There's nothing like your first time.

“I’m not going to go into mine,” actress Keri Russell told us last night, referring to the birth of her son, River Russell Deary. (What did you think we were talking about?) She paused, flashed a toothy grin and added: “But it was great.”

Bundled in an oversized jacket and looking much younger than her 31 years, the Felicity star (and Brooklyn resident!) was milling about at the after-party for a special screening of The Business of Being Born at the IFC Center in the Village.  read more »

When Adrienne Shelly’s film Waitress opened last spring, it was bittersweet, to say the least. Just months before the film’s release, Ms. Shelly was killed at her office in Tribeca by a workman with whom she’d had a disagreement. It was a senseless and random death for anyone to suffer, but Ms. Shelley’s murder seemed even more ridiculous in light of the unapologetic opitimism of her last movie, which comes out on DVD this week. Waitress, which Ms. Shelly wrote, directed and co-starred in, just might be the most hopeful indie movie ever. And when we say hopeful, we mean it in a sincere and positive way. Isn’t everyone entitled to have their heart warmed now and again and not feel like a chump?  read more »

On Sunday, Nov. 11, the actress and beatific new mother Keri Russell, whose career we feel has never quite recovered from the great Felicity hair-chopping disaster of 1999, was enjoying a glass of red wine at a party after the premiere of her new film, August Rush, at the catering space at 583 Park.

“Do you want a drink?” she asked her publicist. “Are you sure? I feel bad being the only one!” Bottoms up, Mommy!  read more »

So, just in time for Thanksgiving, which seems to attract movies about the kinds of New Yorkers who don't gather 'round the table at Grandma's for turkey and stuffing, comes the movie August Rush. Robin Williams and Keri Russell are there, and so is Jonathan Rhys Myers. And he sings.

Reuters sums up the New York-centric plot of August Rush thusly:  read more »

Manhattanites apparently love Spider-Man with the same insane intensity as the rest of America: Spider-Man 3 topped both the U.S. and Manhattan box office once again, raking in $60 M. over the weekend, while 28 Weeks Later, the follow-up to the zombie sleeper 28 Days Later, angled for the bloodthirsty “R” crowd and made away with $10 M.

Behind Spider-Man 3, the gory horror film had the strongest per screen average in the city, a very healthy $20,718.  read more »