Tribeca Capsule Review: Powerless
At the beginning of the documentary Powerless, we’re told that 1.5 billion people in the world live without electricity, and that 400 million of ...
Tag: Foreign
Features
Tribeca Interview: Kate Elliott (Fresh Meat)
Fresh Meat is a manic horror-comedy from New Zealand about a group of screw-up criminals that take a suburban family hostage. The family ...
Features
Tribeca Interview: Danny Mulheron (Fresh Meat)
Director Danny Mulheron has a really huge personality, and talking to him last week I could sense a lot of that in the ...
Reviews
Tribeca Capsule Review: Northwest
In some ways Northwest could be written off as another movie about how crime doesn’t pay. There’s an escalation of criminal activity, there’s ...
Reviews
Tribeca Review: Fresh Meat
Before interviewing director Danny Mulheron and actress Kate Elliott about Fresh Meat, I was talking to another film blogger/journalist about the movie. She ...
Tribeca Review: The Machine
Retro-style futures sometimes look more futuristic than modern approximations of what the future will be like, and there’s a definite retro aesthetic at ...
Reviews
Reviews: Whitewash and Big Bad Wolves
I like film festivals for a lot of reasons, but one of the best is the way films are forced into context with ...
Trailers
Trailer: Man of Tai Chi
While this international trailer for Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, isn’t exactly the best quality (that might be attributed to ...
Reviews
Review: Frankenstein’s Army
When it’s firing on all cylinders, Frankenstein’s Army is a great monster movie. The creatures that appear on screen have an odd aesthetic ...
Tony Jaa & Dolph Lundgren team up for A Man Will Rise
Tony Jaa is gearing to make a comeback after a few years away from the silver screen. His new film shooting right now ...
Character posters for Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer are dark
Usually “gritty” imagery doesn’t get me particularly excited by things, but I can’t pretend that seeing these character posters for Bong Joon-Ho’s upcoming ...
Reviews
Tribeca Review: Mobius
There’s a moment in Möbius where I expected a turn toward high-stakes adventure and evasion. As in any story of spies and espionage, ...