NYC’s ‘Madoff of landlords’ defaults on $170M loans, faces foreclosure on 35 Manhattan properties: suits November 19, 2025 | 1:08pm Steven Croman, a longtime notorious landlord once sent to Rikers for a year after pleading guilty to fraud, is in default on $168 million worth of real estate loans, according to a bevy of lawsuits […]
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Salt-N-Pepa, Outkast among Rock Roll Hall of Fame’s newest inductees The 2025 Rock Roll Hall of Fame class included Warren Zevon, Bad Company, Salt-N-Pepa, Outkast, Soundgarden, Cyndi Lauper and The White Stripes. Nov 8
It’s Epic to Live a Normal Life: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on “Train Dreams”
Lyrical and elegiac even while being rooted in hope and tenderness, director Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” moves with the grace of a liturgy. The film centers on a logger, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose work building railroads tames America’s vast landscape into something manageable. The seasonality of his work means he rarely gets to see […]
Right Now, It’s Important: An Ode to S.E. Hinton’s Teenagers
My eighth-grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Hughes. She always told us not to be a bump on a log if she saw that we weren’t using our energy to its full potential. I thought she’d coined the phrase until we read S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders as a class. It’s right there on the fourth […]
From Chicago to the World: On the 50th Anniversary of Siskel & Ebert
Before I was a friend and colleague, I was a fan. In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a loner jock/pop culture nerd who was obsessed with these pursuits: Playing and watching baseball and football and to a lesser extent basketball, and consuming issues of Sports Illustrated and Sport and Baseball Digest, […]
A Source of Inspiration: Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value”
In Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” a once-revered Norwegian filmmaker struggles to mount a deeply personal project related to his family history, going so far as to attempt to enlist his estranged daughters—in defiance of their wishes—to help realize his vision. For Stellan Skarsgård, playing the filmmaker in question, Gustav Borg, was a uniquely rich opportunity; […]
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: Mamoru Oshii on “Angel’s Egg”
In a career retrospective talk at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Mamoru Oshii spoke, if not regretfully, mournfully about “Angel’s Egg.” The legendary Japanese writer and director—who secured his place in animation history with “Ghost in the Shell”—said that his dreamlike, allegorical 1985 OVA film nearly killed his career: “After that, nobody gave me […]
Amazon Prime’s “Malice” Will Only Make You Mad
As temperatures drop, the promise of a guilty-pleasure thriller about a mysterious man who infiltrates a family with the intention of destroying its patriarch is an enticing invitation. With two episodes set on the shores of a Grecian vacation home, a beautiful cast, and a twisted mystery at its center, Prime Video’s “Malice” should draw […]