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Tribeca Festival : Nobu / Q&A with Director Matt Tyrnauer, Founder Robert De Niro, Chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa

©Courtesy of Vertical Nobu examines culinary legend Nobuyuki Matsuhisa’s empire, offering an intimate portrait of a man who has redefined global gastronomy alongside his business partners Robert De Niro and Meir Teper. The film grants unprecedented access into Nobu’s world, revealing the alchemy and precision behind his signature dishes, and the inspirations behind his innovations…

Tribeca Festival / How To Train Your Dragon : Q&A with Actors Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, and Director Dean DeBlois 

©Couretsy of Universal Pictures  How to Train Your Dragon : On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames; The Black Phone, For All Mankind) stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, reprising his voice role from the…

Tribeca Festival / Twelve Moons: Exclusive Interview with Director Victoria Franco

Exploring the reasons why a woman goes down the wrong path without fully understanding why can make a movie truly contemplative and complex. The new drama, Twelve Moons, feature a gripping protagonist, Sofia, wgi doesn’t fit anywhere. Her inability to handle social conventions has led her to make hasty, unguided decisions that affect her entire…

Tribeca Festival: ‘In Cold Light’ is a Gripping Crime-Thriller with Maika Monroe

Since the cult-movie It Follows released in 2014 (we are awaiting for the upcoming sequel with enormous trepidation) Maika Monroe has become one of the most effective and prolific “Scream Queens” of our times. While waiting to see if she is going to expand her repertoire working on more various genres, the Californian artist has…

Tribeca Festival : People and Meat Review / Poor Old Trio Dine and Dash in Korean Gem

©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival In youth-oriented, fast-moving, modern societies, many elderly are overlooked and brushed aside, marginalized and isolated, or just have a bad rap. In the autumn of age, it’s too common to become invisible. In cinema, the theme has been explored in various ways, from Poetry to Umberto D., from Nomadland to Tokyo…

Tribeca Festival: Raoul’s: A New York Story is a Delectable Portrait of the Iconic French Bistro

Food-driven documentaries have become as abundant in recent years as the number of chic eateries striving to become the next most successful restaurant in New York City. But the history behind the French bistro, Raoul’s, which has garnered acclaim since it opened in Soho in the 1970s, proves that it deserves to be celebrated in…

Tribeca Festival : Re-creation / Q&A with Writers/Directors Jim Sheridan, David Merriman 

©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Re-creation : In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether British journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in 1996. Based on real events, the film reconstructs, through the discussions between these twelve people, a case that ultimately invites…

Tribeca Festival: Everything’s Going To Be Great Review / Allison Janney and Bryan Cranston Excel in This Dramedy About Family and Dreams

@Courtesy of Lionsgate In ‘Everything’s Going To Be Great‘, screenwriter Steven Rogers ‘I, Tonya’ provided again the protagonist Allison Janney with a script that is fully capable of enhancing her already remarkable acting skills. And she repaid him with a bittersweet performance whose quality and solidity are, as always admirable. If we then add to…

Tribeca Festival: Tow Is the Perfect Vehicle for an Inspired (and Inspiring) Rose Byrne

@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival ‘Tow’ (Spotlight Narrative) could easily have been an intense drama, given the real-life event it is based on, but star and co-producer Rose Byrne managed to give the movie the gift of levity without making the whole story shallow or inconsistent, especially since it is really about serious facts and people…

Tribeca Festival/ Dog of God is a Powerful Animated Horror

©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…

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…