New Releases, week of 5/11/13: Heading Upstream Edition
First off, sorry this edition of New Releases is a day later than usual. Running behind with lots of things this week. Netflix ...
Line-up for 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival announced
With the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival behind us and the New York Asian Film Festival & Japan Cuts not happening until late June ...
Tribeca doc Oxyana causes controversy in West Virginia
Alec and I didn’t like the drug addiction documentary Oxyana at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Apparently we’re not alone. A number of ...
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Review: Something in the Air
Confession time: the only Olivier Assayas movie I’d seen prior to Something in the Air was Irma Vep starring Maggie Cheung, which I ...
Big Pacific Rim banner poster shows off kaiju and jaegers
So that new trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was full of awesome and boat sword. The same goes for this super-big ...
Tribeca Capsule Review: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Sometimes I watch a film and wind up thinking about two things: length and medium. In terms of length, I wonder if a ...
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Tribeca Capsule Review: The Moment
If there was a marketing blurb for The Moment that could sell its strengths, it would probably say something like “Christopher Nolan’s Memento ...
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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 ...
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Tribeca Capsule Review: Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Richard Pryor is one of the best stand-up comedians of all time. Whether it’s an album like That N***er’s Crazy or the Live ...
Steven Soderbergh talks about the state of cinema
You may have heard that Steven Soderbergh made the keynote address at the San Francisco International Film Festival in which he talked about ...
New poster for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End
The World’s End will be hitting the US and the UK in August, and many of us can’t wait to finally see what ...
NYC: I Love You Man art exhibit at Bottleneck Gallery
This weekend, a new art show will be opening at the Bottleneck Art Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This one’s called I Love You ...