The premise might sound like a riff on “Collateral,” but “The Accidental Getaway Driver” is no ticking clock thriller. Sing J. Lee’s quiet, big-hearted debut feature is steeped in the sorrow and yearning of its Vietnamese American characters as they work through the lingering trauma of displacement while living in Southern California. One late night … Read more
In the Hindi-language film “Superboys of Malegaon,” a wedding videographer named Nasir (Adarsh Gourav) dreams of making movies that will transform his brother’s video parlor in the western Indian city of Malegaon into a movie theater, packed like the one across the street. For this fool’s errand, he enlists his closest friends. A love letter … Read more
‘Drunk Black History’ Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. at Littlefield, 635 Sackett Street, Brooklyn; littlefieldnyc.com. Derek Waters had an epiphany: Alcohol can make history more interesting and funnier. So in 2007 he created “Drunk History” by plying his friends with liquor, recording them as they channeled their inner Jon Meachams and having comedians re-enact the … Read more
The prospect of an animated movie about sloths introduces an invigorating challenge. What’s the best way to spin a comedic children’s story about the slowest-moving mammals on Earth? Sid, the central sloth in the “Ice Age” franchise, is slow of wit but swift in body, while “Zootopia” installed its sloth, Flash, as an unhurried employee … Read more
To tell the story of Katharine Graham, who led The Washington Post during a pivotal period for the paper and the nation, the sibling filmmakers George and Teddy Kunhardt use a standard approach, interweaving archival material with talking-head interviews. The result is a conventional documentary, and by all means an admiring one. But her story … Read more
“$10,000 reward given for returned painting,” it read. The company’s directors, Ian Peck and Terence Doran, responded with a $30 million lawsuit in September in which they accused Ms. Mugrabi of engaging in “an unlawful campaign of intimidation and falsely and maliciously defaming them.” In an affidavit, Mr. Peck said their company was forced to … Read more
Onstage at Smoke in late January, the all-star septet the Cookers were surging into high gear. The catalyst: their drummer, Billy Hart, who stirred up rhythmic eddies and punched out stinging cymbal accents while fixing the saxophonist Azar Lawrence with an eager, heat-of-battle grin. On “Just,” a new album by Hart’s own long-running quartet, out … Read more
There’s a lot to be said for a chilly book, which can be suitably evocative in the dead of winter. But with much of the United States trudging through seemingly endless weeks of gray skies and frigid temperatures, with only faint glimmers of relief in sight, sometimes you just need an escape. As you wait … Read more
FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten, the subject of a major retrospective opening this month at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1962, as a student at Cooper Union, he became one of the first artists to settle below Canal Street, at an address on the corner of … Read more
Since 1982, the pair (and occasionally their brother Mario) have published their own comics, and, save for a few short stories, Jaime’s have always focused on the people of Hoppers, a barrio in a California town called Huerta. It’s not exactly the brothers’ native Oxnard, but it’s not exactly not Oxnard, either.