Jameson Kowalczyk

Russia isn’t the first place that comes to mind when most people hear the word ‘blockbuster,’ but that might change starting this weekend with the opening of Day Watch, Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov’s sequel to his 2004 Night Watch, a box office phenomenon in his home country that earned international attention from critics, audiences, and Hollywood (20th Century Fox is backing the next Watch film, titled Dusk Watch).

Severance is the sophomore feature film effort from British filmmaker Christopher Smith, who debuted in 2004 with the gory monster on the loose in the London...

Apart form the usual Narrative, Documentary, Premiere and World sections, the Tribeca Film Festival has a Family section, showcasing films in all genres that are suitable for kids. I though this was a pretty cool idea, so I decided to check out one of the films and ended up at a screening of Impy’s Island, a German CGI animation featuring the most popular subject of CGI animations – cute talking animals.

Rise: Blood Hunter is the latest project from writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez (screenwriter for Gothika), and screening as part of the Midnight section of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. The story centers on Sadie Blake (Lucy Lui), a young investigative reporter who has been working on a series of articles about underground goth cults that, at first glance appear to be “‘Dungeons and Dragons’ with nipple rings,” but are in fact, connected to something much more sinister.

Black Sheep is the debut feature from writer/director Johnathan King, who follows in the footsteps of filmmaker Peter Jackson with a gory, laugh out loud splatter comedy about a murderous flock of genetically engineered sheep that calls to mind that calls to mind the classic New Zealand horror comedies Bad Taste...