Each year, usually sometime around Mother’s Day weekend, Hollywood churns out a well-meaning if bland offering specifically designed for older audiences. Rising above the comfortable charm of the basi…
IFF Boston Review: Lemon
The brilliance of Janicza Bravo’s Lemon is clear juxtaposed against another IFF Boston pick – the Alison Brie-Aubrey Plaza vehicle The Little Hours. Both films play in an absurdist sandbox, boos…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Curmudgeons’ review
Danny DeVito. The late David Margulies. A senior citizen home. Love. Curmudgeons. Need I say more? Written by first time writer Joshua Conkel, the short stars DeVito and Margulies as Jackie and Ralphi…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: NY Shorts Program
Of the many films the Tribeca Film Festival shows, one of the biggest categories that often gets overlooked is the shorts category. Shorts are most definitely much harder to make considering their lim…
TV Review: The Mindy Project 3×02 – “Annette Castellano is my nemesis”
Meeting the parents is never an easy feat. Especially if your boyfriend is a Catholic mama’s boy from Staten Island. That’s the major dilemma this week on The Mindy Project, as Danny’s mom, Annette Ca…