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“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...
HSVExpo Brings Fandom To The Rocket City!
When you think of Huntsville, most folks think of NASA (it’s not called the Rocket City for nothing). But for one blissful weekend it...
“The People’s Joker” Review: A Parody That’s No Joke
There was a time when the term “radical” could be applied to certain films and filmmakers that broke the mold of what the medium...