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A Conversation with “Crumb Catcher” writer/director Chris Skotchdopole.
Episode 96 of EoM Presents finds EoM Contributor Andrew Eisenman sitting down with Crumb Catcher writer/director Chris Skotchdopole. In this 12-minute conversation, the pair discuss a myriad of elements in the two years since the film originally released in theaters…. Read More ›
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A Conversation with “The Napa Boys” filmmakers Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman.
The writers and co-leads of indie sex-comedy The Napa Boys, Armen Weitzman and Nick Corirossi (who also directs), sit down with EoM Contributor Andrew J. Eisenman to discuss the success of the film’s comedic premise. The imagined 4th entry in… Read More ›
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“The Napa Boys” fictional franchise is as hilarious as its premise sounds when spoken out loud.
Some films aspire to greatness, and some films find it thrust upon them. And then there are The Napa Boys, a group of young-middle-aged-sex-has-beens who have inherited a straight-to-DVD-franchise from maybe-not-their-parents. The Napa Boys is a great movie about the… Read More ›
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“One Night Only” asks why we ignore romance.
One Night Only is the first film to capture the daily sacrament of ambiguity and self-hate called “Hinge.” It’s a crowd-pleasing rom-com that spends less than 30 seconds on a dating app. Instead, Monica Barbaro (At Midnight; A Complete Unknown)… Read More ›
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“The Samurai and the Prisoner” traps itself.
Things are not going great — globally and locally. Upheaval is in the air, and we’re all waiting to see when it will come down. In 1578, the same could be said for the feuding Samurai lords of Japan, and… Read More ›
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“Hearts of Darkness: The Art of Eleanor Coppola” takes you behind the behind-the-scenes.
Eleanor Coppola, Polly Platt (The Last Picture Show; Targets), and Marsha Lucas (Taxi Driver; Star Wars), the Producer Wives of New Hollywood, were members of a generation of artists whose levels of talent we have not seen repeated until recently… Read More ›
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“Genealogy” stands the test of time at Lincoln Center.
Lincoln Center in New York is once again programming a series of rare Koreans film for Asian American Appreciation Month. This year it’s Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever: The 1970’s. Among them is Genealogy (1979), also known as The Family Pedigree… Read More ›
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“Moneyball” is a masterpiece created in the aggregate; now in 4K UHD.
“Re-create it in the aggregate” is one of the great lines of dialogue about art’s favorite hero, the underdog. Culture is full of underdog stories, but Moneyball (2011), now available on 4K, is the rare entry about what happens next…. Read More ›
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“Resurrection” is the can’t-miss Criterion of the year.
“The day the world almost ended at 8 p.m., a tree fell down. No one heard it, but later I saw it.” – Andrew J. Eisenman No one knows what to do with the film spoken of as “Bi Gan’s… Read More ›
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“Hamlet” is a fun shadow play of its own ambition.
Times are so tough that even Hamlet no longer dreams of shadows. Instead, as Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal; Bait) says of the Prince he dreamt his whole life of playing “Hamlet is someone who is grieving the illusion that… Read More ›
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“Reminders of Him” makes it work.
Reminders of Him is a needlessly self-conscious film. Like the Nicholas Sparks canon before this Colleen Hoover wave (It Ends with Us; Forgetting You), the film plays melodrama as grounded drama, which often drives stray target-audience members, like unaware boyfriends,… Read More ›
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“A Little Prayer” is a big treat on Blu-ray.
I arrived in the city of Winston-Salem last year at the same time as A Little Prayer, one of the best films of 2025, and a film about the people here. It was a real local sensation, going on an… Read More ›
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“The Man Who Wasn’t There” has its day in court via a new 4K UHD restoration from The Criterion Collection.
What happens when a reliable man decides to become unreliable? Should he be held to account? Who’s to say? The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) is finally getting its day in court, entering the Criterion Collection on February 24th, 2026…. Read More ›
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“Magellan:” Everything is Magellan now.
In the opening shot of Magellan (2025), an Indigenous Malaysian woman walks into a stream, filling a vessel. Suddenly, she spots a white man past the fourth wall of the proscenium and takes off running. She shouts through her village… Read More ›
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Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” gets a boost to 4K UHD as it enters The Criterion Collection
Life is like a dyad-god, both finite and infinite. Your life is finite because it ends, but Life goes on regardless of how you live yours. Few things narrow as quickly as the infinite possibilities of a newborn’s life, except… Read More ›
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“The Voice of Hind Rajab” masterfully utilizes subtle dramatization to portray the real experiences of those who try to save lives in Gaza.
When the world first stopped to hear the voice of Hind Rajab, the little girl from Gaza hiding from bullets in her family’s car, Kaouther Ben Hania was standing frozen in the airport. Now, she’s delivered a masterpiece that asks… Read More ›
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A Conversation with “The Voice of Hind Rajab” director Kaouther Ben Hania.
EoM Contributor Andrew J. Eisenman recently spoke with filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania about her latest film, The Voice of Hind Rajab. They discuss where Kaouther was when she first heard about Hind Rajab, making a film about helplessness, how to… Read More ›
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“Wicked: For Good” stays too close to the source material to gain any real altitude.
It’s common wisdom that all the good songs of Wicked (2003) are in the first half. But if the majority of songs in the anti-fascist melodrama of Act 2 were as silly and energetic as “Dancing Through Life,” the whole… Read More ›
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Boxing movie “Christy” polishes everything about Christy Martin’s story to a bland finish.
It is not impossible for a white, male director to tell great stories about identities they do not share. This year, PTA directed One Battle After Another (2025); two years ago, Scorsese delivered a masterpiece in Killers of the Flower… Read More ›
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“31 Candles” illuminates male loneliness.
“Have you talked to [Redacted] lately” is a question that many mothers love to haunt their single children with. “What about [Redacted],” “I just ran into [Redacted] at the grocery store,” “[Redacted] was at church today,” or, as kicks off… Read More ›