Since its birth in 2002, the Tribeca Film Festival has been the place for brash independent films to be exposed to the public.

Sarah Jessica Parker can’t take her eyes away from the view. Central Park, in all of its green, springtime glory, looks like a mere patch of grass from the 36th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where journalists from around the country have gathered in large, high-ceilinged rooms to talk sex with the women who […]

One of the worst things to see at the theater is a movie with an identity crisis. There are just enough high points to keep it from being terrible, and just enough low points to keep you from praising it.
Run Fat Boy Run is two things: the new Simon Pegg movie and the new Michael […]

Black Lily, Inc. is like that girl who always exudes cool, even in summer humidity and under the most David Bowie-and-Queen-duet kind of pressure.
She’s an artist, a musician, a filmmaker and a trendsetter. She’s politically aware and in-your-face about it, too. Her progressive ways of thinking and dressing are often points of envy, even dislike […]

The 17th-annual Philadelphia Film Festival will arguably be the biggest and most influential one yet. The festival will run from April 3 to April 15 and feature more than 260 films that capture the crux of Philadelphia’s culture.
“We program for Philadelphians,” said Ray Murray, the artistic director of the Philadelphia Film Society. “We seem […]

REVIEW – Michel Gondry has done it again. The ever-innovative Academy Award-winning writer and director, known for his masterful creativity and command of mise en scène, has filmed another gem of a movie, a heartfelt comedy that is as visually appealing as it is charming in script.
Be Kind Rewind, which stars an eclectic crop […]

LOS ANGELES – It’s a Saturday morning at L.A.’s plush Four Seasons Hotel, and Britney Spears isn’t around to make trouble. She was rushed by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center just two days before, and it’s all the bellhops and desperate housewives in the lobby can talk about. But there’s another blonde in town, and […]

REVIEW - In the era of the big-budget blockbuster movie, it is hard to find a film that doesn’t rely on explicit sex, violence and car chases to draw in audiences and make money. It’s always refreshing to find a good film with a simple story that still has mass audience appeal. Such a movie […]

REVIEW - In the first act of John Cusack’s one-two patriarchal-tearjerker punch this season, Martian Child (soon to be followed by the Oscar-buzzed Grace Is Gone) shows Cusack in his first major role as a father, and it’s just enough to make you fall in love.
In a movie that explores the difficult guidance decisions a […]

NEW YORK - John Cusack walked into the room, listening to his iPhone. He’s deeply involved in the new Bruce Springsteen album, Magic, and sat down looking reluctant to pull away from either the Boss or his shiny gadget. Fumbling with the device for a moment, figuring out how to turn it off, he removed […]