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Tribeca Festival · 2015

Tribeca Festival 2015

Midnight

Programme

5 films · 3 reviews

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Bodyslam: The Revenge Of The Banana!

Ronald McFondle, Eddie Van Glam, and other social outcasts made up the Seattle Semi-Pro (SSP) Wrestlers, an off-kilter family of cabaret fighters that spoofed the pros. When a newcomer Paul, The Banana, fell on the wrong end of the joke, he ran to the government to disband the SSP. This drama captures the wrestlers' fight.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ryan Harvie, John Paul Horstmann; Writer: Ryan Harvie, John Paul Horstmann)

World Premiere, Narrative.

Emelie

Review preview for Emelie

It's likely to be most appealing to people just too young to be officially allowed to see it.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A replacement babysitter seems to have sinister intentions towards her young charges.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Thelin; Writer: Richard Raymond, Harry Herbeck; Stars: Sarah Bolger, Susan Pourfar, Ryan Monolopolus, Elizabeth Jayne, Dante Hoagland, Robert Bozek, Randi Langdon, Brian Mysliwy, Daniel James, Sara Kow-Falcone, Christopher Srock, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey, Michael Joseph Dugan, Daniel James)

World Premiere, Narrative.

Hyena

Review preview for Hyena

Bent copper. Check. A liking for the charlie. Check. Shady gangsters operating out of shady strip clubs. Check.

Robert Munro · 1 out of 5
The story of a corrupt cop caught up in the London crime scene.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Gerard Johnson; Writer: Gerard Johnson; Stars: Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, Elisa Lasowski, MyAnna Buring, Richard Dormer, Gordon Brown, Tony Pitts, Orli Shuka, Gjevat Kelmendi, Thomas Craig, Lorenzo Camporese, Shaban Arifi, Alfred Doda, Mem Ferda)

US premiere. Narrative.

Scherzo Diabolico

Armed with a fine-tuned chokehold and penchant for piano sonatas, a wearied accountant breaks his mild-mannered routine when he kidnaps a young woman. What starts as a carefully calculated plan soon crescendos into his worst nightmare.

(Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2015; Director: Adrián García Bogliano; Writer: Adrián García Bogliano; Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Daniela Soto Vell, Jorge Molina, Milena Pezzi, Vita Vargas, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Evan Alducin, Tito Guillén, Pau Alva)

World Premiere, Narrative.

Stung

Review preview for Stung

We are thrown headlong into a remake of Aliens, only with a mansion instead of a space colony and caterers instead of marines. The surprise is that it works.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Parasitic wasps party on down.

(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Benni Diez; Writer: Adam Aresty, Adam Aresty; Stars: Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Florentine Lahme, Daniele Rizzo, David Masterson, Cecilia Pillado, Kathleen Renish, Eve Slatner, Tony de Maeyer)

World Premiere, Narrative.