On the bill for the penultimate evening of the Tribeca Festival was Matthew Broderick and Judd Apatow and it was easy to assume that they’d go down Cable Guy memory lane. The movie, which was plotted as another big Jim Carrey tentpole back in 1996 post Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber and The Mask, saw…

In one of this year’s climaxes at the Tribeca Festival, Steven Spielberg showed off his first major studio theatrical release, Sugarland Express, which celebrates 50 years. “You’re the first audience to ever see Sugarland Express in 50 years,” joked the 3x Oscar-winning filmmaker at the packed BMCC…

Tribeca Film Festival’s ode to its 2x Oscar winning co-founder Robert De Niro –De Niro Con– continued Friday night with a screening of Silver Linings Playbook with that pic’s filmmaker David O. Russell and Ben Stiller sharing their candid experiences working with the Stella Adler trained actor. Or as…

This four-part, so-far-untitled documentary series about the rise and rise of Hollywood's least likely marquee-name director starts out with a tribute from Christopher Walken that will be very hard for the next three instalments to match. In that inimitable… sta-cc-a-to… WAY… of his, the Sleepy Hollow…

There was a time back in the 1990s when one wouldn’t find Robert De Niro doing many interviews. He supposedly didn’t like them, and felt awkward. However, today on the ‘first’ day of Tribeca’s De Niro Con, the actor’s Jackie Brown filmmaker Quentin Tarantino unlocked the method actor at the SVA…

Robert Iler, aka Tony Soprano’s son A.J., said it best Thursday night at Tribeca Festival’s 25th anniversary The Sopranos get-together: “Now my friends are going to shitty high school reunions and I’m going to cool stuff like this.” Tribeca tonight premiered the Alex Gibney-directed HBO documentary W…

Elmore Leonard — cinematically, perhaps the most influential writer of the 20th century whose name never gave rise to an adjective — casts a long shadow over Jeffrey Reiner's Lake George, a satisfying L.A. noir that follows his legacy almost to the letter…

The Brat Pack has been through a lot, but time has only strengthened their offscreen friendships. While discussing Andrew McCarthy’s new Brats documentary at its Tribeca Film Festival premiere on Friday, Jon Cryer had some less-than-fond memories of his Pretty in Pink (1986) co-star. “When we…

"We have to do something," says one of the many shadowy extremists who populate the fringes of Mike Ott's tense drama McVeigh, a condensed account of the events that led Timothy McVeigh, an Iraq war veteran, to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building…

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are to make a rare public appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival later this week. The South Park creators will participate in a conversation after the world premiere of documentary ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!. The event, which takes place on Friday June 7, will be hosted by…

A trailer for upcoming documentary documentary chronicling the life and career of singer/songwriter Linda Perry: Let It Die Here has been revealed. Linda Perry: Let It Die is the feature-length documentary, from Mercury Studios, Utopia Originals, KTF Films and award-winning producer Don Hardy, is an…

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. and Cairo-based production company Ambient Light Films has unveiled the trailer for Lebanese director Mira Shaib's drama Arzé, which was announced as part of the Tribeca Film Festival selection on Wednesday. The Beirut-set drama stars Lebanese actress Diamand Abou Abboud (The Insult, I…