Former L.A. Laker Kobe Bryant brings to life his nearly 2-year-old farewell letter to basketball. Much like his b-ball endeavors, Black Mamba doesn’t hold back in the production of this six-minute cinematic saga featuring the works of legendary animator, Glen Keane and composer John Williams. The well-executed short, DEAR BASKETBALL premiered during the Tribeca Film Festival.” “As a 6-year-old boy, […]
Song It’s almost dinnertime at my favorite Park Slope eatery – Song. At 6:45pm only 8 of the 30 tables are filled with patrons – vigorously scoffing down warm rice bowls and steaming noodle dishes with wooden chopsticks. Tealight candles flicker on every table, softly illuminating the faces of hungry diners, and vintage chandeliers brighten the eclectic decor. The medium […]
Students at Hunter College expressed concern last week over a potential referendum proposing budget cuts to the college’s student-run clubs and media publications. “We literally just found out about this this past weekend,” said Raven Hicks, 22, a senior and staff member of Hunter’s literary and arts magazine, The Olivetree Review. The referendum, initiated by student government president Matthew LoCastro, […]
FILM REVIEWS, NEWYORKFILMFEST54, NYC FILM FESTIVALS 13TH Film Review, 54th New York Film Festival by admin • December 5, 2016 • 0 Comments By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 Once again, Ava DuVernay Executive Producer of the resounding SELMA, leads us through a sensitive but powerful cinematic voyage, this time, detailing the big business of mass incarceration and its menacing of American Civil Liberties, especially the harmful […]
Kadia Goba Reviews STARLESS DREAMS, HRW Film Fest Screening Release Date for Human Rights Watch Film Festival: June 10, 2016 Award-winning Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter Mehrdad Oskouei shows us a specific take on the lives of some misguided Iranian teenage girls in this documentary. Their experiences seem similar to victimized teens in the Western world and perhaps that was […]
A review of a new documentary, The Witness. The latest look into the infamous Kitty Genovese’s murder, highlighting some of the false narratives discovered by her younger brother, William Genovese.