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“How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” Review (NYAFF 2024): A Young Man Becomes...
With a title like How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, you’d probably expect this to be a dark comedy or a drama with...
From the John Archives – NYCC 2016: The Future of Transformers
Originally posted on Agents of Geek on October 19, 2016While the 1980’s seems a scant 30 years ago, many of us who were children...
“Dìdi” Review (New York Asian Film Festival 2024)
Sean Wang’s first feature, Dìdi, not only won two awards at Sundance including the audience award, but also premiered right when he was nominated...
“Kalki 2898 AD” Review: A Sci-Fi Stew With a Dash of the Divine
Combining science fiction and supernatural forces is a common occurrence in a lot of genre fiction, but in Kalki 2898 AD, well, the title...
“Thelma” Review: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Old
When Josh Margolin’s grandmother Thelma got a call from a phone scammer, they were thankfully able to stop her before any money was taken....
“Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme” Review: How To Succeed In Business With Lying
The Hollywood idea of “fake it till you make it” is taken to horrifying extremes in the new documentary Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi...
Animation (and the Rest) At Tribeca 2024 Part 3: Shorts, ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!...
The animated shorts program returned to Tribeca this year, which as always was curated and hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The shorts varied from the...
Animation at Tribeca Festival 2024 Part 2: Boys Go to Jupiter
Boys Go to Jupiter is something rare these days: an animated feature with a fully unique vision. The first and self-financed feature from artist...
Animation at Tribeca Festival 2024 Part 1: Mars
This year’s Tribeca Festival featured over 90 feature film premieres, in addition to the usual selection of television shows, video games, and virtual reality...
“Kim’s Video” Review: Tale of the Tape (and DVD)
David Redmon is the exact kind of cinephile who would make a movie like Kim’s Video, perhaps the most stranger-than-fiction documentary about film in...