If you were to go into the Japanese crime-drama, Sham, without any advance knowledge, you might assume it’s the new film from Kore-eda or Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car). Going into the movie knowing it’s directed by Takashi Miike is likely to lead to all sorts of expectations, since, for better or worse…
Let’s leave the politics at the door right now. Let’s forget about what strange take on guns in America you may have and just admit that we have a problem. Because no matter what jargon you want to blurt out to defend your desire to own a wide array of automatic weapons, the fact of…
If there is something that isn’t much in the way of new news for a long time; too many movies are delving into some very familiar territory. It’s been dominating the narrative selections so far at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. When a writer/director can take a…
Though there are always new and fresh ideas being delivered through the horror genre, there is always a note of familiarity in most of their plotlines. Family terrorized by vengeful spirits, teens chased by crazed maniac, inanimate object becomes sentient and starts killing. The list could go on forever. The new horror film, Bad Things,…
Katja Gauriloff, the award-winning film director from Finland, presents at the Tribeca Film Festival another of her influential films: Je’vida. The beautifully-shot, black and white, picture is a journey of acceptance, discovery and reconciliation. The narrative opens up with an aunt (Lida) and her niece (Sanna) who have never met before and drive to Lapland…
Crafting an emotionally relatable and gripping genre movie that thrives on its unique blend of somber thematic tones and imagery, as opposed to only its terrifying visuals, isn’t always an easy task. But up-and-coming scribe-helmer, Jonathan Cuartas has done just that with his new horror thriller, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To….
The Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival programs “the best in horror, sci-fi, and cult cinema for the late-night crowd.” That’s certainly a good descriptor for Ultrasound, which finds a man in way over his head after his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He doesn’t even begin to understand what’s happening,…
Jena Malone has been acting since she was twelve years old, earning accolades for her first performance in the TV movie Bastard Out of Carolina in 1996. Now, two and a half decades later, she’s on the other side, playing the adult and mother opposite talented young actors, in the Tribeca drama Lorelei, which was…
Predictable, tiresome, overdone, cliche…all terms I probably use for the majority of films I see. It’s hard to be original and different when we’re drowning in oceans of content at this point. And yes, while some of those words can be used to describe certain aspects of Werewolves Within— as it isn’t in any form…
Back in the 1980s and ‘90s、Everybody in The Hollywood wanted to go to Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant Spago, which featured an open kitchen with a wood-burning stove made for serving up fancy pizzas. Born in Austria, Wolfgang Puck studied at three-star restaurants such as “Maxim” in Paris, France and “Hôtel de Paris” in Monte Carlo since…
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