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Tribeca Film Festival: "Zero Motivation"

2.5
Submitted by Zack Mandell - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 16:18

My first film at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival was the Talya Lavie directed film "Zero Motivation." The film was a little challenging for me as it is in Hebrew with subtitles, but like any film with subtitles, you just need to adjust. So let’s talk a little bit about this new film.

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Superhero Movie Month: "Surrogates" Review

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Submitted by Zack Mandell - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 16:01

In Honor of Superhero Month - Win Captain America's Shield Plus The Winter Soldier on Blu-ray Before It's Released! Enter Here!!

Rating: PG-13
Length: 89 minutes
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Strange Yet Stellar: 5 Actors Who Should Be Cast as Marvel's Dr. Strange

April 22nd, 2014

With his mysterious charm and detached demeanor, Dr. Strange keeps comic lovers riveted to the pages that follow him. Marvel fans enthusiastically devour the "Captain America" films, and iconic characters like Spiderman, Wolverine and Thor all ...

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Tribeca Film Festival: "Beneath the Harvest Sky" Review

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Submitted by Zack Mandell - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 13:55

Continuing my coverage of the 2014 Tribeca Film festival, I stumbled across a cool film called "Beneath The Harvest Sky."  The film was directed and written by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly. It revolves around two young friends Casper (Emory Cohen) and Dominic (Callan McAuliffe). 

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Tribeca Film Festival: "Every Secret Thing" Review

3.5
Submitted by Nick Leyland - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 13:13

Last year I had the pleasure of talking with director Amy Berg about her insightful documentary West of Memphis which revolved around the West Memphis Three and the people that where convinced to lie which sent the three boys to prison murder. Amy has done other great documentaries including the 2006 film Deliver Us from Evil, but at Tribeca this year she has directed a new narrative film titled Every Secret Thing.

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Tribeca Film Festival: "5 to 7" Review

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Submitted by Nick Leyland - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 13:07

As I awaited my next film in the Bowtie Cinemas in Chelsea on 23rd and 8th at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, I overheard several critics talking about how much they did not like this film.

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Tribeca Film Festival: "Life Partners" Review

3.5
Submitted by Jeff Festa - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 12:50

Life Partners
Directed By: Susanna Fogel

Life Partners is a fun, witty, and grounded comedy about two friends dealing with the ups and downs of a codependent friendship.

Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs play two best friends who spend the majority of their adult life inseparable from one another. Leighton Meester stars as Sasha, a young single lesbian struggling to find herself and get motivated in her music career. Paige (Jacobs) plays Sasha’s best friend, who has a successful law career and a relatively grounded outlook on life.

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"Fantastic Four" reboot to focus on origin

April 22nd, 2014

The 'Fantastic Four' reboot will be treated as the ''origin'' of the story.

Producer Simon Kinberg says the film which is set to star Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm aka The Thing, Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as the ...

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Locke was filmed 'beginning to end' on every take

April 22nd, 2014

Tom Hardy's 'Locke' was filmed in one take.

The 36-year-old actor stars as construction foreman Ivan Locke in the 2013 crime drama and director Steven Knight confessed they shot the complete film on every take and ...

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Tribeca Film Festival: "App" Review

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Submitted by Nick Leyland - Movie Room Reviews
on 2014-04-22 10:46

The first short I saw this year at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival was the 21-minute, highly anticipated, Alexander Berman directed film "App." I didn’t really know what to expect of the film, but let's just say I wasn't all too pleased.

"App" begins with a shy engineer named Paul Marks who is in desperate need of getting financial support for his new software. He needs to sell his app to an investor by showing how well it works in a real life situation. I will refrain from saying much more because I do not want to give the film away for anyone wanting to see it.

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