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The Sensitives(2017) Tribeca 2017

— Disappointing look at people who are so sensitive to the chemicals and magnetic and electrical fields that they are forced to either live in far away places where these things don't exist or they…
The Sensitives(2017) Tribeca 2017

Dare to be Different (2017) Tribeca 2017

— In the early 1980's WLIR was a Long Island based progressive rock station that switched formats to all New Music (New Wave) because in the proceeding half decade their shows playing the new music…
Dare to be Different (2017) Tribeca 2017

One Percent More Humid (2017) Tribeca 2017

— The title refers to a line said by one of the characters which goes "If it was one percent more humid we'd all drown" I kind of understand from her point of view what that means in cont…
One Percent More Humid (2017) Tribeca 2017

Steve's brief word on The Dinner (2017) Tribeca 2017

— I have a lot of issues with THE DINNER. The film is about the dinner between two estranged brothers one a college professor (Steve Coogan) and the other Senator (Richard Gere) at a delicate point in …
Steve's brief word on The Dinner (2017) Tribeca 2017

Hounds of Love (2017) Tribeca 2017

— Based on a a true story thriller about the kidnapping of a teenage girl by a deranged couple who plan to hold her for a certain amount of time before killing her. Cut off from the world she does what…
Hounds of Love (2017) Tribeca 2017

Buster's Mal Heart (2016) Tribeca 2017 (possible spoilers)

— I'm puzzled by BUSTER'S MAL HEART but not for the reason the filmmakers would like. What puzzles me is not the crazy plot, rather that the film is generating the level of talk it is, the film…
Buster's Mal Heart (2016) Tribeca 2017 (possible spoilers)

Psychopaths (2017) Tribeca 2017

— The press screening for PSYCHOPATHS  was a strangely quiet affair. Despite being packed the audience simply sat in their seats and stared at the screen as if it was a average domestic drama. I mentio…
Psychopaths (2017) Tribeca 2017

Letters From Baghdad (2016) DOC NYC 2016

— Portrait of Gertrude Bell who was a leading authority on the Middle East during the early part of the 20th century. She was one of the people involved in the redrawing of the lines of the various cou…
Letters From Baghdad (2016) DOC NYC 2016

SOUNDBREAKING: STORIES FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF RECORDED MUSIC DOC NYC 2016

— Episode 1- The Art of Recording Episode 2- Painting with Sound As a special event two episodes of SOUNDBREAKING were run at DOC NYC. The series is one that was produced by George Martin and when seen…
SOUNDBREAKING: STORIES FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF RECORDED MUSIC DOC NYC 2016

Nathanael Hood ponders whether we should CHEER UP at DOC NYC

— With a little re-editing you could probably market Christy Garland’s Cheer Up as a cinéma vérité sports drama instead of as a documentary. It has all the trappings of a fiction film, it just happens …
Nathanael Hood ponders whether we should CHEER UP at DOC NYC

THOSE WHO JUMP (Les Sauteurs) (2016) DOC NYC 2016

— After several months of trying to cross the border between Morocco and Spanish controled enclave of Melilla Abou Bakar Sidibé is given a camera by Moritz Siebert and Estephan Wagner and asked to fil…
THOSE WHO JUMP (Les Sauteurs) (2016) DOC NYC 2016

In Brief: Vampyres (2015)

— Remake of the 1974 lesbian vampire movie has more sex and more blood than the original. Where the original film had a couple coming upon the pair of vampires living in a castle, here a trio of camper…
In Brief: Vampyres (2015)

In Brief: Detention of the Dead (2012)

— Based on a stage play this is a semi-immobile zombie film about a bunch of students trapped in a school during a zombie attack. An odd mix of comedy and horror didn't work for me largely because …
In Brief: Detention of the Dead (2012)

Elle (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

— Director Paul Verhoeven and his clues a long way away from the audience What Paul Verhoeven's provocation of a film is doing in the talk of films almost certain to get an Oscar nomination is one …
Elle (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

A messy review about the very messy My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

— Dash Shaw I'm going to apologize at the start of this review and warn you it's messy. It's kind of all over the place- which is how I see the MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL.... I think the film is…
A messy review about the very messy My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

Ornithologist (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

— THE ORNITHOLOGIST left the audience at the press screening shaking our heads wondering what we just saw as the film shifts from the tale of the title character into a religious allegory and spiritual…
Ornithologist (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

All the Cities of the North (2016) New York Film Festival 2016 Projections

— Getting one screening as part of the New York Film Festival's Projection series ( Tickets here ) ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH will either thrill you or bore you to tears. Its a moody art film wher…
All the Cities of the North (2016) New York Film Festival 2016 Projections

One Eyed Jacks (1961) New York Film Festival 2016

— I think the copywriter has a strange definition of great I suspect that if Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg hadn't paid for the restoration ONE EYED JACKS wouldn't be playing the New York…
One Eyed Jacks (1961) New York Film Festival 2016

The morally reprehensible THE REHEARSAL (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

— A minor character and the semi-important head of the school Alison Maclean's THE REHEARSAL not only has all sorts of plot problems but it is also one of the most morally reprehensible films in a …
The morally reprehensible THE REHEARSAL (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

Lots of contrary words about Toni Erdmann (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

— Dennis Lim and director Maren Ade TONI ERDMANN is one of the biggest disappointments of the last few years. Word out of Cannes and elsewhere was that God herself had come down and manifested herself …
Lots of contrary words about Toni Erdmann (2016) New York Film Festival 2016

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