★★★ No Future is one of the more interesting dramas on the 2021 Tribeca Film slate. Led by a trio of great performances from Charlie Heaton, Catherine Keener, and Rosa Salazar, writer/director duo Andrew Irvine and Mark Smoot craft a film that tackles addiction, grief, and relapse. While the simplistic script takes few chances on … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: No Future
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Tribeca 2021: Catch the Fair One
★★★★ (Written by Allison Brown) Catch the Fair One caught me off guard as one of the stronger Tribeca contenders I’ve seen yet! With its dark, gritty and gloomy turns, it is impossible to not be engaged in Kaylee’s struggle to find her missing sister, Weeta (Mainaku Borrero). The film invokes notes of Taken, with a female edge; … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: Catch the Fair One
Tribeca 2021: Love Spreads
★★ If a band struggling to work through writer’s block sounds like your idea of a good time, Tribeca’s Love Spreads might scratch your musically-inclined itch. The quirky dramedy charts successful band Glass Heart as they go on a 5 week retreat at Rockfield Studios to record their all-important sophomore album. Arguing over song compositions, … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: Love Spreads
Tribeca 2021: Dating & New York
★★★★ Once Upon a Time in New York City… thus begins the creative and quirky romantic comedy, Dating & New York. Narrated by doorman Cole, (Jerry Ferrara, who I knew as Entourage’s Turtle), we are plunged into the waters of the modern dating world via the latest app, MeetCute. Curly-haired cutie Milo (Jaboukie Young-White), who … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: Dating & New York
Interview: Poser Directors & Actress Bobbi Kitten
This week, we got together with some of the creatives behind the excellent new Tribeca music thriller, Poser. It is a searing character study about timid Lennon (newcomer Sylvie Mix), as she starts up a podcast to “investigate and research” underground musicians. Lennon’s journey and exploration for her recordings transforms into an obsession. Lennon begins … Continue reading Interview: Poser Directors & Actress Bobbi Kitten
Film Review: Stalker
★★★★ If 2020’s Spree didn’t already make you weary of rideshare services, Stalker is here to remind you: you really can’t trust your drivers! Don’t say hi to them if you see them randomly lurking in your neighborhood, and certainly, don’t take it upon yourself to start arranging hangouts with your Uber drivers in local … Continue reading Film Review: Stalker
Tribeca 2021: Agnes
★★★ Agnes, the new horror drama from director Mickey Reece, debuted at 2021’s Tribeca Film Festival. It’s a confounding movie, and one that’s even more difficult to review. This is mainly due to a weird mish-mash of tones and a gear-shift to the narrative that left me baffled. From the opening, I found myself engaged … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: Agnes
Tribeca 2021: Roaring 20s
★★ (Written by Allison Brown) It has always been a dream of mine to go to Paris. Roaring 20s portrays a summer day in 2020, set in real time during the pandemic, in the life of a superfluous cast in this hot spot. The film is shot as one continuous piece, choreographed by Elisabeth Vogler, … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: Roaring 20s
Tribeca 2021: India Sweets and Spices
★★★★ India Sweets and Spices is just as charming as you’d expect from a title brimming with personality and cultural character drama. Sophia Ali plays Alia, an ambitious young Indian woman home for a theoretical relaxing summer break from UCLA. When she heads to her local shop to pick up biscuits for her mother’s party, … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: India Sweets and Spices
Tribeca 2021: A-Ha: The Movie
★★★★ A-Ha’s absolutely magical “Take on Me” and its stunning art-inspired music video ranks among my favorite songs of all time. I didn’t realize just how little I knew about the first Norweigan band to make it big worldwide, or how little of their catalogue I had explored ahead of time. The fact that I … Continue reading Tribeca 2021: A-Ha: The Movie