MOVIES: Lucky Seven for the Tribeca Film Festival
New York has never lacked for movies. From picture palacesto hole-in-the-wall art houses, there’s a place to see almost any kind ofmovie. But, until the Tribeca Film Festival started seven years ago, therewasn’t a big, fancy grab-bag festival to be found in the city. So, the city’smovie fans trudged to Cannes, Sundance and To...
MOVIES: Shane Meadows on "Somers Town"
In "This Is England," which graced many top-ten lists last year, Shane Meadows told his own life story of growing up in a working class neighborhood in the north of England, where skinhead culture appealed to wayward youth looking for a community.In "Somers Town," Meadows takes on a contemporary story, set in the forgotten ne...
MOVIES: Baby Mama, no NYC drama
Imagine for a moment that it was your job to choose which film would open the 7th annual Tribeca Film Festival. What would you choose: A gritty, edgy drama that personified urban living in the Greatest City In The World? Or perhaps a brilliant foreign film, filled with complicated characters and nuance, but one that deftly reaches the very core ...
MOVIES: Pirates vs Sharks
The Tribeca Talks Industry panel titled “Click to View: The Future of New Media” grappled with the competing interests of all those who plug into the internet—users, artists, old school media companies and the new media folks.
When it comes to internet-related media, the biggest issue for industry types is piracy. And the corr...
MOVIES: Bart Got Room @ Tribeca
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the whole “prom-disaster” teen movie genre.
Unfortunately, it’s the premise of Bart Got a Room, which is otherwise a quite interesting film, which had its world premiere at Tribeca.
As far as I’m concerned, the whole prom element is simply boring and over-done. Howe...


