©Courtesy of Tritone Studio Latvian industry of animation movies seems to be experiencing an artistic moment of grace, to say the least. Following the success of Flow by Gints Zilbalodis, awarded with an Oscar for best animated film, Tribeca Festival 2025 (in the Escape from Tribeca section) presented the powerful Dog of God, directed by…
@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…
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,…
In 2024, I was sitting in a packed theater in Times Square full of a few thousand people who were there for one thing and one thing only – a rare reunion by 8 or 9 of the original cast members of the MTV sketch comedy show, The State. I knew that they had sold…
@Courtesy of A24 After the surprising (but totally deserved) success of Past Lives, Celine Song returns with another movie that confirms how she is capable of talking about our present days and their contradictions, even if she decided to go in a (almost) completely different direction. If her first feature film (Academy Award nominations for…
The fifth film in the John Wick franchise newly unites Ana de Armas with Keanu Reeves, since the two had worked in the 2015 thriller Knock Knock and the 2016 drama Exposed. After a decade, we see them together again in Ballerina, that serves as a spin-off set between the events of John Wick: Chapter…
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Those who aren’t familiar with Italy’s contemporary history and influential political leaders of the Sixties and Seventies, will have the chance to learn about the statesman Enrico Berlinguer with the film The Great Ambition (La Grande Ambizione), directed by Andrea Segre. The movie, that was first presented at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, is part…
41 years after the 1984 classic, The Karate Kid, we’re getting a new version of the movie with Karate Kid: Legends, bringing back Ralph Macchio from the original films and the Netflix series, Cobra Kai, as well as Jackie Chan from the 2010 film. The film follows Ben Wang’s Li Fong as he’s brought from…
The documentary directed Andrew Dominik, captures on film the 2023 performance by Bono at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, during his one-man stage show Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief… This stage performance, in turn, was made to promote his 2022 memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Dominik’s…
©Courtesy of IFC Films Touring has always been hard on performers, but it is particularly tough for “Tornado” traveling through the 1790s Scottish Highlands. She and her exiled Samurai father stage Japanese-themed Punch-and-Judy-like puppet shows that incorporate real-life martial arts demonstrations. Unfortunately, she will need all the combat skills her father taught her to avoid…
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