Miracle Workers Review: Steve Buscemi and Co. Introduce “Existential Doom” to Heaven

Miracle Workers gives us a heaven that is run like a factory, with the majority of angels in the role of office drones and low-level factory workers. Most of them have been there for thousands of years, but their work…

Lean On Pete Movie Review: Andrew Haigh spins a beautiful and tragic coming of age tale

What tremendous lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering sense of empty space along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew Haigh’s latest feature film. Introspective,…

The Death of Stalin Movie Review: A biting and farcical satire

If anyone can turn the reign of an oppressive dictator into an uproarious farce, it’s Scottish writer/director Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). His latest project, a cynical political spoof, makes great strides in further cementing the filmmaker as one…

TIFF Movie Review: Lean On Pete

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. What great lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering doubt along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew Haigh’s…

Movie Review: The Boss Baby

Let’s face facts. Dreamworks Animation has evolved into the studio that makes memes come true. Films that began as genuine attempts to create a more sardonic cousin to the more earnest fare of Disney/Pixar have been retroactively reduced into a…

New Trailer Out for ‘The Boss Baby’

Alec Baldwin, wearing a power suit, yelling out maniacal things at people beneath him. No, this isn’t another skit of Baldwin playing Trump on SNL, but rather, a movie featuring Baldwin as a genius baby trying to get the better…

2016 Tribeca Film Festival: NY Shorts Program

Of the many films the Tribeca Film Festival shows, one of the biggest categories that often gets overlooked is the shorts category. Shorts are most definitely much harder to make considering their limited screen time and the need to fit…