There’s often a tremendous gap between the rich and the poor, and the lack of acknowledgment of that disparity can serve to foster resentment. Many people who have plenty tend to treat those who have little as beneath them, as if hiring them is a gift rather than a contract and they should be expected…
In the opening scene of ”January”, the final scene of Ingmar Bergman’s “Through a Glass Darkly” is shown on a small screen. In the Swedish auteur’s 1961 Oscar winning film a searching son asks his restrained father about love. The father firmly answers that love has many forms – it can be noble, foul, awkward…
Latina superstar Jennifer Lopez celebrated her 50th birthday in the debut screening of “Halftime” — the documentary which served as The Tribeca Festival’s opening night event. The film tracks her rise from generating Oscar buzz for the film “Hustlers” to her sizzling performance during the Super Bowl’s halftime show. After more than 20 years in the entertainment…
We Might As Well Be Dead is the epitome of fear as a self-reproducing system that dominates the political discourse. This is the feature debut directed by Russian-German Natalia Sinelnikova, that was presented at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival and at the 21st Tribeca Film Festival. Forty year old Anna Wilczynska (Ioana Iacob) lives with…
There’s a basic human instinct to seek revenge when someone is wronged. What constitutes being wronged is up for debate and will be interpreted differently by each person, but the natural response to any sort of offense will likely be first defined by a desire to get even and then a more rational evaluation of…
Narrated by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One is an introspective documentary that reconstructs the personal and professional life of Jack Garfein: Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio co-founder, controversial stage and screen director. Award-nominated director and producer Tessa Louise-Salomé skilfully plays with old footage. She creates chimerical effects through black and white moving pictures that come from…
Cinematic polymath Cooper Raiff (director, writer, actor, producer), is currently part of Variety’s List Of New Directors To Watch In 2022. After his breakout film S#!%house — that was the recipient of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film — he returns with another compassionate cross-section of contemporary society. Raiff’s…
Dreaming big to not only expand their own personal experiences, but also help improve overall society, is an admirable goal for teenagers who are longing to find their rightful place in the world. Kamala Khan, the titular teen protagonist of the new Marvel mini-series, Ms. Marvel, is one such adolescent who draws from her own…
The world lost a bright light when beloved singer and former Beatle John Lennon was gunned down in front of his Dakota apartment on December 8th, 1980. He left us profound music which inspired us in our quest for happiness. But there were some elements of John Lennon’s life that have been still shrouded in mystery…
Those who work in an industry like cinema typically have their inspirations that they look up to, the artists whose films they saw at an important moment of youth and were formative in their own creative developments. In some cases, they have the opportunity to meet their heroes and ask them about the projects that…
The Toy Story franchise has always shared Woody’s point of view. Today, after almost twenty years, Buzz gets his spotLightyear. This marvellous computer-animated toy saga began back in 1995 with the first Toy Story produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, that was directed by John Lasseter (at the time it…
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