The Lights are Still On — 9 Capsules from the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival this year has been…weird. Naturally, certain changes were inevitable thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the festival’s scrambled response resulted in an unusual system where only major, triple-A publications were given access to their complete screener…

Highlights from the 2018 Athena Film Festival

People filled New York’s Barnard College’s basement theater to its seams this weekend, attending films and events celebrating female activists and filmmakers. With special events featuring speakers like Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King and former prime minister of New Zealand…

Preview: The 8th Annual Athena Film Festival

Now more than ever, we’re seeing more minorities in fields that were once inaccessible– save for a select few who broke barriers. With politics, sports, education and more all changing, it only seems natural that the filmmaking industry is among…

Movie Review: Little Evil

Having found hilarious footing with the surprise gem Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, writer-director Eli Craig enters his sophomore project with a potentially gut-busting idea: newly married stepfather Gary (Adam Scott) has to deal with the possibility that his new…

Movie Review: Patti Cake$

Boy do I love this movie. Patti Cake$ is an optimistic Fish Tank, a hopeful Whiplash, a Jersey girl Once, a less rapey Saturday Night Fever. It’s joyous and hilarious and wildly depressing. And you should see it at the…