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
After watching, what may arguably become, one of my favorite films of the year, my second screening here at the Tribeca Film Festival bought me to an R-rated animated comedy called Nerdland.... Read more
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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
One Tribeca Film Festival 2015 film I wasn’t able to catch before the awards ceremony was Virgin Mountain from writer/director Dagur Kári. However, the feature was not only awarded the... Read more
A documentary is meant to break new ground, explore uncharted territory, or look at a familiar topic in a new light. If a documentary does none of these things, what is the point of making i... Read more
The most underrated of all the Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro collaborations is 1982’s The King of Comedy, a wickedly brilliant dark comedy about the dangers of celebrity hero worship... Read more
Every time I read an article about how the Western is a “dead” cinematic genre I almost immediately afterward see a film that proves that tired assertion dead. Yes, when Hollywoo... Read more
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