We usually don’t watch book trailers but this one is kind of like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and also stars Riverhead publisher Geoff Kloske! It also has the actor Timothy Hutton and the author Julie Klam, who has written a book about a dog called Love at First Bark. We didn’t know that until the end of the trailer though. Read More
Overhwlemed by choices? Here are the Observer’s top nine picks at Tribeca. Click on the slideshow to see what not to miss! And check back during the week for dispatches, updates and everything else from the festival.
Monday: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Oh, what can we say? It’s perfect. Perfect! The Peanuts gang shows us every possible way to screw up the holiday: Snoopy decorates his dog house like it’s Atlantic City; Sally asks Santa to send cash money; Charlie Brown, that blockhead, mopes, sulks, overanalyzes, expects too much, and then settles Read More
Monday: Beautiful Girls
While it’s easy to dismiss the late Ted Demme’s 1996 ensemble dramedy without a second thought, Beautiful Girls is a pretty charming and affable movie… as long as you can get past the "Sweet Caroline" sing-a-long. Matt Dillon, who will never be accused of being a great actor despite his ridiculous Read More
Like an action epic that doesn’t move, or a musical that doesn’t sing, there is something woefully disappointing at the movies about a thriller that doesn’t thrill. A twisted little spine-tingler called Taking Lives almost achieves the dark and terrifying ambiance of Seven and Copycat to which it aspires, except for one basic hurdle. A Read More
