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TRIBECA FESTIVAL | “The Swell Season”

“It excels for its moments of raw, biting humor"

When “Once,” the small story of an Irish busker singing earnest songs who falls for an earnest Czech immigrant was released in 2006 it enchanted even the most hard-hearted movie critics. It wasn’t just diehard folk fans who wanted to eat “Once’s” two characters alive. Everyone of every temperament, style and taste loved “Once’s” stripped-down approach to the musical, the lack of grandiose dance ... more >

NETFLIX: “Master of None Presents: Moments in Love” (Season 3 boldly goes in a new direction and this is a take on that)

On the messiness of domestic life and sentiment

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon Season Three of Aziz Ansari’s excellent Netflix series “Master of None” is quite the departure. Season One was a lite and funny take on the New York dating lives of Ansari’s Dev and his close friends Denise and Arnold. Season Two was a B&W love letter to sixties Italian cinema. Where creator, writer, ... more >

INTERVIEW: Burk Sharpless, Matt Sazama and the cast of “Lost in Space 2”

"We can all relate to this family"

The producers and showrunners insist they didn’t plan for the second season of “Lost in Space” to debut Christmas week, but a yuletide story element in the first episode of Season 2 made it a rather fortuitous happenstance. “We heard that Netflix put us in their Christmas window, because they were so excited about the audience we might get,” said series co-creator and executive producer Burk ... more >

NETFLIX WATCH: Find out the latest about “UMBRELLA ACADEMY,” Season 2

The dysfunctional family is advancing to Season 2
Series was developed by Steve Blackman and Jeremy Slater

In 1986 forty-three children were born simultaneously from forty-three different women who weren’t pregnant. Seven of these children were adopted by billionaire Reginald Hargreeves. In order to save the world, Hargreeves founds The Umbrella Academy, a school where young children grow up, develop their power and save people. In Season 1, Klaus, Luther, Allison, Diego, number 5, Vanya and Ben ... more >

“Game of Thrones” season 8 to begin airing tonight on HBO

A new season is coming

What's "Game of Thrones," you ask? This Shakesperean tragedy with plenty of parallels to be drawn with our century, chockfull of epic battles, sex and betrayal and set in a fantasy medieval-type atmosphere, depicts the epochal clashes between power-hungry monarchies. Each one wants to seize the iron throne, all this action taking place on a continent named Westeros. Bi-partisan? Mythological? ... more >

Kurds of Nashville | FESTIVALS

Southern Fest to include Kurdish films

Kurd cinema in Tennessee? Exactly: who knew? Aside from its main program which already includes a gazillion titles the now-venerable Nashville International Film Festival (this year marks its 44th edition) scheduled for April 18-25 will also be screening fifteen Kurdish films down at its Regal Green Hills Cinema location, in partnership with the MPAA. Fest organizers have announced a special ... more >

“It’s a really big ask to say, hey, put your trust in me to tell this story” (filmmaker AJ Schnack on the making of “Long gone summer”) 

Capturing a slice of MLB history

Major League Baseball’s 2020 season has been mothballed for months because of covid-19, and even when the truncated schedule begins in late July, it’s doubtful that, for health reasons, there will be any fans in attendance. There’s no way that filmmaker AJ Schnack could have foreseen this when he started work on his “30 for 30” documentary “Long Gone Summer” a few years ago, but it may have ... more >