Tribeca Virtual Experience - Intimate, innovative, intelligent, and informative -- I am not at a loss of praises to sing for The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite. Making its world premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in its 2021 lineup of virtual reality experiences, The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite is one such VR [...]

Every good science fiction classic has had either an adorable kid that needs protecting, a lovable robot that is built for inspecting (the crew and the alien terrain, that is), or a shot of an object floating in space transitioning to a shot of an inanimate object that shows the evolution of man -- Settlers [...]

Tribeca 2021 Screening - Many artistic troupes matched out of the creative boon of expression that marked the 1960s and 70s, and one such artistic leader, Will Vinton, became the father (or illegitimate step-father, to some) of claymation, leading a team of artists and writers to revolutionize animation. Directed by Marq Evans, ClayDream follows Vinton's [...]

Screening at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival within its Narrative Feature category, No Man of God is a new Ted Bundy film that attempts to dive ever deeper into the mind of someone thought to be one of the most intelligent murderers of the modern era. Though new Ted Bundy narrative and documentary films seem [...]

Kata is a Japanese-language short film that is beautiful inside and out -- from dialogue, to setting, to the inner spirituality captured by the film's lead subject, Mahiro Takano. The film is practically a 6-minute monologue, however, its words of determination about a young woman's drive to learn karate kept me rapt on high. Kata, [...]

Originally screened at Tribeca 2021 as NO RUNNING, it was renamed OUTSIDERS - Like a great song that changes keys throughout its playing time, No Running (2021) changes tone, genres, and antagonists throughout the film, keeping the audience on their toes thanks to clever writing from Tucker Morgan. Directed by Delmar Washington as his first [...]