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 Ralphie respectively, two aging seniors in a nursing home…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: ‘The Family Fang’ review
Performance artists. What good are they anyhow? It’s not like they put their lives on the line or make a strong statement about anything going on in current events. It’s not like they tend to become wildly notorious for their acts, nor…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: A Hologram for the King
Tom Hanks has become such a universal actor that you just can expect him to play any role and know that you’ll be entertained– even if one of those roles calls for him to pop a giant cyst growing on…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Greenleaf
What do you get when the producer and writer behind Six Feet Under and Lost teams up with Oprah Winfrey? A dysfunctional Christian family that may or may not be laundering money, of course! After almost two decades of starring in films and as…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Youth in Oregon
What happens when your father decides that it’s time to end it all, that he’s tired of causing you and your family so much grief and pain, that he himself is tired of suffering and just wants, well, to die?…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Elvis & Nixon
Until February 1971, President Richard Nixon had meetings in the Oval Office unrecorded, unable to be called upon by him and his staff as well as those that came after him. One of those such meetings included the December 21,…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: The Phenom
The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival saw its fair share of first time filmmakers as well as returning and well experienced actors and directors. In an eclectic ensemble of actors, writers and directors, The Phenom stars Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti…
