Writer/director Noah Buschel is a Tribeca Film Festival favorite, so that might explain why his latest film, The Phenom, is in this year’s festival. If that’s not the reason, I c... Read more
What’s most ironic about Saturday Night Live is that almost everyone agrees that its best days are far behind it and it seems like a relic in an era of YouTube and social media, yet ne... Read more
“Isn’t writing obituaries depressing?” is one of the first questions asked in Obit, a documentary by Vanessa Gould (Between the Folds) about the writing staff of the obitua... Read more
Tribeca Film Festival 2012 featured what was perhaps the oddest film I’ve ever seen at a film festival — Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), a pseudo-doc... Read more
Self-reflective horror films are pretty common these days since the language of the genre is so well known by film fans. In Women Who Kill, a woman who is obsessed with real-life killers fac... Read more
Last year I wrote an article about how obsessed the Tribeca Film Festival seems to be with actor/writer/director/producer/student/teacher/artist James Franco. As a follow up, I thought I... Read more
If you’re one of the many Alien fans who are eagerly awaiting for Ridley Scott‘s next trip into the Alien universe with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, we have something that will... Read more
One of the most formulaic film genres is the musician biopic. You know the general plot points: A brilliant, troubled musician hits early success, then struggles to escape the clutches of ad... Read more
For over 150 years, photography is how we record visual history. But one thing that totalitarian regimes hate more than anything else is the exposure of truth. For a country like Afghanistan... Read more
At times both brutally hilarious and brutally honest, Lonely Boys is the type of low-budget gem you hope to see in the program of a film festival. It combines clever writing, amusing perform... Read more
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