Michael Bay Thinks He"s Funny, But He"s Not

Pain and Gain: For the first time since The Rock, if not his first feature Bad Boys, Michael Bay has made a movie that cost less than $100 million. For the first time since Bad Boys, he"s opening a movie outside of the May-July prime summer corridor.…
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What Should You Catch at Tribeca This Weekend? Part II

The English TeacherDirected by Craig Zisk
It’s worth remembering that gifted artists come from somewhere, that the first 18 years of their lives follow a familiar cycle of school years. In The English Teacher, a prodigiously talented playwright returns to his hometown and reconnects with...

SPANISH Film and Conversation 10-week evening course starting April 2013

SPANISH Film and Conversation 10-week evening course starting April 2013
Event on 2013-04-16 16:30:00
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Back by popular demand, this spring we"re offering our fun and innovative conversation class in which students watch and discuss Spanish-language movies. The movies will be a mix of...

What"s Good and Bad at the Tribeca Film Festival Today?

ByzantiumDirected by Neil Jordan
Gemma Arterton has been, for the past few years, an odd bombshell in search of a good genre-role: after playing Strawberry Fields, the more fun and less-used Bond girl in Quantum of Solace, she took on gods and demons in Clash of the Titans and Hansel and...

Tribeca 2013: Prince Avalanche Hides the Seams Between Comedy and Poetry

David Gordon Green never really left us; he was even there in the 80s-VHS looseness of his recent experiments in Apatow-gang broad comedy, which started with Pineapple Express and continued with a couple of less well-regarded (but somewhat underrated) efforts. Regardless of the woodsy...

Someone’s Making A Documentary About That Crazy “Antiques Dealer” On Graham Avenue

Set in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Joe’s trinket shop symbolizes a fusion of two worlds: where traditional American-Italian ideals meet a new wave of hipsters. U R Not Alone depicts the evolution of an unlikely friendship between this controversial man and two young women and continues with...

The Best Old Movies On a Big Screen This Week

http://goo.gl/RqULxThe Mortal Storm (1940)Directed by Frank BorzageThis great American director worked under the influence of F.W. Murnau; from the German émigré he learned how Expressionist lighting and a moving camera could be used to show sweethearts uniting against a dangerous encroaching outer...

Just How Bad Will G.I. Joe 2 and The Host Be?

G.I. Joe: Retaliation: This is a sequel to the totally lousy initial attempt at mounting a G.I. Joe franchise from way back in 2009. Troubled productions that scrape their way to break-even status at the box office aren’t usually locks for sequels, and especially don’t tend to...