TRIBECA 2019: Flesh Out
Weddings, however fun and exciting and Pinterest-worthy they may be, place a huge amount of pressure on a bride. Her hair has to be perfect, her dress has to be perfect, and her body has to be perfect, because wedding photographers are expensive and with…
TRIBECA 2019: Georgetown
Beware the passion project of the unrestrained actor. Georgetown, Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut, is a missed opportunity of epic proportions. This is a film about a mysterious, charming man who seduces a wealthy older woman and insinuates himself into the Washington elite. It is a…
TRIBECA 2019: Dreamland
True to its name, Dreamland has the soft cadence of a reverie. From the very beginning, we are warned not to take the story at its word: this is a family legend, a young woman telling the tale of her beloved older brother Eugene (Finn…
TRIBECA 2019: Plus One
In the world of romantic comedies, chemistry is everything. You can have the most original plot and stellar writing, but it doesn’t mean a thing if the audience isn’t buying what you’re selling. Plus One may be a story we’ve seen a hundred times over,…
TRIBECA 2019: Leftover Women
There’s nothing like building a country with millions more men than women thanks to misogynistic family planning policies, then shaming women into early marriage when you realize you need every last one of them to become baby-making factories in order to avert a complete demographic…
TRIBECA 2019: Buffaloed
It’s probably worth mentioning before I begin my review of Buffaloed that, as a native Buffalonian, I might be a tiny bit biased. I spent the first 18 years of my life on the outskirts of the scrappy, perennially optimistic city in Western New York,…
INTERVIEW: Mark Stanley Discusses His Character And Driving Skills In ‘Run’
At the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, we sat down with Mark Stanley to discuss his upcoming film Run, where he plays Finnie, a Scottish fishery worker dissatisfied with his life who tries to reconnect with his youth by racing cars. Many of our…
INTERVIEW: Marli Siu Shares Her Experience Filming ‘Run’ And Explores Her Character
At the Tribeca Film Festival, we sat down with one of the stars of Scott Graham’s latest film, Run, which had its world premiere at the festival. Marli Siu (Anna and the Apocalypse) plays Kelly, the pregnant girlfriend of Finnie’s teen son Kid, who ends…
Tribeca 2019: American Woman
The kidnapping of Patty Hearst, heiress to a massive newspaper empire and famed abductee-turned-radical, is an endlessly fascinating piece of history from a chaotic time when social order itself seemed to be collapsing. There’s so much ambiguity inherent in her story and to this day…
Tribeca 2019: Yesterday
When you’ve got Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and Richard Curtis (Love Actually) collaborating on a film about The Beatles, it seems pointless to judge it by any other metric than the Marie Kondo philosophy: does it spark joy? In the case of Yesterday, a blindingly…
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