With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set to hit theaters on June 3rd, Paramount has gotten creative with their marketing and set-up something pretty freakin’ awesome. They have built a TMNT lair in a secret location in NYC and you can actually crash there with up to five other people utilizing AirBNB.com Yesterday, I had an […] Read more
We’ve officially moved into Phase Three of Marvel’s meticulous 11-year plan and this is truly the beginning of the end, as the signs to usher in a new era after 2019 get put into place. Buckle in, because there’s far too much to cover with no spoilers to be given! Captain America: Civil War sort […] Read more
Most Americans, including myself, have limited (if any) knowledge about horse racing in the UK. Because of that, many will go into the documentary Dark Horse, which follows the career of the Welsh thoroughbred racehorse Dream Alliance, with no emotional attachment to the animal. Nor will they have any prior knowledge of the two dozen […] Read more
New Yorkers (and people visiting New York this June), mark your calendars: The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be presenting two of its “Sound + Vision Presents” programs, which highlights the connection between music and film. For those fans of silent cinema, the June 19 program (Father’s Day) offers an extremely exciting double feature: […] Read more
Finally, a year has passed and the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival is officially kicking off and, thankfully, it is starting on a terrific note. Out of the gate, the first film I screened was the popular Sundance title Hunt for the Wilderpeople from Kiwi writer/director Taika Waititi, the man behind greats such as Boy and What […] Read more
Modern day hip hop is a fascinating beast. Unless you have the right combination of lyrics and beats it’s hard to make it big, or at least past the small club level, and even then it’s very difficult. It’s even harder if you’re not an Afrithn American due to the overall aesthetic and origins of […] Read more
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 can’t imagine why the festival decided to feature this film otherwise, because it’s as slow-moving and uninteresting as a bad baseball game. Actor Johnny Simmons, […] 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 nearly any young comedian would still do just about anything to be a castmember of SNL. For all its flaws, […] 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 obituary pages of the New York Times. It’s a question the staff probably gets a lot. However, as Obituaries Senior Writer Margalit Fox points out, only one or […] 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-documentary about James Franco’s stint on General Hospital directed by Ian Olds. With The Fixer, Olds and Franco have reteamed for another Tribeca Film […] Read more
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