Ian Kimble and Ruby Modine at the Philadelphia Film Festival Premiere of "Dead Giveaway." Ruby Modine & Ian Kimble It’s Just a Dead Giveaway by Jay S. Jacobs Don’t you hate it when this happens? You’re out on a Friday night. You hit a few bars, and maybe a party. You have a bit too much to drink. Or maybe a lot too much to drink. Or maybe you literally recreate Marion Ravenwood’s shots-drinking contest scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.  You wake up the next morning, still ful

Floating Carousel FLOATING CAROUSEL (2025) Starring Lucy Powers, Delilah Napier, Gus Birney, Michael Cyril Creighton, Jessica Hecht, Dylan Baker, Julian Cihi, Reg Rogers, Elsie Hewitt, Geneva Carr, Catherine Curtin, Jon Rudnitsky, Matt Walker, Brittany Bradford, Sean Grandillo, Ruby McCollister, Sam Vartholomeos, Aaron Serotsky, Charles Justo, Nate Richman, Caroline Baniewicz and Joe Penczak. Screenplay by Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers. Directed by Delilah Napier and Lucy Po

Good Fortune GOOD FORTUNE (2025) Starring Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh, Sherry Cola,  Joe Mande, Stephen McKinley Henderson,   Blanca Araceli, Aditya Geddada, Alexander Jo, Kristen Henley, Shoukath Ansari, Erik Estrada, Wil Sylvince, Michael Arnold, Cam Barr, Addie Weyrich, Cari Shayne, Nena Woolworth, Nate Jackson, Jesus Garcia and Penny Johnson Jerald. Screenplay by Aziz Ansari. Directed by Aziz Ansari. Distributed by Lionsgate. 94 minutes.

Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers Lucy Powers & Delilah Napier   Riding the Floating Carousel By Jay S. Jacobs It all started with some bad dates. Lucy Powers and Delilah Napier, long-time friends and collaborators who have made the indie films Voyeur, “The Compound” and “ Victor vs. the Metaverse” together, found the inspiration for their latest feature film when they both went on the same bad date with the same guy, just a week apart. They weren’t alone. All of their friends w

Real Estate, Trace Mountains, Matt Maltese  & Cornelia Murr – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – October 8, 2025 Photos by Cecilia Orlando © 2025. All rights reserved.

THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 (2025) Starring Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, David Ajala, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Hannah Waddingham, David Morrissey, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh, Pippa Bennett-Warner, John Macmillan, Paul Kaye, Amanda Collin, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Charles Craddock, Ayò Owóyemi-Peters, Síofra Ní Éilí, Holly Godliman and Kasper Hilton-Hille. Screenplay by Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse and Simon Stone. Directed by Simon Stone. Distributed

[L-R] Bill Condon, Jennifer Lopez and Tonatiuh attend the KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN New York premiere. Credit: Jason Crowley/BFA Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, Tonatiuh & Bill Condon Dancing With the Spider Woman By Jay S. Jacobs When Hollywood is adapting a hit Broadway musical (or making an original), chances are the first name on their speed dial is Bill Condon. Condon wrote and/or directed such popular movie musicals as Chicago, DreamGirls , the live-action version of Beauty

AFTER THE HUNT (2025) Starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny, Lío Mehiel, Ariyan Kassam,...

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (2025) Starring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez, Tony Dovolani, Josefina Scaglione, Bruno Bichir, Aline Mayagoitia, Kevin Michael Brennan, Thomas Canestraro, Eduardo Ramos, David Turner, Lynn Favin, Odain Watson, Lucila Gandolfo, Federico Repetto, Lucas Barreiro, Augusto Gordillo, Fabio Aste, Graciela Daniele, Federico Salles and Alejandro Ernesto Balbis Ortiz. Screenplay by Bill Condon. Directed by Bill Condon. Distributed by Roadside Attraction

Animate! Philadelphia GalaxyCon's Animate Comes to Philadelphia “Go big or go home” is typically the basis of the majority of comic conventions we see today. Most utilize huge convention centers and show an overwhelming number of activities at once. While there is nothing wrong with this approach, Animate! by GalaxyCon, the self-proclaimed largest geek culture convention organization in North America, brought an “animation celebration” to the Philly suburbs from October 3-5,

Tim Daly in Dust to Malibu Tim Daly Dust in the Wind By Ronald Sklar "It's essentially a family story — specifically about a father,"...

ARE WE GOOD? (2025) Featuring Marc Maron, Nate Bargatze, W. Kamau Bell, Bill Burr, David Cross, Gary Gulman, Sarah Rose Hyland, Rick...

ANEMONE (2025) Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green, Sid Akbar, Lewis Ian Bray,...

Philadelphia’s Historic Franklin Square Halloween Celebration is a Hole in One The Halloween spirit has reached Philadelphia’s historic...

THE SMASHING MACHINE (2025) Starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, Oleksandr Usyk, Lyndsey Gavin, Satoshi Ishii,...

Shaun Cassidy – Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA – September 25, 2025 – Photo by Deborah Wagner © 2025 Shaun Cassidy – Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA – September 25, 2025 “Well I was 16 and sick of school. I didn’t know what I wanted to do…” Even though Eric Carmen wrote those words, they were telling Shaun Cassidy’s story. They opened the song “That’s Rock and Roll” which is one of a few songs which Cassidy rode to the top of the charts in the late 1970s. In fact, when Shaun C

Eleanor the Great ELEANOR THE GREAT (2025) Starring June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Jessica Hecht, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rita Zohar, Will Price,...

Animate! Philadelphia Premieres October 3rd-5th, 2025   Celebration of all things animation to be held at the Greater Philadelphia Expo...

One Battle After Another ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana...

Weezer – Riot Fest (Day 2) – Douglass Park – Chicago, IL – September 20, 2025 – Photo by Ryan Heller © 2025 Riot Fest – Douglass Park – Chicago, IL – September 19-21, 2025 Riot Fest Rings in 20th Anniversary with Legendary Performances and Its Largest Lineup Yet For many years, punks near and far have flocked to Riot Fest in an effort to relive their glory days, as well as keep their finger on the pulse of alternative music. A three-day sonic escape for fans of punk rock, met