Tribeca Review: Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
It seems like we’re well beyond the age of the public intellectual, or even the public author who may show society the way. ...
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Tribeca Review: Mistaken for Strangers
If you’re going into Mistaken for Strangers looking for a rockumentary/tour documentary on The National, you’re in for disappointment. The film was directed ...
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Tribeca Review: Adult World
In my blurb review for Neil Jordan’s vampire film Byzantium, my main gripe had a lot to do with the age of the ...
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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, ...
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Review: Dark Touch
There were so many varying opinions at the screening of Dark Touch I went to. Flixist’s pal Steve over at Unseen Films is ...
Review: Kill Team
The war in Afghanistan is the longest military conflict in which the United States has been involved. The operation is nowhere near as ...
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Tribeca Review: Oxyana
A couple of weeks ago, the 1995 patent on the painkiller OxyContin expired. OxyContin is a particularly potent form of the opioid Oxycodone, ...
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Tribeca Capsule Review: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Here’s an interesting fact: Taiwan is among the most gay-friendly countries in Asia. Gay marriage is not explicitly legal (a bill attempting to ...
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Review: Let the Fire Burn
In 1985 there was a tragic stand-off between the extremist Africa-American group MOVE and the city of Philadelphia. At the end, 11 members ...
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Tribeca Review: What Richard Did
Pull quotes are sometimes picked in order to achieve the greatest possible hyperbolic effect. In the trailer for Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did, ...
Tribeca Review: Odayaka
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I wound up streaming NHK all day for a few days to find out what ...
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Tribeca Review: Run and Jump
Run and Jump features a bit of semi-stunt casting that got me interested in the movie: the film features Saturday Night Live‘s Will ...