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Tribeca 2018 Movie Review: Yellow is Forbidden
What does Guo Pei want? This is the question lurking at the heart of Pietra Brettkelly’s new documentary on the exacting Chinese fashion designer who first skyrocketed into the public eye after designing Rihanna’s infamous canary yellow dress to the…
Tribeca 2018 Movie Review: Cargo
Martin Freeman made his career playing affable fish-out-of-water—friendly, helpful fellows, but basically audience proxies replicating the viewer’s incredulity at outlandish people and things. He’s the perpetual straight man, the sounding board against which The Office’s David Brent and Sherlock’s eponymous…
2017 Tribeca: Michael Moore Talks Bowling for Columbine
America tends to have a problem with guns. While the United Kingdom correctly banned handguns after its first and only school shooting, the United States has yet to understand the correlation with mass shootings and gun ownership. Nonetheless, documentary filmmaker…
Gilbert Gottfried and Neil Berkeley at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
We know him from Aflac. We know him from Aladdin. And we know him from his terribly hilarious jokes. But most of all, we know his voice, and it’s not until you’ve seen Gilbert that you get to find out what he actually sounds…
Tribeca 2017 Virtual Arcade Feature
Apart from my visit to the offices of Moth + Flame for my interview with director Kevin Cornish, I stopped by the Virtual Arcade last Sunday to see the latest projects being developed for Virtual Reality platforms and I was…
Tribeca Exclusive: Interview with Dito Montiel and Russell Peters
The Clapper tells the story of Eddie Krumble, a professional audience clapper in a talk show who loses his job and reevaluates his life. The film stars Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried, Russell Peters, Tracy Morgan, Alan Thicke (his last film), Brenda…