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    Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Documentaries & Shorts

    Suzannah Herbert’s "Natchez" deservedly won the best documentary award at last week's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a fun and trenchant but never preachy analysis of how racism still exists in the American South. Natchez, Mississippi was once a big cotton town but boll weevils in the 1930's destroyed the crops. It then turned into a tourist destination, offering tours of dozens of well-preserved Antebellum houses....

    Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Narrative Features

    Even with access to both the theater press screenings and Tribeca at Home app (for remote access), it was all I could do to catch two dozen of the films. (The app wasn't working for many users for several days and it would have been nice if they could have extended the days it was available for critics.) Here are my notes of my...
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    “House of Gucci” Blu-Ray & DVD

    Gucci is still one of the world’s most famous luxury goods brands, despite the fact that the Gucci family is no longer associated with...

    “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1946) & “Where There’s Life” (1947)

    I’ve always been a huge fan of Bob Hope. His comic persona seems to leap off the screen to me no matter how old...