The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections, projects in the new Storyscapes section and Special Screenings. The 12th edition of the Festival will take place from April 17 to April 28 in New York City.   The Spotlight section features 33 films — 21...

  So, this is a chapter from my thesis. The academically inclined might be interested.   CHAPTER IV Entangled Identities and Cyborg Territories “In myth the meaning is distorted by the concept” Roland Barthes, Mythologies (122)   This chapter will focus on hybrid identities and couplings which challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. I...

Directed by Jon Wright, GRABBERS tells the story of Ciarán O’Shea, a charming but heavy-drinking local Garda who is tasked with greeting Lisa Nolan, a straight-laced young officer who has just arrived to a small fishing village off the West coast of Ireland. Not that there’s much for them to do, aside from dealing with the occasional drunk, and...

“I didn’t quite know I’d be working on this sort of film…” British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) is flown to Italy to work on sound effects for extreme supernatural horror film ‘Il Vortice Equestra’. In an unfamiliar setting – where not only location and working conditions are uncommon to what he is used to, but the...

“No one is shocked by anything anymore.” Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America is a biting backlash against the dumbed down, celebrity obsessed world of reality TV and trashy talk shows. Divorced, diagnosed with a terminal tumour, and fired from his job after a gesture of friendship is misconstrued as sexual harassment, Frank (Joel Murray) is a...

Ian Clark’s Guinea Pigs is a horror with an interesting, and possibly exciting, premise. A group of strangers joining a clinical trial for an experimental drug at an isolated medical facility? Ooh, sounds good. Count me in. Unforseen side effects, you say? Sounds even better. With the medical facility staff nowhere to be found, this could be some crazy...

V/H/S opens on camcorder footage of a group of guys smashing up buildings and forcefully removing the clothes of a young woman they assault in a car park. Hints are made with regards to videoing sexual conquests and girlfriends. It’s quickly made clear they make their money through selling tapes of the women they exploit, and their world revolves around...

“We are all babies. We need to cut the umbilical cord and find the right tools. Scrape off the afterbirth and kick it off into the fourth dimension!” Given a briefing by Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films that included rules such as “We must never know the truth” and “It needs to blur the line between what is real and what is fake” The Fourth...

“It’s always the quiet places where the mad shit happens.” Opening with what appears to be an asteroid falling to earth, Jon Wright’s Grabbers doesn’t wait long before unleashing the scares and jumps. From fishermen being attacked at sea, to mutilated whales washing up on shore, it quickly becomes clear that all ain’t quite right with the waves...

First Position, Bess Kargman’s documentary delving into the lives of a selected handful of young dancers competing for scholarships, employment and prizes in one of the most prestigious annual ballet competitions, makes for captivating and fascinating viewing. Following a diverse group of aspiring professional dancers as they make their way to the finals of...