Category: Tribeca Film Festival

Total 22 Posts

Tribeca 2024: Spotlight Narrative- The Everything Pot

Planning a wedding is fun, but hard, yet an ultimately exciting adventure. Sustaining a healthy marriage is fun, but hard, yet an ultimately exciting adventure. The complexities of both events merge in writer/director Sherise Dorf’s new relationship comedy, The Everything

Tribeca 2024: Documentary- Missing From Fire Trail Road

Director Sabrina Van Tassel powerful documentary, Missing From Fire Trail Road, examines the devastating case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, an Indigenous woman who disappeared from the Tulalip Reservation of Tulalip, Washington in 2020. Johnson-Davis is far from the only case

Tribeca 2024: Documentary- Linda Perry: Let It Die Here

Singer/songwriter Linda Perry is vulnerable, direct, and completely honest about every aspect of her life. In the new documentary, Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, (premiering in the Spotlight+ section of the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival), director Don Hardy is

Tribeca 2024: Short Film Competition- Shut Up, Jack

We have all stuck our respective feet in our respective mouths on more than one occasion. Even those who are comfortable in any social situation have felt the wrath of embarrassment from saying something inappropriate. Sometimes, reading the room is

Tribeca 2023: ‘Cinnamon’- Film Review

Tribeca Film Festival 2023- “Cinnamon” This year’s Tribeca festival was a good one. It saddens me to have to wrap it up with what will certainly go down as one of the worst films of the year, Bryian Keith Montgomery

Tribeca 2023: “Stan Lee”- Film Review

Tribeca 2023- “Stan Lee” David Gelb’s new documentary “Stan Lee” is, for this critic, an important film for two reasons. The first being that the life and career of Stan Lee are inspiring to everyone young and old. Lee was

Tribeca 2023: ‘The Future’- Film Review

Tribeca 2023- “The Future” The one constant in life is that our future is uncertain. We can plan for it and do our best to guide where our life goes, but life itself promises no absolutes. Writer/director Noam Kaplan explores

Tribeca 2023: ‘Rather’- Film Review

Tribeca Film Festival 2023- “Rather” Moving into his 90s as strong as he has ever been, Dan Rather continues to stand as one of the most important giants of American journalism. Frank Marshall’s “Rather” is a sharp and informative examination

Tribeca 2023: ‘Hey, Viktor!”- Film Review

Tribeca Film Festival 2023- “Hey, Viktor!” The mockumentary has been around for decades, but it was Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that set the tone for actual performers playing over-the-top versions of themselves and their everyday lives. Cody Lightning’s “Hey,

Film Review: ‘Still Working 9 To 5’- The Enduring Legacy Of A Classic

Camille Hardman and Gary Lane’s “Still Working 9 to 5” is a wonderful, well-done, and timely documentary about the wonderful, well-done, and timely 1980 comedy “9 to 5” and its enduring legacy. The picture spends its entertaining first half showing