Back to more fun at the San Diego Bird Festival! Last time I talked about all the wood duck action at Santee Lakes. I did get quite a few photos of wood ducks, but the main bird species seen at Santee Lakes (and my hotel) was the American coot. While we were at Santee, families came to "feed the duc...

Brussels was really groovy… everywhere you looked graffiti shot though your head, like flash photography …urgent suggestions, blueprints yet to be discovered… atrophied trees everywhere… the city was an album cover waiting to happen… A drug opera stuffed into a cuckoo clock… stacks of en...

The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

By Steven Zeitchik It's a little easier to sort through the Tribeca films now that there aren't 3,626 of them. But there are still a lot. So we'll filter them ever further and offer some of the more intriguing among the latest wave of announcements today (the fest unveiled its celeb-heav...

That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

The Flatpack festival properly launches this evening (Wednesday) with a Curzonora extravaganza at the Town Hall. I’ll let the programme explain: “Birmingham, 1901. Electric trams are making their debut on the Bristol Road, councillors are plotting to bring water all the way from Wales, a...

STEPH DEROSA: FAIRE GAME >>> Who in the hell came up with putting green dye in beer? Like St. Patrick’s day isn’t obnoxious enough with all its green-wearing, shamrock-having, pinch-me-if-I’m-not-into-all-this-shit-as-much-as-you-are attitude. Does America even know what St. Patrick r...

After its success debuting at SXSW such Judd Apatow projects as Forgetting Sarah Marshall last year and Knocked Up the year before, Universal Pics is taking advantage of the hip SXSW demo --and the fest's pre-summer time-frame--to promo two more flicks. The studio will screen the first-ever footage ...

El Festimad vuelve un año mas pero bajo otro nombre y otro formato. Llamado FestiMad 2M regresa después de 14 años a las salas madrileñas dentro de los festejos del 2 de Mayo. Esta edición se basara principalmente en su concurso FestiMad Taste, el cual tendrá lugar los días 1 y 2 de mayo en e...

On Monday, the in-transition Tribeca Film Festival announced its World Competition and Discovery sections, 38 films from what will be a slimmed-down 86 feature line-up. That's down from 174 films just three years ago.But amongst those 3 dozen-plus films are......