When I looked at the lineup for last month’s Tribeca Film Festival, one movie title really caught my eye: Death Boom. And once I discovered it was not just another horror film but actually a documentary predicting an impending crisis for Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), of which I am…

FX’s comedy series Adults let Tribeca Film Festival goers in on a secret: not only does a standalone prequel episode exist, but the show’s panel attendees were able to screen it. The episode titled “Marathon Day,” which focuses on Paul Baker’s (Jack Innanen) origin story, will be available to…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris Hilton is getting behind college hazing documentary 4000 Days, which launches at Tribeca today. Above is a first trailer. The film chronicles “the relentless fight of three families who channeled their personal tragedies into a movement for change. After losing their sons to…

Tribeca Film Festival has responded after an offensive Palestine joke made by The Wedding Entertainer star Elon Gold at the movie’s Thursday premiere. In a statement, a festival spokesperson condemned the “offensive and unacceptable” joke Gold made to a red carpet influencer about being “raped…

More than 20 years after releasing Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna is taking over New York City to celebrate the sequel. During Friday’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the visualizer for her Confessions II album, debuting July 3, the 7x Grammy winner explained that the short is “really…

Like it did for many people, the pandemic changed things for writer/director Drake Doremus, whose last film, 2019’s Endings, Beginnings, now seems like a prophetic title for the filmmaker, a true romantic, who has since ended one relationship and then met a woman to begin another as his wife. That…

Tammie Rosen, who ran communications for Tribeca Enterprises and the Sundance Institute and was known widely in the film and entertainment community, died early Wednesday at 49. She had been ill with cancer in recent months. Among filmmakers, fest and industry execs, talent and members of…

Marnie Block realized that working through her own trauma could potentially help others in need. A victim of sexual assault herself, the Dutch actor turned writer-director used her experience as a tool for inspiration in her debut short film Beyond Silence. The film follows Eva (Henrianne Jansen), a…

Home might not always be where the heart is, especially when you were never supposed to be there in the first place. In Jahmil Eady's folklore horror short Haint, imminent threats to Southern Black culture are on the rise when a series of gentrifiers in their small community mysteriously begin to…

Growing up in a multiracial family in New York City, Rosario Dawson had a unique first-hand perspective on how cannabis is used as a tool for racism. As an executive producer and the narrator of Kiss My Grass, a documentary short that premiered last week at Tribeca Film Festival, exploring the…

Six-time Oscar nominated writer/director/producer Jim Sheridan has tackled a variety of films in his storied career, which includes My Left Foot, The Boxer, In The Name Of The Father, In America, The Field, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ and numerous others…

It's not exactly the rap battle anyone ever likely envisioned, but May 22 will see Sean "Diddy" Combs and Kid Cudi going head-to-head as the Happy Gilmore 2 star gives testimony in the Bad Boy Records founder's sex-trafficking trial. Kid Cudi (a.k.a. Scott Mescudi) will take the stand in Judge…