From the moment that gentle giant Dave Bautista’s head fills its lushly verdant screen to its grey post-cataclysm finale, director and screenwriter M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin darkly plays on grand themes of spirituality, sacrifice, family ties and what it truly means to bring down life’s final curtain – all without one thing long essential to the filmmaker’s work: the big twist. Normally, a smart audience doesn’t want a magician to repeat his most highly regarded trick repeatedly so to not guess how the strings are held. Greatest hits are fine, but a career dedicated to the hooks ..read more

The mysterious, British street artist Banksy is a thing at Philadelphia Weekly and Paradise Media. An obsession you might say considering our wealth of features around an early-in-2022 exhibition that made stops at would-be, pop-up gallery spaces across the United States. For Winter 2022, there is the touring Banksy Was Here: The Unauthorized Exhibition, a tour whose stops have included New York City, Los Angeles, Brussels and Philadelphia’s Fashion District until the end of January 2023. Stenciled works painted and scribbled onto buildings, walls, and bridges worldwide, sculptures and make-sh ..read more

During a very recent conversation about playwright Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman with its Hedgerow Theatre Company’s cast – actors Sarah Stryker, James Kern, Daniel Romano and Stephen Patrick Smith – one consensus as to the brutal beauty of its words and images regarding a hyper-fiction writer being interrogated by over-guarded police about the gruesome content of his short stories and their uncanny connection to a series of bizarre, local child murders became clear: Martin McDonagh is the Irish Quentin Tarantino. That’s something I’ve heard in the past: of the darkly comic, hopeful cinemati ..read more

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A scarily dramatic and somewhat random story from a mother, for audience members who allow themselves to become “The Pregnant Dreamer;” for crowds seeking to “evade a curse on their unborn child by choosing their own path… unlocking secret knowledge and whispers of terror,” at a time when the crisis of Roe Vs Wade’s desecration of a woman’s bodily rights to abortion is paramount – all of this, inspired by author Maria Tatar’s research on the horror history of fairy tales, is at the heart of filmmaker and devised theater maker Josephine Decker’s newest staged work, The Path of Pins or The Path ..read more

On a grey, overcast Labor Day Monday in Germantown, the wry, sly BanksyLand exhibition at Rittenhouse Filmworks is filling up quickly for yet another hourly round of tour talking, stencil sighting, graffiti gawking and visitors playing witness to that which they’ve only heard tell – the work of someone they believe to be a working-class Brit whose claims to fame are usually hidden from view as soon as the artist tags them. As the BanksyLand live show (subtitled Unauthorized and Unmasked, The World’s Largest Touring Bansky exhibition) won’t hit any where near a traditionally huge art markets su ..read more