Marcel The Shell With Shoes On is likely is the next great comfort film. Beginning as a comedic digital short in 2010, director Dean Fleischer Camp and writer/actress Jenny Slate’s anthropomorphic shell took the world by storm. It’s been quite some time since audiences have last seen Marcel, but it’s made clear from the very […]
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TRIBECA 2022 | THREE HEADED BEAST Tackles The Importance of Open Communication
The brilliance of Three Headed Beast will fully reveal its brilliance at varying points in time to different audience members. But make no mistake, one way or another, this film will announce its presence to a room in a way that has nearly left me speechless. This film extends itself far beyond a great debut, […]
TRIBECA 2022 | VENGEANCE Is B.J. Novak Tackling Every Facet of Online Culture
B.J. Novak has always been known for his sharp writing. As one of the original writers on The Office, his all-time role as Ryan Howard needs no further introduction. After creating his own show The Premise, writing a New York Times best-selling children’s book (The Book with No Pictures) and directing a handful of television […]
TRIBECA 2022 | YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER Is A Spellbinding Story Of Love and Faith
With You Can Live Forever, writer/director duo Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky craft a spellbinding film full of longing, faith, and drama. Growing up a queer teenager in a Jehovah’s Witness community, Watts described this film as, “The movie I always wanted to see as a teenager”. It’s clearly a film based off the impact […]
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO: Beautifully Tragic In Every Way
In Gus van Sant’s seminal classic from 1991, My Own Private Idaho, a young Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix are searching for truth, even if they have to lie, cheat, and steal their way to get there at times. What perhaps may be one of the greatest road trip films ever made, the duo do […]
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Breaks Down The Barrier of Art
Why do we as humans like horror? There’s a rather simple draw to watching a scary movie, or something like taking a trip through a haunted house: the fear is all there is. There’s no directly present danger causing that visceral reaction in our bodies, aside from the simulated one in front of us. To […]