildwood Nights)

The night ended with “See Ya Later, Alligator.” The night always ended with “See Ya Later, Alligator,” as originally recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets. It was 4:45, and all the bottom-shelf liquor had inevitably risen from 50 cents … Read MoreRead More

IFB’s Top 10 Movies of January, 2014 to January, 2015

Please Note: None of these movies was originally released during January of 2014 or January of 2015. 10. Selma Despite several highly questionable casting, screenplay, and directorial choices, do not avert your eyes. This country’s history of ignorance – in … Read More

IFB’s Top 10 Posts of 2014

8 Actors Who Are Likely to Appear In All Your Favorite Movies Throughout The Next Decade Moving On: A Murder on Park Boulevard Why Boardwalk Empire Has Always Been Extremely Good, But Never Great Ranking the Women in Don Draper’s … Read More

Good Pictures/Bad Camera: The Very Best of 2014

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Moving On: A Dime & A Dream

It began as a series of dots, each of them free-falling toward earth, a static shroud of gray behind. There was music, rounds of clapping, clasping hands despite no sun. There was the buzz, and then the cut, of engines; … Read MoreRead More

John Cheever on The Old New York (1978)

“These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, … Read More

Nick Cave on The Power of Ideas (2014)

“All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes … Read More

UNTITLED (2014)

No, seriously.