Red diaper babies at Tribeca and off Broadway
The award-winning drama Finks is a fictionalized play by Joe Gilford based on the lives of his actor/comedian parents, Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were victims of the McCarthy-era blacklist.
"Iron Man 3" is more about the man behind the armor
In Iron Man 3, the rich playboy's arrogance costs him and those he cares about dearly.
Films about African Americans stand out at Tribeca Festival
Films at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival last month that highlighted prominent African Americans and their eventful lives were infused with this dilemma of choosing the right course of struggle against racism and injustice.
Tribeca Film Festival features new progressive movies
Now in its 12th year, the Tribeca Film Festival in lower Manhattan has grown to world prominence and offers a wide array of international cinema and world premieres.
Film sets "escape fires" to fix health care system
The part-educational/part call-to-action documentary, "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare," was shown on the campus of the AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine.
“Do the Math:” a review for Earth Day and beyond
The basic message of the article, tour, and film is that we only need to understand three numbers to know why action is required to address climate change.
"Free Angela" - what you do when wolves come after you
"Free Angela and all Political Prisoners," written and directed by Shola Lynch, brilliantly tells the story about the history-making struggle, to win Davis' freedom.
"Evil Dead" is more dead than evil
Five friends head to a cabin deep in the woods, where they find a sinister book that unleashes a demonic force, which proceeds to pick them off one by one.
Artsy liberals deal with nuclear annihilation and their daughter
There aren't enough accolades to describe Elle Fanning as Ginger in this lovely movie.
Movies you might have missed: “On the Bowery”
"On the Bowery," a unique film from 1956 uses a creative technique to get the viewer behind the scenes of what was then a notorious skid row in America's largest city.
