TIFF 2019 Movie Review: Tom Hanks makes A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood a Place We’d All Like to Call Home

The fact that the biographical drama A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood exists shows just how hungry we are for what the man at its center represented. Fred Rogers, or Mr. Rogers, as the public knew him, radiated kindness and…

“The Clapper” Cast Interviews with Tracy Morgan, Brenda Vaccaro and More

Previously, we sat down in an exclusive interview with The Clapper writer (of the novel and film) and director Dito Montiel and star Russell Peters. Here are other interviews we grabbed with Tracy Morgan, Brenda Vaccaro, and Russell Peters as well. The…

Six things I learned from starting a film festival

Unlike other jobs, it’s kind of hard to stumble into founding a film festival, or directing one. It’s certainly not a job that I ever thought I would do. You could say it born from a lot of frustration. I’d…

2015 Independent Film Festival Boston

The 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston is back in town between April 22nd and April 29th, and it’s serving up an amazing crop of films. From feature films, Sundance darlings, documentaries, and shorts, the lineup is stacked, offering up something for…

Third Annual First Time Fest Winners

The third annual First Time Fest took place in New York City this past weekend; a film festival that celebrates first time filmmakers, whether they are first time directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers, and producers. The festival holds a competition…

Tribeca ’14 Review: 5 to 7

New York City, impoverished writers, French exotic women: all have been romanticized in film countless times ever since the cinematic medium was invented. 5 to 7, directed by Victor Levin, has combined each and every one of those clichés and…

Tribeca 2014 Review | Shorts: Handle with Care

These were five short films about stories that require very delicate care in the more hefty of life’s situations.   Scratch Irish filmmaker, Philip Kelly, premiered his second short film about a robbery at a convenience store goes awry because…