Al Hoff
Pittsburgh CityPaper
Contact Al
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Al:
Immersive Exhibit offers wall-to-wall-to-wall-to-wall Van Gogh in Pittsburgh’s North Side
The key word is “experience.” The Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit is not an exhibition of paintings, but a 35-minute “immersive digital art experience,” designed by... → Read More
31 Days of the Undead: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
In honor of Romero Lives!, the city's month-long George A. Romero tribute, Pittsburgh City Paper presents 31 Days of the Undead, a series of reviews and essays about zombie media. Look for new posts going up every day from now through Oct. 31. → Read More
31 Days of the Undead: ParaNorman
In honor of Romero Lives!, the city's month-long George A. Romero tribute, Pittsburgh City Paper presents 31 Days of the Undead, a series of reviews and essays about zombie media. Look for new posts going up every day from now through Oct. 31. → Read More
What’s Playing on Pittsburgh Screens: April 4-11
The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, plus two evenings of local experimental film at Melwood Screening Room → Read More
The annual Japanese Film Festival returns to Row House Cinema
The Pittsburgh Japanese Film Festival, highlighting historically and culturally significant films from Japan, returns to town this week. The festival, offering nearly a dozen films with multiple screenings, runs April 6-19 at Row House Cinema, in Lawrenceville. → Read More
More New Films
BLOCKERS. → Read More
More New Films
A CIAMBRA. Jonas Carpignano directs this drama, cast with non-actors and family members playing versions of themselves, set in a Romani community in Calabria, Italy.... → Read More
What’s Playing on Pittsburgh Screens: March 21-28
SPACEBALLS. In Mel Brooks’ 1987 spoof of Star Wars, Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and Barf the Mawg (a furry John Candy) set their intergalactic RV to hyperspeed in order to save the Druish Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and her robot, Dot Matrix (voice of Joan Rivers), from the evil clutches of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis). → Read More
The 12th annual Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of (In)Equality opens in Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of (In)Equality runs Thu., March 22, through April 8, with more than a dozen feature films and documentaries. → Read More
The Death of Stalin
When it comes to deliciously and wickedly eviscerating politics, Armando Iannucci is a master. → Read More
Eat Me: Jumbo chocolate-chip cookie from Cakery Square
Location: Cakery Square, 159 E. Bridge St., The Waterfront, Homestead Ambiance: A bakery offering cakes, cookies, cupcakes, boozy cupcakes and gelato What I ate: Large-size... → Read More
More New Films
IN BETWEEN. From writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud comes this drama about three young Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv, and the challenges of balancing modern life with religious tradition. → Read More
A Wrinkle in Time
It’s tricky business, taking a beloved classic children’s book — which finds its real power inside the reader’s mind — and translating that wonder to a box-office-friendly Disney film. Ava DuVernay (Selma) makes a go of it with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel. → Read More
Love, Simon | Movie Reviews + Features
For years, the coming-out film was a staple of the gay-film-festival circuit. Some were dramas, but many were comedies that mined the awkwardness of telling friends and family for knowing laughs. → Read More
7 Days in Entebbe
Back in the so-called “golden age of airline hijackings” in the late 1960s and 1970s, one of the more notorious skyjackings was Air France Flight 139 in the summer of 1976. Traveling from Tel Aviv to Paris, it was taken over, after an Athens stop-over, by four hijackers — two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and two Germans from the Revolutionary Cells. → Read More
The Haters Roast — The Shady Tour brings insult-slinging drag queens to town
If you’re attending the Haters Roast — The Shady Tour, a touring stage show featuring drag queens from the hit TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race, be forewarned. → Read More
Black Panther
Holy Catman, Black Panther is great. We’re through the pre-hype, the preview think pieces and some killer red carpets at assorted premieres for the much-anticipated Ryan Coogler take on the Marvel comic. → Read More
Fifty Shades Freed
James Foley’s conclusion of the Fifty Shades saga, Fifty Shades Freed, opens with a wedding. The bride, Anastasia (Dakota Johnson), is wearing white lace, the groom, Christian (Jamie Dornan), two days stubble. → Read More
Félicité | Movie Reviews + Features
It’s another steamy night in an open-air club in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The easy banter between customers establishes that this is a place of regulars. → Read More
Four new animated films screen at Row House Cinema
Catch Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, The Breadwinner, Mary and the Witch’s Flower and Coco → Read More