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…
Tribeca Review: The Farthest
The idea of outer space is already an interesting and beloved topic in film. When a filmmaker takes the rawness and uncertainty of space and combines it with the power and emotions of a documentary, you get Emer Reynolds’s The…
Tribeca: “Pilgrimage” Interview
At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival I had the honor to sit down with a very talented director named Brenden Muldowney and one of my favorite actors Jon Bernthal to talk about their new film Pilgrimage. This was the highlight of my…
Cast and Crew Interviews From the Film ‘Chuck’
Rocky. Rocky II. Rocky III. Rocky IV….I could keep going and somehow we’ll end with Creed, but that doesn’t matter. What does, however, is who Rocky was inspired after, and what that man has to lay claim to fame. Chuck Wepner is his name. He’s the man…