Sleeping with Other People Playwright-turned-filmmaker Leslye Headland is either working toward a more honest, subversive approach to romantic comedy or backing away from her edgier instincts toward more conventional ideas. She started out adapting her own play with Bachelorette, a…

So many of the subjects broached in Vanguard of the Revolution echo the headlines and news reports from our current racially tense moment: police brutality against Black men and women; activists and pundits shouting each other down from entrenched positions;…

Prolific French director François Ozon casts a Hitchcockian sense of unease over his loose adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s short story, but the suspense lies not in a question of life or death but of male or female. Following the premature…

Cécile McLorin Salvant Tracy Love Terri Lyne Carrington Orrin Evans The Philly pianist celebrates his deeply personal new CD, The Evolution of Oneself (Smoke Sessions), with a stellar band featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Mark Whitfield…

BY THE NUMBERS: Sonic Liberation 8 is joining other local arts orgs for an evening of sonic and visual dream interpretation, inspired by “dream books.” Long before the States got into the lottery racket, illegal numbers games flourished in poor…

Slow Learners You can’t write the kinds of twists that have impacted the doc­umentaries of Phil­a­del­phia film­makers Don Ar­gott and Sheena Joyce. As they were re­searching the history of nuclear power for The Atomic States of America, dis­aster struck Japan’s…

MAY-SEPTEMBER ROMANCE: Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix in Woody Allen’s 46th feature film. City Paper grade: D Eyebrows raised with the news that Woody Allen’s 46th feature involved a college professor becoming entangled with a student. This is nothing new…

City Paper grade: C Marvel isn’t exactly known for thinking small. Its movies boast their own universe, after all, and it’s beginning to seem like the combined running times of their non-stop output will soon rival the age of the…

City Paper grade: C+ A practicing physician before he turned to filmmaking, French director Thomas Lilti brings an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of a beleaguered hospital to Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor. The film follows Benjamin (Vincent…