Tribeca Film Festival 2018: The Seagull

Tribeca Film Festival 2018: The Seagull

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a Tribeca Film Festival 2018 review of The Seagull.

Director: Michael Mayer. With Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, and Annette Bening. An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Tully

Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Tully

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a Tribeca Film Festival 2018 review of Tully.

Directed by Jason Reitman. With Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, and Mark Duplass. The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.

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SFFILM Festival 2018: Leave No Trace

SFFILM Festival 2018: Leave No Trace

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you an SFFILM Festival 2018 review of Leave No Trace.

Directed by Debra Granik. With Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie. A father and his 13 year-old daughter are living in a paradisiacal existence in a vast urban park in Portland Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

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Review 499: Gemini

Review 499: Gemini

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review Gemini.

Directed by Aaron Katz. With Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, and John Cho. A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.

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