Poms Movie Review: A thoughtful and sincere film about aging and friendship

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 basic retiree fare, director Zara Hayes’s Poms uses feel-good clichés as a…

TV Review: Wayward Pines 2×01 “Enemy Lines”

Most of us are fortunate enough to have a place we can call home. It’s earned this title not because it is where we live, but the significance it carries. Material things aren’t what make a home, it’s the people…

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 limited screen time and the need to fit…

2014 Tribeca Film Festival: Love Is Strange

In the New York Premiere of the narrative film Love Is Strange, Ira Sachs shines in his writing and directing of the challenges faced by two mature gay men, played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow. Ben (Lithgow) and George…