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Tribeca Festival: Re-Creation Confirms That Jim Sheridan Hasn’t Given Up the Fight

@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Jim Sheridan wrote important, if not fundamental, pages of British cinema beginning in the late 1980s, with such award-winning films as ‘My Left Foot,’ ‘In the Name of the Father,’ and ‘The Boxer‘. Around the beginning of the new millennium, though he got kind of lost in the oblivion of those…

Tribeca Festival / What Marielle Knows: Exclusive Interview with Director Frédéric Hambalek

©Walker Worm Film Seemingly fun sci-fi movies can also serve as an allegory for a country’s most serious and important issues, such as the surveillance of its citizens. That’s certainly the case for the new drama, What Marielle Knows, which follows a family as they struggle to maintain privacy in their daily lives. The project…

Robert Eggers to Direct ‘A Christmas Carol’ for Warner Bros.

©Courtesy of Nosferatu Robert Eggers will be writing and directing a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic, A Christmas Carol. The movie is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 25, 2026. According to an exclusive report in Deadline, Eggers will be producing the project with Chris and Eleanor Columbus of…

Tribeca Festival : Boy George & Culture Club / Exclusive Interview with Director Alison Ellwood

Boy George and Culture Club : With humor, heart and a lot of glitz and glam, Boy George & Culture Club is an endlessly charming documentary that dives headfirst into the chaos, charisma and enduring bond of one of the most iconic bands of the ‘80s. Straight from the mouths of its four legendary members, Boy George…

Tribeca Festival/A Second Life Review: Chaos Meets Claude Monet When Titane Star Agathe Rousselle Crosses Paris on the Verge of the Olympics

Life was dark when French painter Claude Monet, regarded as the father of impressionism, took on the grand scale Water Lilies at the age of 74, a series of around 250 paintings depicting the water garden at his Giverny home. The year was 1914. His son had recently died, World War 1 had just begun,…

Pietro Valsecchi Developing Biopic on Luciano Pavarotti

©Courtesy of The Best of Luciano Pavalotti, The Millennium Collection A biopic about the late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti is being developed by Pietro Valsecchi, the renowned producer known for the 2016 comedy film Quo Vado, which became Italy’s all-time blockbuster. Valsecchi said he will soon be announcing an actor to play the lead, as…

DUAF(Downtown Urban Arts Festival) NYC : “Letter” / Playwright Momo Akashi, Director Saki Kawamura, Performer Viet Vo

Photo credit “Campaign design by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez (@MrEdgardoNYC)” for 2025 DUAF All Playwrights and 2025 DUAF MomoAkashi.  Title: Letter  https://www.duafnyc.com/schedule-tickets Date: Wednesday, June 25 at 8PM Location: Theatre Row 410W42th Street, New York, NY Price: $32.50 (inc. service charge)  Content warning: Sexual Assault Running time: Around 30 minutes Synopsis: On the way from Tokyo to…

Tatami : Exclusive Interview with Actress Arienne Mandi

  Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite”…

‘The Life of Chuck’ : Press Conference with Cast & Director

@Courtesy of Neon “The Life of Chuck” : Charles “Chuck” Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us. Director : Mike Flanagan Producer :  Trevor Macy, Mike Flanagan Screenwriter : Mike Flanagan Distributor : NEON Production Co : Intrepid Pictures, Red Room Pictures Rating :…

Jonathan Daviss to Star as Snoop Dogg in Universal’s Biopic

Courtesy of Netflix  Jonathan Daviss, the star of ‘Outer Banks‘, will be playing the role of Snoop Dogg in Universal’s upcoming biopic about the legendary rap star. Snoop Dogg himself will be producing the film, which is described by Universal as the “definitive biopic about the entertainment mogul and icon. In addition to his role…

Eddington | Official Trailer HD | A24 :  Joaquin Phoenix & Pedro Pascal

©Courtesy of A24 A24 has dropped the trailer for “Eddington,” Ari Aster‘s modern western which divided critics’ opinions at the Cannes Film Festival after its Croisette premiere. COVID conspiracy theories abound in the first full trailer for Ari Aster’s latest film, “Eddington.” Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the Western goes back to the politically charged summer of 2020,…