REGINA MARGHERITA PIZZERIA
There’s no big sign, but the spruced-up corner building at 38th and Butler should catch the eye easily enough. In this converted storefront, behind big plate glass windows is the Lawrenceville sister to Bellevue’s popular Regina Margherita Pizzeria. Inside, there are a few framed illustrations of the woman, “Regina Margherita,” here and there, but mostly…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Eleven years ago, Amnesty International USA started its annual human-rights film festival in Seattle. Until now it has run in only two other cities: Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. How did Pittsburgh this year get to be No. 4? It’s largely due to the initiative of volunteers from Amnesty’s local chapter, whom area coordinator…
LOVE LIZA
In Love Liza, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Wilson Joel, a man who’s attractive to women. That takes some getting used to. In his most memorable roles — as a gay man sick with love for a straight porn star in Boogie Nights, or a sexually frustrated pervert in Happiness, or the sensitive attendant to a…
DREAMCATCHERS
Though they’re all nice, bright, good-looking young guys, the four friends in Dreamcatcher are not doing so well in life. One is suicidal; a couple of them drink too much. And all of them are alone, except for each other. This being the movies, what binds them is a boyhood incident that mysteriously allowed them…
DADDY COOL
Daddy Cool, the ingenius new feature by Pittsburgh filmmaker Brady Lewis, defies classification. This much is clear: It’s a darkly comic romance between a psychoanalyst werewolf and his patient, who is a woman but used to be a boy. But its slippery narrative’s parodic impulses, and motifs plucked from science-fiction and horror movies, all wrapped…
BRADY LEWIS (DADDY COOL) BIO
Brady Lewis couldn’t have asked for a better debut: His first feature film, the surreal and darkly comic Daddy Cool, premiered last November at the Three Rivers Film Festival with a pair of sold-out screenings at the Regent Square Theater. In some ways, the big turnouts were a gimme. Along with his national reputation in…
