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BRYAN REESMAN’S QUEUED UP

July 1, 2020

Veteran writer Bryan Reesman has you covered with his monthly round up of new releases and hidden gems available via home video and streaming. ONE SHOT AT GLORY It’s hard to make a film that can ... Read More...

Queued Up – Examining The Best Of The Old And New

Bryan Reesman

September 27, 2017

Columns

WONDER WOMAN (2017) The set-up: After her people's once isolated island sanctuary is beset by German invaders during WWI, Amazonian Princess Diana of Themyscira (Gal Gadot) journeys with American Major S... Read More...

Queued Up: “Sleight”, “Stormy Monday”, “A Shock To The System” and More!

Bryan Reesman

August 30, 2017

Columns

SLEIGHT (2017) The set-up: Resorting to drug peddling to help raise his younger sister following their parents' deaths, a young magician named Bo (Jacob Latimore) starts getting in too deep with an incre... Read More...

Queued Up: ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Colossal,’ ‘They Live By Night’ and More

Bryan Reesman

August 9, 2017

Columns

KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) The set-up: It's the end of the Vietnam War, and Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) is itching for one more mission. Boy, does he get one—a “geological survey” (led by ... Read More...

Queued Up: ‘The Lego Batman Movie,’ ‘XX,’ ‘Logan,’ and More

Bryan Reesman

July 12, 2017

Columns

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017) The set-up: Despite being the cowl with the scowl who triumphs over Gotham City’s criminal element, narcissistic Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) is a lonely individual without... Read More...

Queued Up: ‘Get Out,’ ‘Tunnel,’ ‘Tower,’ and More

Bryan Reesman

May 31, 2017

Columns

GET OUT (2017) The set-up: African-American photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) journeys outside of NYC to visit the wealthy, secluded suburban family of his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Al... Read More...

Queued Up: ‘Hidden Figures,’ ‘The House That Screamed,’ House: Two Stories,’ And More

Bryan Reesman

April 26, 2017

Columns

HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) The set-up: As America falls behind the Russians in the Space Race of the early 1960s, three African-American women—genius human computer Katherine Goble (targeting trajectories for... Read More...

Queued Up: ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them,’ ‘Silence,’ ‘Doctor Strange,’ and More

Bryan Reesman

April 5, 2017

Columns

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (2016) The set-up: Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a young British wizard and collector of fantastic beasts, arrives in New York in 1926 to seek out another oddit... Read More...

John Waters’ Filthy World: An Interview With John Waters

Bryan Reesman

March 29, 2017

Interviews

John Waters, the subversive auteur from Baltimore who brought us bad taste cinema like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, along with the endearing retro musicals Hairspray and Cry-Baby, is also an actor, au... Read More...

Queued Up: ‘Love Wolf And Cub,’ ‘Arrival,’ ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth,’ and More

Bryan Reesman

February 22, 2017

Columns

LONE WOLF AND CUB (1972-74) The set-up: After his wife is killed by the venomous Yagyū clan that usurps his role as local Shogunate Executioner, a masterless ronin named Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama) ... Read More...

The Allman Betts Band—Keep On Growing

The Dictators’ Andy Shernoff: “Every Day You Make Music Is A Good Day”

Eric Hutchinson “Jazz” Album on Birth, Love, Death and Fatherhood

Rightfield Are Putting Arkansas On The Map

HOT ROCKS: New Releases from Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Liam Gallagher, DIO, and Sepultura

STEVE EARLE/CITY WINERY NYC/APRIL 14, 2021

PINC LOUDS RETURN TO TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK AFTER A WINTER OF WOODSHEDDING

JORMA KAUKONEN/CITY WINERY NYC/APRIL 21, 2021

Queued Up: Exploring the World of Bong Joon-Ho ('Parasite'), plus 'Doctor Sleep,' 'The Siren,' 'Scandalous,' 'Untouchable,' and more.

REALITY CHECK: THE NOT-SO CURIOUS CASE OF LIZ CHENEY

Reality Check: BIDEN AT THE CENTURY MARK

Reality Check: LOW BAR ANOMALY

BRYAN REESMAN’S QUEUED UP

Queued Up – Examining The Best Of The Old And New

Queued Up: “Sleight”, “Stormy Monday”, “A Shock To The System” and More!

Queued Up: ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Colossal,’ ‘They Live By Night’ and More

Queued Up: ‘The Lego Batman Movie,’ ‘XX,’ ‘Logan,’ and More

Queued Up: ‘Get Out,’ ‘Tunnel,’ ‘Tower,’ and More

Queued Up: ‘Hidden Figures,’ ‘The House That Screamed,’ House: Two Stories,’ And More

Queued Up: ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them,’ ‘Silence,’ ‘Doctor Strange,’ and More

John Waters’ Filthy World: An Interview With John Waters

Queued Up: ‘Love Wolf And Cub,’ ‘Arrival,’ ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth,’ and More

#THROWBACK: R.E.M., OCTOBER 14, 1987

Spotlight: The Return of Bamboozle

REALITY CHECK: THE NOT-SO CURIOUS CASE OF LIZ CHENEY

The Dictators’ Andy Shernoff: “Every Day You Make Music Is A Good Day”

Eric Hutchinson “Jazz” Album on Birth, Love, Death and Fatherhood

Rightfield Are Putting Arkansas On The Map

Spotlight: The Return of Bamboozle

REALITY CHECK: THE NOT-SO CURIOUS CASE OF LIZ CHENEY

The Dictators’ Andy Shernoff: “Every Day You Make Music Is A Good Day”

Eric Hutchinson “Jazz” Album on Birth, Love, Death and Fatherhood

Rightfield Are Putting Arkansas On The Map

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