Tribeca 2024 Review: Satisfied
By Steve Geise |
Filled with Renée Elise Goldsberry’s self-recorded archival clips, this new documentary traces her meteoric ride on the Hamilton express at ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Luther: Never Too Much
By Steve Geise |
Luther Vandross built a recording career on love songs featuring his unforgettable voice, but director Dawn Porter takes a deep ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Desire: The Carl Craig Story
By Steve Geise |
Widely regarded as one of the key figures and champions of the Detroit EDM scene, Carl Craig is both a ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Soldiers of Song
By David Wangberg |
Ryan Smith’s Soldiers of Song starts off as if we’re about to watch a trailer for the documentary that’s going ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: They All Came Out to Montreux
By Steve Geise |
How did a tiny Swiss lakeside town become the site of a legendary music festival? Why is it called the ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Boys Go to Jupiter
By Steve Geise |
In Julian Glander’s candy-colored, CG-animated vision of suburban Florida, slacker friends co-exist with odd sentient creatures and an orange juice ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: The Dog Thief
By David Wangberg |
One of the best things about film festivals, such as Tribeca and others, is having the opportunity to see movies ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Some Rain Must Fall
By David Wangberg |
There has been a recent trend in which independent features are shot in 4:3 box format, as opposed to the ...
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Slamdance 2024 Review: Chaperone: Highs and Lows in Hilo
By Steve Geise |
Misha is going nowhere fast. Nearly 30 years old, she’s in a perpetual state of arrested development, plodding along in ...
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AFI Fest 2023 Review: Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
By Gordon S. Miller |
Frederick Wiseman's 18th film is Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, a four-hour documentary shot in Spring 2022 over 35 days about ...
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Review: Celebrating Film Legacies
By Lorna Miller |
My eleventh opportunity to cover the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood provided an opportunity to enjoy some old favorites ...
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Make Believe Seattle 2023 Review: Smoking Causes Coughing
By Steve Geise |
If you’re in the Seattle area this weekend, Make Believe Seattle Film Festival is making its debut with a fascinating ...
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Tribeca 2022 Interview: Producer Annalise Davis Talks Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
Producer Annalise Davis has been in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having worked on films such as The ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The DOC
By Darcy Staniforth |
In the rap and hip hop world, it's one thing to have confidence and ego about being one of the ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
There have been many films and television series that involve top-level characters carrying out orders to bomb a certain location ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine
By Davy |
Coming out of the closet for in one of the most difficult things that anyone in LGBTQ community ever has ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Katrina Babies
By David Wangberg |
There is no way that someone could direct a documentary such as Katrina Babies the same way if they had ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: A Rising Fury
By David Wangberg |
Starting with the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2013, and leading up to the current invasion from Russia, A Rising ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Visitor
By David Wangberg |
After spending time in jail for “alcoholism,” Humberto (Enrique Araoz) is three years sober and ready to restart his life ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
By David Wangberg |
Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), or “Joe” as some call him, is not the kind of man you would think could ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: A Love Song
By Davy |
An unorthodox romance set in a beautiful, vast Colorado backdrop is at the center of Max Walker-Silverman's beguilingly unassuming directorial ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: A Love Song
By David Wangberg |
Dale Dickey has been acting for nearly 30 years, and chances are, you’ve seen her in at least one movie ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Butterfly in the Sky
By David Wangberg |
The opening scene of Butterfly in the Sky centers LeVar Burton in front of a huge library filled with books. ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Wes Schlagenhauf is Dying
By Davy |
If you said that there are too many pandemic comedies existing now, I would have to agree with you. However, ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Out of Order
By Davy |
Sometimes the big city can bring a lot of you, including your search of love after heartbreak. This appealingly familiar ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
Produced and directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story documents the love ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Nude Tuesday
By Davy |
I've never been married nor have been in a relationship, but I have seen enough on film and TV to ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Peace in the Valley
By David Wangberg |
It’s a sad coincidence that Tyler Riggs’ Peace in the Valley premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival as the nation ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Rounding
By David Wangberg |
Alex Thompson’s Rounding is classified as a psychological thriller, and it has the necessary elements to categorize it as such. ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Closing Dynasty
By Davy |
Written and directed by Lloyd Lee Choi Closing Dynasty is a quietly humanistic short portrait of how we really do ...
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
[Read Lorna's Day One and Two coverage of TCMFF 2022] Three on a Match (1932) was one of the most ...
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
After a three-year hiatus, the TCM Classic Film Festival returned to an in-person event in Hollywood over four days and ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
By David Wangberg |
As Walt Disney once said, “It all started with a mouse.” Now, that mouse, whose name you are probably spelling ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth
By David Wangberg |
Coming-of-age movies have a tendency to be huge successes in the festival circuit, and most wind up becoming popular with ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: In the Court of the Crimson King
By Kent Conrad |
I've seen King Crimson once in concert. It was at the Greek in Los Angeles in 2017, and I went ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
By David Wangberg |
The opening minutes of Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off captivate the viewer with footage of a present-day Hawk, ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks Review
By Davy |
If you're a huge fan of the classic sketch comedy show The Kids of the Hall, you instantly recognize the ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Master
By Davy |
Let's face it, Jordan Peele's Get Out (2018) continues to be the horror gold standard of films about racism and ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: The Cow
By David Wangberg |
A bad couple making bad decisions is always a chore to watch as a movie progresses to its end. One ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Raquel 1:1
By David Wangberg |
Mariana Bastos’ Raquel 1:1 questions what would happen if the Bible was written with more favorability toward women in its ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Hypochondriac
By Davy |
As we're young, we fear that we might turn into our parents. When we are older, we deny when we ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Soft & Quiet
By Davy |
Karen-a-phobia, the fear of Karens could be an accurate tagline for Beth de Araujo's deeply disturbing Soft & Quiet, a ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Mama Bears
By Darcy Staniforth |
When you grow up in the Christian faith, you are told that if you follow God, honor Jesus, and stay ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad: Deeply Uncomfortable but Strangely Sweet
By Davy |
I'm not a parent, but I have seen how complicated relationships between parent and their children can actually be. There ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: A Lot of Nothing
By Darcy Staniforth |
A Lot of Nothing begins in the place where the pain and anger about continued injustice turns from a passive ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad
By Darcy Staniforth |
There is the old saying that “the truth is stranger than fiction.” So, it might be hard to believe that ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Sissy
By Davy |
Blood, gore, and social commentary are on full display in Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes' Sissy, a wicked horror-thriller that ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Your Friend, Memphis
By Davy |
People with disabilities are too often ignored in documentaries, and that's a shame. You can learn a lot from them, ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: This Much I Know to Be True
By Darcy Staniforth |
Months ahead of its cinematic release in theaters, the SXSW audience had the opportunity to view the new music documentary ...
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SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty
By Davy |
I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...
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