Panos Cosmatos‘s first film Beyond the Black Rainbow, which premiered at last week’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York, is like nothing you’ve ever seen. Or, it’s reminiscent of many things you have seen. Like a faded memory, an amalgamation of every sci-fi/horror between 1970 – 1985, Black Rainbow is an exercise in aesthetic and genre. Set in a futuristic 1983, the film stars Michael Rogers as the leader of a secret laboratory, running tests on a telepathic child in an effort to – wait. No. Watching the events unfold in Black Rainbow is half the fun, the other half being entirely unsettled by the creepy visual style and piercing audio track. It’s engrossing. I sat down with Cosmatos to talk about bringing Beyond the Black Rainbow, the inspiration for moody throwback and creating a world that’s both familiar and completely unique.

With the ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival under way in New York, Robert Levin chimes in with some reviews. First: Robert Duvall and Bill Murray in ‘Get Low.’

‘The Exploding Girl,’ a small drama now in limited release, represents an admirable cinematic pursuit: It’s a movie predicated on finding meaning in silence and what’s left unsaid.

Michelle Monaghan talks to us about starring as the tough, hardened Diane in James Mottern’s indie drama, in what she calls the “role of a lifetime.”

This year’s Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film is an eloquent, richly shot piece of work, opening in limited release on May 29.

Our own Robert Levin pairs up with the lovely Katey Rich from Cinema Blend to bring us the first of two video updates from the streets of New York. Find out what is buzzing out at Tribeca right here…

The trailer for Dan Fogler’s first film Hysterical Psycho is admittedly wild and crazy and all sorts of seizure inducing psychosis, but it also appears to be a lot of fun.

The weekend is here. That means it’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy the Best of the Rejects.

The Tribeca Awards were given out on May 1 at the Target Tribeca Filmmakers Lounge. The awards are all juried and recognize excellence in a variety of categories. It couldn’t have been an easy task to pick the best out of so many films.

The weekend is here. That means it’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy the Best of the Rejects.

Strangers, Outlanders, Robots discovering magnets and even some silliness with Batman fighting Sub-Zero. News happened today and we intend to be lazy in our coverage. That is why we bring you the Daily Grind.

Today we got some cool news from the Tribeca Press office that the festival, which was founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, will close with The Wachowski’s tripped out, CGI-infused cartoon adaptation Speed Racer.