If Great Britain truly is, as Louis de Bernières describes it, “an immense lunatic asylum” in love with its own eccentricities, one need only look to the Scottish Isle of Todday for proof. Thrown so far out into the Atlantic…
10 Years Later: In Defense of Spider-Man 3
Much like X-men 3: The Last Stand and The Matrix Revolutions, Spider-Man 3 was initially received as yet another disappointing trilogy conclusion during the mid-2000s. Given the tumultuous development of a planned fourth installment, it seemed that the third Sam…
Tribeca Review: When God Sleeps
As the title suggests, Till Schauder’s When God Sleeps is less about exiled Iranian musician Shahin Najafi than it is a portrait of a man grasping for faith, grasping for purpose in the midst of unthinkable persecution. In 2012, Iran…
Tribeca Review: Aardvark
Starring the typically delightful Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto and John Hamm, Aardvark, directed by Brian Shoaf completely squanders their collective talents with a astoundingly dumb film. Despite any hints of chemistry between Slate and Hamm and and a particularly winsome turn from…
Movie Review: My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
In a fascinating essay on Criterion.com, director Dash Shaw talks about how Rene Laloux’s Fantastic Planet inspired his love for “limited animation.” He writes, “You can watch the hatching change in this abstract, stoner-y way and just appreciate the drawings…
Movie Review: Little Boxes
Racial profiling has an interesting inverse effect on the victim and the offender. The offender uses racial profiling to group black people together into one definite set of stereotypes because he or she thinks they’re all the same. But, according…
Tribeca Review: The Boy Downstairs
We’ve seen this woman in a hundred movies, mostly mumblecore dramas and indie rom-coms. A mid-to-late twentysomething, she’s invariably white and thin. Her hair is usually the most disheveled part of her appearance, being just unkempt enough to give her…