UpDocs, Upstate Film’s weeklong series of great documentaries, May 18-24
It’s hard to beat Hollywood movie fare when you’re feeling burnt out and looking for a little light, escapist entertainment. But at other times, many of us want something to see that exercises…
Rhinebeck’s Devin Pickering & the tale of the YouTube chorus
Rhinebeck’s Devin Pickering is the editor of a new documentary called Once in a Lullaby, which is premiering at the TriBeCa Film Festival on April 29. The film, which he also hopes to…
The Cabin in the Woods may be final word in teen slasher movies
Just a few weeks back, while reviewing The Hunger Games, Your Humble Correspondent swore up and down that I detest gore and always give slasher movies a wide berth. Well, I guess that…
Film examines cancer survivor’s quest to track carcinogens
The famous quote “We all live downstream” seems to be attributed most often to Japanese-Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki, best-known as the host of the long-running CBC-TV newsmagazine The Nature of Things. It’s…
Angling for answers in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
There’s a hallowed Hollywood tradition that times of financial hardship are supposed to be Golden Ages for romantic comedy films. The Great Depression was the heyday of the classic screwball comedy, to cite…
Tobe Carey’s newest documentary, Sweet Violets
The white and purple flowers that will soon be proliferating in the woods, fields and yards of the mid-Hudson Valley were once an important part of the Dutchess County economy. Tobe Carey’s film…
Jeff Who Lives at Home is a slacker with a big heart
Despite the fact that the phenomenon of “boomerang kids” in their 20s coming back home to live with their parents after college has become ever-more-normal during the current recession, it’s still considered a…
Hunger Games succeeds, despite watered down anti-violence message
Who woulda thunk it? If, in spite of the departure of the inimitable Syd M last summer, you’re still reading the film reviews in Alm@nac, then you know by now that I’m a…
Rosendale to screen Gregory Bateson biopic and host Q&A with director Nora Bateson
The Ecology of Mind, a film by Nora Bateson, celebrates a person whose teaching and work in various academic and not-so-academic disciplines helped form the notion of a holistic Earth and the environment…
WFF to screen Our Idiot Brother with star Paul Rudd, producer & director on hand in Woodstock
The Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) will host a special one-time screening of the comedy Our Idiot Brother on May 5 at 3 p.m. at Upstate Films in Woodstock. The event will feature a question-and-answer session…
