Movie Review: The Phenom — Trauma and healing on the baseball diamond

Usually films revolving around patient-psychiatrist relationships climax with a shouting match. The patient, weary enough to let their emotional guard down, lashes out. Sometimes it’s toward the psychiatrist. Sometimes it’s toward themselves. And like a fencer spotting an opening, the…

2016 Tribeca Film Festival: The Phenom

The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival saw its fair share of first time filmmakers as well as returning and well experienced actors and directors. In an eclectic ensemble of actors, writers and directors, The Phenom stars Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti…

Tribeca ’14 Review: Glass Chin

Directed by Noah Buschel and starring a star in the making Corey Stoll, Glass Chin is unsettling, minimalist, fascinating and difficult to decipher. The story focuses on the character Bud, played by Stoll, who when at the top of his…