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Count Basie Center for the Arts presents An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and screening of "Megalopolis"

(RED BANK, NJ) -- Legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders) is bringing his monumental 2024 film, Megalopolis, to select cities across the country. The tour kicks off at the Count Basie Center for the Arts on Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 7:00pm.





 



Yogi Berra Museum to Screen "Legends Remembered Live: A Tribute to Yogi Berra"

(LITTLE FALLS, NJ) -- /PRNewswire/ -- The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls will host a special tribute event, Legends Remembered Live: A Tribute to Yogi Berra, on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 2:00pm, honoring the life, legacy, and faith of one of baseball's most beloved figures.




The Williams Center to Screen "Wayward Kin" by David Joseph Volino

(RUTHERFORD, NJ) -- After a four-year-long production process, filmmaker and New Jersey native, David Joseph Volino, is sharing the full-length feature, Wayward Kin, with local audiences. See the film for one night only at The Williams Center in Rutherford on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. The screening begins at 7:00pm with the cast and crew in attendance.




New Release Review - "Echo Valley"

British director Michael Pearce made an impressive debut with this 2017 Channel Islands-set thriller Beast, helping to make a star of Jesse Buckley in the process. After an underwhelming sci-fi sojourn with 2021's Encounter, Pearce now returns to thriller territory with Echo Valley. If you've seen Max Ophuls' 1949 thriller The Reckless Moment or its 2001 Tilda Swinton-starring remake The Deep End, the premise of Echo Valley will prove familiar. Well, the first half at least. In its second half Echo Valley deviates off course, and it's at that point that it runs into trouble.




New Release Review - "Best Wishes To All"

Many short films are made as pitches for a potential feature film, and as such they tease an interesting concept while lacking the time to actually explore it in any detail. Working with co-writer Rumi Kakuta, director Yûta Shimotsu makes his feature debut, Best Wishes to All, by expanding his earlier short of the same name. While the feature length version develops the theme of the short, it never fully digs into what exactly it is it's trying to address. Viewers may be left frustrated by a rushed final act, but for fans of extreme Japanese horror, Shimotsu's debut is a must-see.











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Wicked

Wicked "Sing-A-Long" Film Screening

Sunday, June 22, 2025 @ 4:00pm
Algonquin Arts Theatre
60 Abe Voorhees, Manasquan, NJ 08736



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The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Popcorn & Pajamas Film Series

Friday, June 27, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC)
360 Hamilton Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065



The

The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Popcorn & Pajamas Film Series

Friday, June 27, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC)
360 Hamilton Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065



FREE

FREE SUMMER MOVIE: Despicable Me 4

Tuesday, July 01, 2025 @ 7:00pm
State Theatre New Jersey
15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



FREE

FREE SUMMER MOVIE: Despicable Me 4

Tuesday, July 01, 2025 @ 10:30am
State Theatre New Jersey
15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901










FEATURES


Tribeca Film Festival 2025 Review - "Inside"

Like the boxing movie, you might think the prison drama should have grown stale by now, and yet it continues to surprise. Inside, the feature debut of Cannes-winning writer/director Charles Williams, might have the least original title for a prison movie imaginable, but it uses its familiar setting in distinctive ways that almost reinvent the sub-genre.




Tribeca Film Festival 2025 Review - "Lemonade Blessing"

When it comes to coming-of-age comedies, the best ones of recent years have been centred on teenage girls (Lady Bird, The Edge of Seventeen, Eighth Grade et al) rather than their male counterparts. Comedies about teenage boys tend to portray them as one-dimensional horndogs whose only goal is to get laid before they graduate, whereas the female protagonists of such movies have far more complex concerns. It's a relief then to find that Lemonade Blessing is that rare teen comedy that offers us a well-rounded young male protagonist, one who isn't even all that bothered about losing his virginity.




Winners of the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Announced!

The Competition component of the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival has just concluded! Overall, we had a very good festival this year and I want to thank the hundreds of people who viewed the terrific films we screened in-person and online. I also want to thank all of the filmmakers, cast and crew who came to the in-person screenings to talk about their films with our audiences.




Moving feature Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman screens at the Summer 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, June 8th

Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman is a gripping and emotionally raw drama that follows a woman forced to make impossible choices. Written and directed by Kerry Ann Enright, the film centers on Mary (Tina Benko), a single mother left broke and emotionally wrecked after her controlling husband, John (Lev Gorn), is killed when the consequences of his lengthy criminal history finally catch up with him. With no job and no savings, Mary must suddenly figure out how to provide for her son alone.




Captivating doc Faces of Agata screens at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on Sunday, June 8!

Imagine waking up on a day like any other and being told you were going to die within two years, for Agata di Masternak this was her reality. Faces of Agata is an incredibly beautiful film following Agata as she undergoes countless surgeries in an attempt to cure a cavernous hemangioma in her cheek and jaw. Agata is an incredibly captivating subject, sharing vulnerable stories of living with the ever-present threat of death and wearing her heart on her sleeve as she discusses her fears, hopes, and frustrations with her situation.









 

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    EVENT PREVIEWS

    (ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The ShowRoom Cinema, in partnership with Larry Cadillac Salon — where "Hair Has No Gender" — marks Pride Month with two special 30th Anniversary screenings of groundbreaking drag films, both featuring unforgettable appearances by RuPaul.



    Montclair Film's Summer Series returns, bringing big-screen magic to warm summer nights under the stars. This year's screenings include Wicked, Dazed and Confused, The Sandlot, and The Wild Robot. Arrive early, bring a picnic and lawn chairs, and enjoy a fantastic night of outdoor entertainment.



    (ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The ShowRoom Cinema is turning up the volume this summer with ENCORE: Rock Cinema Returns!, a series of must-see music films that combine incredible sound with captivating visuals. Screenings include The Who's Tommy; Pink Floyd: The Wall; Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains; and Streets of Fire.



    (CAPE MAY, NJ) -- In honor of Juneteenth, East Lynne Theater Company will host a screening of "Whispers from the Forgotten," a 33-minute documentary that explores the history of Union Bethel Civil Cemetery, an important Cape May County African American cemetery, on June 22, 2025, at the Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME Church.



    (LINCROFT, NJ) -- The New Jersey Film Academy will launch its first-ever "Breaking In" Film Industry Lecture Series with a special event featuring Michael Uslan, the visionary Executive Producer behind the Batman film franchise. The event will take place on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at the Brookdale Performing Arts Center on the Lincroft campus and begins at 6:30pm.








     



    Tribeca Film Festival 2025 Review - "Lemonade Blessing"

    When it comes to coming-of-age comedies, the best ones of recent years have been centred on teenage girls (Lady Bird, The Edge of Seventeen, Eighth Grade et al) rather than their male counterparts. Comedies about teenage boys tend to portray them as one-dimensional horndogs whose only goal is to get laid before they graduate, whereas the female protagonists of such movies have far more complex concerns. It's a relief then to find that Lemonade Blessing is that rare teen comedy that offers us a well-rounded young male protagonist, one who isn't even all that bothered about losing his virginity.




    New Release Review - "Fear Street: Prom Queen"

    RL Stine's series of 'Fear Street' young adult novels served as a gateway for a lot of young readers to discover the horror genre in the '90s. In 2021 Netflix released a trilogy of movies based on Stine's books, with instalments set in 1994, 1978 and 1666 that heavily drew on Scream, Friday the 13th and the folk-horror sub-genre respectively. Long envious of MCU fans who get to enjoy three or more interconnecting movies from their favourite cinematic universe every year, I was excited for a horror equivalent. Sadly the Fear Street trilogy was a mess that suffered heavily from getting itself bogged down in clunky universe building rather than telling three engaging horror stories. It may have taken the form of three movies but 2021's Fear Street was really just a TV show in disguise.




    New Release Review - "The Phoenician Scheme"

    Wes Anderson's films are like intricately crafted dollhouses. The good ones feel human and alive, like a dollhouse a little girl has filled with her imagination. The bad ones are like a dollhouse on display in an upmarket shop window, existing to be admired rather than enjoyed. The Phoenician Scheme belongs to the latter category. It's not quite as visually meticulous as we've become accustomed to from Anderson, but it still looks better than 90% of the movies that will grace cinema screens this year. Yet while it's easy to admire the upholstery and carpentry of its sets, its story is almost impenetrably uninteresting, as are most of its characters.




    New Release Review - "The Surrender"

    So many horror movies have tackled grief that it's become something of a cliché in the genre. But unlike many horror movies, in which a death has occurred some time in the past and is still being processed by the protagonist at a later point, writer/director Julia Max's debut The Surrender is set in the immediate aftermath of the death of a loved one.