Last week, we reviewed Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a sprawling, imaginative ecological fable about embattled people living in the fast-disappearing Louisiana wetlands. In a mostly ...

A local documentary filmmaker created the movie behind one of the hottest films of the year starring one special little girl. Brooklyn-based Cameron Yates, a Culpeper native, generated "The Making of ...

Greenpoint playwright and screenwriter Lucy Alibar mines her childhood for the magical movie ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Nine years in Greenpoint but playwright and screenwriter Lucy Alibar still ...

Thanks again to my friend and colleague, Dr. Sandra Fenster, for another film review gem in the following post! As I watched Benh Zeitlin’s poetic, gorgeously filmed movie, I kept asking myself: who ...

Turns out the Commander-in-Chief is also “Critic-in-Chief.” Oprah Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday” program on OWN focused on the hit summer indie film Beasts of the Southern Wild because Barack Obama ...