Mr NYC

Okay, so this isn't a regular review, it's more of an anecdote: I took my kid to the "Dan & Phil: Hard Launch" show in...

I'm happy to say that my life has been so busy lately that I haven't been able to watch much television. However, after returning fr...

Late last year a small film came and went that didn't get a lot of fanfare but is actually really good. Called Is This Thing On? , it...

Over the years I've enjoyed posting short reviews of movies and TV shows about New Yorkers who travel far from the city and get into wil...

Let me be honest: The Rocky Horror Show is not really my kind of show. I've seen the movie, and enjoyed it, but let's just say that...

Recently I came upon an article in the Hollywood Reporter listing 47 iconic movie and TV sites in NYC. Read it here . (Why it's not an ...

Well this is certainly a Mr NYC first: I'm reviewing a current Broadway show that I had previously blogged about as being a historical c...

As a young, overeducated man who grew up with lots of books in the house, I will confess that I had literary pretensions. I dreamed about wr...

The world of NYC real estate is cut-throat and, in the new Netflix series The Beast In Me , it's both metaphorical and literal. The plot...

The news that Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman is getting her second divorce made my mind race back to the early 2000s when she divorced ...

I'm really digging the series House of Guinness about the infamous Irish brewery dynasty. It's set in the 1860s, and it's a King...

If you can ever call a movie nothing more than an expression of pure joy, it'd have to be the 1982 classic My Favorite Year . It's i...

Few filmmakers capture the life and spirit of NYC like Spike Lee . He's been making movies for forty years and he makes movies like no o...

In the mid-1990s two very different NYC-related movies graced movie and television screens that, looking back, seem truly bizarre that they ...

The subject of immigration has been a political hot topic for years, decades, now. It's a paradox: America is a country built by immigra...

Flying home from Paris one of the in-flight movie options was, naturally,  Julie & Julia from 2009. This comedy is a dual bio-pic about...

Of the fifty-something movies that Woody Allen has made over half-century, some are great classics, some are really good, some are just okay...

A few years back I reviewed a batch of movies about New Yorkers who travel far from the city and get into all kinds of crazy adventures.  B...

There aren't many movies these days like Anora so when a gem like this comes along, you must embrace it. Anora is a reminder that movi...

If there was ever a movie that epitomized the idea of a scary NYC-at-night hellscape, then it's The Warriors . Released in 1979 and dire...