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Johnny Simmons vs. Adam Goldberg: A Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch

April 29, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Tonight’s fight features promising newcomer Johnny Simmons against aging champion Adam Goldberg. Johnny is a rookie, he had a small role in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and… I want to say… “Juno”? No, it was “Jennifer’s Body,” and he was also in “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.” Adam Goldberg has been in everything…

Filed Under: Critic, Featured Tagged With: adam goldberg, johnny simmons, tribeca

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Eat Insects And Die: A Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch

April 26, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Did you know that the Earth is running out of food? If you are a diligent scholar of UN World Health Organization reports, or ever watched “Soylent Green” (1973) late at night while scarfing down Doritos, you know that the human population of the planet is increasing faster than the world food supply. Clearly we…

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Fairytales And Nightmares: A Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch

April 20, 2016 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

It has begun. The 15th, or quindecennial edition of the Tribeca Film Festival has finally arrived. But as you can see by my use of the term quindecennial, I am a bad boy who doesn’t play by the rules. Going to Tribeca to watch a Film is far too obvious a move on the opening…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: allumet, seances, the turning forest, tribeca

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Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch: Dead And Buried

May 6, 2015 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival has been over for a week now: the smoke has cleared, the dust has settled, and the excitement has… done whatever excitement does when it’s finished. While there are 50-odd weeks to wait for the next edition of the festival, we can kill time by sorting out the Floyd Mayweathers…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: diana agron, dirty weekend, far from men, Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, sleeping with other people, tribeca, tumbledown

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Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch: Girl, You’ll Be A Stripper Soon

April 27, 2015 by Erik Schlittner Leave a Comment

Shockingly, it turns out that there is a giant chunk of real estate in between New York and San Francisco. It’s a place they call Murka (sp?) and is populated by…well, mostly strippers and drug dealers, apparently. These “Murkan” people live in trailer parks like characters in a Talking Heads song, and they attempt to…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: bare, dixieland, faith hill, the driftless area, tribeca, zooey deschanel

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Tribeca Film Festival Dispatch: Gorgeous Brunettes, Your Biological Clock Is Ticking!

April 22, 2015 by Erik Schlittner 1 Comment

Judging from a cross-section of Tribeca Film Festival movies I have seen (sample size: two), the dominant theme of the Fest seems to be the mating rituals of gorgeous brunettes with ticking biological clocks. With no time to spare, and eccentric families spurring them on, the gals fall in love with loquacious comic actors, as…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: jason sudeikis, lake bell, man up, rebecca hall, simon pegg, tribeca, tumbledown

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