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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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    Miklós Jancsó Retrospective at Metrograph Theater

    In 2020 six of Jancsó’s films were restored by the Hungarian National Film Archive and they begin a theatrical run at New York City’s Metrograph theater January 14.

    Top 10 Mystery Novels: Oct. 18, 2021

    Here are the top ten bestselling mystery novels for this week, according to Publishers Weekly.

    Scary Monsters: Comics for Halloween

    Two brilliant recent graphic novels about monsters. Published earlier this year, Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on this graphic novel for 35 years and met...

    Night Vision Goggles

    Every spy and detective could  benefit from a good pair of night vision goggles. There are some very expensive ones out there but this...