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Reviews: April 2008 Archives
Tribeca '08: "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"
By Matt Singer on 04/28/2008
By Matt Singer [For complete coverage of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, check out IFC's Tribeca page.] On February 16, 2007, Sylvester Stallone was busted in Australia with 48 vials of the human growth hormone Jintropin. To some, this was a non-story; after all, Stallone was not "cheating" in the same way a professional athlete might be if he were caught with the same performance-enhancing drugs. Stallone is an actor, and he's not competing against anyone. According to his lawyer, he was using Jintropin under medical supervision. But Stallone is also the man who plays Rocky Balboa and John Rambo... MORE »
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Tribeca '08: "Fermat's Room"
By Matt Singer on 04/24/2008
Filed under: Festivals, ReviewsBy Matt Singer [For complete coverage of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, check out IFC's Tribeca page.] Four Spanish mathematicians convene for an evening of puzzle-solving at the house of a man named Fermat. But almost as soon as they arrive, their mysterious host is called away to attend to his ailing daughter. A PDA rings, giving the group a question they're told they must solve in just one minute. When they don't, the walls of Fermat's room inch towards one another. Now, they must answer the riddles while trying to find an escape before they're all squeezed to death.... MORE »
Tribeca '08: "Man on Wire"
By Matt Singer on 04/18/2008
Filed under: Festivals, ReviewsBy Matt Singer [For complete coverage of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, check out IFC's Tribeca page.] As a boy, Philippe Petit enjoyed climbing things. Many boys do. But Petit never grew out of it, the way many boys do, and when he learned about wire walking, he found his calling in life. When he heard about a pair of towers being built in lower Manhattan — even though they were still years from completion, even though he'd never been to America, even though the very act was sheer suicide — he immediately decided that someday, he would walk on... MORE »
