One: Never Underestimate Your Opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two: Take it outside. Three: Be nice. – Dalton’s three rules from Road House (1989) When it comes to DC Comics, there is an incredible pantheon of characters to pull from, each… Read More ›
2010’s Despicable Me introduced audiences to master villain Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell), his darling three adopted girls, and, most importantly, to the Minions. The all-yellow-bodied, seemingly indestructible, unserious, devoted assistants to Gru’s villainy took the world by storm and,… Read More ›
Trigger Warning: Those who’ve experienced sexual assault may find one sequence wherein this is discussed triggering. How many people figured out what they wanted to do at an early age and figured out how to turn it into a reality?… Read More ›
Black people taking an adventure in films, whether it be in fantasy films like the Harry Potter series , family films like The Goonies (1985), or on-the-road films like Stand By Me (1986), are almost non-existent. The running joke, as… Read More ›
“Fix your hearts or die.” – A popular quote created by storyteller David Lynch, adjusted from a line Lynch delivers within Twin Peaks: The Return It’s a rare thing when a piece of art fails its way into global success…. Read More ›
There is something to be said about a movie that swings for the fences but only ends up at first base. There is something admirable about going for something unnerving, uneasy, and straight-up weird, and just missing the mark. Having… Read More ›
Night After Night is an indie horror fan’s fever dream. Just as he did in his earlier directorial effort, I Trapped the Devil (2019), which impressed genre audiences, Josh Lobo proves that atmosphere and tension can be just as effective… Read More ›
There is nothing more difficult and pressuring than trying to balance your day-to-day life and infatuation while trying to be professional in a tense situation. Having its world premiere in the Shorts section of Tribeca Film Festival 2026, the question… Read More ›
In the spring of 1996, my grandfather won the lottery. Using my birthdate numbers as part of his winning ticket, he felt it was only right to ask me the one thing I wanted to do more than anything else…. Read More ›
“I never meant to be so bad to you One thing I said that I would never do A look from you, and I would fall from grace And that would wipe the smile right from my face …” –… Read More ›
What does it mean to be able to define your own borders? Borders themselves are a social construct, not geological. It requires a group of individuals to agree that one spot belongs to one party, while one an inch away… Read More ›
Back in the early 2000s, a treasure trove of Japanese animation titles took over North American video stores. Featuring stories involving various fantastical adventures, one subgenre (thanks to the international popularity of Sailor Moon) began to slowly make a bigger… Read More ›
Some would say that horror is having a moment — Obsession and Backrooms are both doing quite well with general audiences (as of the time of this writing), other high-quality works (I Saw The TV Glow; And Her Body Was… Read More ›
But I’ll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way But I would do anything for love But I won’t do that Oh, I won’t do that – “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t… Read More ›
Returning to Tribeca Film Festival, indie darling filmmaker/actor Edward Burns (She’s the One) arrives with the golf-based comedy Finnegan’s Foursome, having its world premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section. Burns is no stranger to the Tribeca festival, his previous films… Read More ›
Remember Black Mirror? Remember how we all collectively enjoyed the madness and occasionally psychotic things that happened in episodes of Black Mirror but then the show sort of imploded on itself and then, like modern-day Simpsons, had some great episodes… Read More ›
In a period where intellectual property theft is an issue for the layperson via techbros peddling artificial intelligence which scrapes the internet for its dataset and corporations are plagued by piracy, the concept of ownership exists in its most rocky… Read More ›
Born under a bad sign Been down since I began to crawl If it wasn’t for bad luck You know, I wouldn’t have no luck at all … – “Born Under a Bad Sign” by Albert King Fatalism tells us… Read More ›
When we were younger, we all had those aspirations of “making it big.” Some of us wanted to be astronauts, some of us wanted to be movie stars, some of us wanted to be lawyers, and some of us wanted… Read More ›
Shawn Spencer: Good morning, detectives! Collecting donations for the Policeman’s Ball? Carlton Lassiter: We don’t have balls. Shawn Spencer: I honestly have no response for that. Carlton Lassiter: Need I remind you, Mr. Spencer, what happens when you interfere with… Read More ›