The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express, the founding sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 38 films to be presented among the 86 feature length and 46 short films at this year’s Festival. The titles unveiled include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition...

I was never a huge fan of any of the Godfather movies until I watched the entire trilogy over the period of a week. ( The Godfather - Part III is the dud of the series, infamously diminished by the casting of Sofia Coppola as Michael Corleone’s daughter. She can’t act. That’s not t...

While we've already long forgotten Righteous Kill—and the onerous sins of its one-sheet—England is only now becoming acquainted with its Pacino/DeNiro double-bed-shitting pleasures. It can't even seem to get an in-your-face tagline right. From BBC: The poster for Righteous Kill was displ...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S01E04) Okay, this was the best episode of In Plain Sight to date. Action-packed and filled with character revelations, if this is where In Plain Sight is going, it's going to definitely make it beyond this premiere season. The set up ha...

My second fray to the Hotel du Cap in Cap d'Antibes caught What Just Happened? writer-producer Art Linson and director Barry Levinson at the end of a long day of international press in advance of their closing night screening on Sunday. They were far more chipper than they were at Sundance, and wish...

The Tribeca Film Festival went as it had come: with another glitzy premiere. Merely two weeks after the festival encroached on our city with the much-hyped premiere of Baby Mama, the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer closed the festivities to an equally if not more star-treaded red carpet and windin...

Slate's Kim Masters is coming a tad late to the Robert DeNiro career saga. (Patrick Goldstein got there first.) Word is that DeNiro's move from CAA was inspired when Martin Scorsese won the Oscar for The Departed after he left the agency. Apparently, DeNiro does want to move in the direction of qual...

One trend that I have noticed over the years is that stand up comedians make really crappy movies. It didn’t use to be that way: Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Steve Martin all made some great movies during the 80s. However that has changed over the years, now stand up comedians are best sui...

As we put this week to bed, it's time to reflect, project, deflect and genuflect on the week that was... · Big week for Gorgeous George Clooney. His passion project, Leatherheads, disappointed at the box office (twice!), he was on the receiving end of a threatening phone call and his sand-lov...

Filed under: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Trailer Trash, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Trailers and Clips Nothing fancy this week. I'm tossing darts at the latest trailers and writing up whichever ones I hit. Time now for a random sampling. Righteous Kill Robert De Niro and Al P...