Squid Game Season 3 Review: … Have Violent Ends

Season 3 of the Squid Game is not the subject of this overview. Squid Game is one of the most startlingly cynical pieces of large common press ever produced. The Netflix life theatre, when it’s at its best ( which is typically the case ), has the voice of Hwang Dong-hyuk, who yells,” And another thing that fucks sucks”! into a bullhorn over ]…]

On Den of Geek, the initial evaluation of Squid Game Season 3:… Have Violent Stops appeared.

The 2025 Tribeca Festival might have been the busiest and most authority packed it has been in the past 10 years. The Tribeca Festival has been a potent melting pot of drama, music, activities, and video games as it got closer to its quarter-decade of life. While the 2025 version had all these avenues of pleasure available for the viewing government, its video offerings were jam-packed with great premieres and top level skill.

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Some of our favorite actors and skill met us in our Manhattan workshop to talk about their films, shows, and public favorite things about the market. Den of Geek was fortunate to have them. You can find videos and movies of all these great discussions on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or wherever you find your favorite internet videos of the day. However, we’re also pleased to share with you some of our friends ‘ stopovers at the Den of Geek Studio’s selection of shows below. &nbsp,

Much Live the Express

Customers: Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, David Wain, Todd Holoubek, Ken Marino, Michael Patrick Jann, Michael Ian Black, and producer Matthew Perniciaro

Members of The State‘s funny band are perhaps more well-known these days for tasks like Reno 911!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Moist Hot American Summer, and many, many, many other adored funny names. But they all got their start creating and starring in the MTV mid-’90s sketch comedy show, The State.

This writer is certainly familiar with those things, and the same holds true for Matt Perniciaro, the director of the new documentary series about the show. ” Everyone knows members of this group, but they don’t necessarily know where it all started”, he says. Their style of comedy also developed from a point where the majority of comedy clubs don’t jump-start their careers. David Wain explains,” We came up as a sketch group made up of film students at NYU. It wasn’t an improv group. We were as much about making film shorts, as we were about creating sketches”.

Although their style is now well-known and almost universal, it wasn’t when they first started out. It was almost as if they were the punk rock kids of comedy. We believed we were very cool. We started out of the gate with this anti-establishment mentality”, Kerri Kenny-Silver says. ” I believe it’s probably from high school, feeling like you don’t necessarily fit in here, and then you find this band of weirdos.” Fellow cast member Todd Holoubeck follows up,” Nobody asked for The Sex Pistols but they got The Sex Pistols. They received The State, but no one ever asked for it.

Whether you’re a massive fan of The State or just someone who recognizes some of the most well known faces in comedy, you’re doing yourself a disservice by not checking out Long Live The State once you can.

Rosemead

Guests: Eric Lin and Lucy Liu

Modern day perceptions of mental health care are much kinder and more open-minded than they once were. Still, the general public is plagued by too many stigmas. Based on real events, this directorial debut of cinematographer Eric Lin focuses on the lives of Irene ( Lucy Liu ), and her son Joe ( Lawrence Shou ), a diagnosed schizophrenic who battles with his condition since the passing of his father. Irene fights to take care of Joe as his mental state spirals out of control while hiding her own terminal cancer diagnosis from many, including Joe. &nbsp,

Although Rosemead has universal themes, Lucy Liu claims that the movie addresses some of the stigmas that still affect the Chinese community. ” It is a stigma that is very current&#8230, a lot of times people say there is just a lot of pressure and stress from school, it’s going to be fine. Simply push through it, Liu advises. ” And I think that is what this movie is trying to bring to light. The notion that it’s something we sweep under the rug and find embarrassing, and that we try to make a face that’s different from reality.

Portraying schizophrenia in a realistic way was also on the forefront of everyone’s minds when making this film. We conducted a lot of research on people’s experiences with schizophrenia, director Eric Lin said, and I think one of the things about YouTube is that many people take their psychotic episodes and post them online to help others through it.

Rosemead is prepped to both impress audiences with its realistic depictions of life and its overarching themes of both the light and the dark.

Seasoned

Guest list: Ewen Wright, Kathryn Wright, Gideon Grody-Patankin, and Mandy Patinkin.

It would be safe to say that Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody are two actors you never thought would become social media stars. However, Mandy and Kathry n’s social media profile became a thing of beauty and now has resulted in Seasoned, a new TV show that had its pilot play at the 2025 Tribeca Festival thanks to their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin ( and Covid in a strange” Thanks, Covid” moment ).

Seasoned is not merely the Mandy and Kathryn TikTok show put into a half-hour format. And thankfully, it wasn’t what many people pitched the family to first. ” We were getting approached a lot for reality television shows and we had no interest in that”, explains Gideon Grody-Patankin. Although this is a scripted show and not a reality, director Ewen Wright describes it as being very much Mandy and Kathryn. ” The script is in their bones, but they’re dancing on top of it with the way they’d like to say something or add a line there”, he says. &nbsp,

Adding on to what is already there seems to be part of Mandy Patinkin’s work ethic, too. While there is always pressure to get things in on time, he likes to say that his goal is to get as many options into the air as possible.” My attitude is give them every chance I can before we leave that angle,” he says. The clock is ticking, the sand’s running through the hourglass, we&#8217, ve got to move on”.

Once Seasoned hits that airwaves, even though it is not exactly in the same realm, it will make a perfect replacement for those who want more Curb Your Enthusiasm. &nbsp,

Paradise Records

Guests: Logic and T Man the Wizard

Paradise Records is not a biopic, but it is in many ways based on the life of its writer, director, producer, and star Logic. Some may wonder why, on his first film ever, Logic would put the weight of all those jobs on his shoulders. The performer has always known what he can do because he’s faced obstacles in the past and has been told” NO” a lot. ” And I get it. I’m like, “hey man, I rap, but I got this idea for a movie and I wrote the script, I wanted to direct it, I wanted to be a star in it, and I wanted full creative control.” You’d be like,’ fuck you”.

And Logic won’t just do this once, either. Movies are just as important to him as music. He also said,” As long as I’m blessed to keep making movies, I’m going to keep taking people that you might not normally see or may have never seen in a film and shining light on them.” He also said he will continue to give roles to people you might not expect to see cross over into acting.

One of those people is his best friend, Tramayne Hudson, a. k. a T Man the Wizard. T Man knew he had a special talent none of these other actors had,” I had a cheat code because Bob is my best friend,” despite Sir Robert Benson Hall II, who he gave his name to on Paradise Records. So he could talk to me a little differently than he could talk to everybody else on the set”.

Fior Di Latte

Guests: Tim Heidecker, Marta Pozzan, and Charlotte Ercoli

Very strong sense memory is possible. We’ve all had those moments where a single scent ( good or bad ) unlocks a memory or state of being. However, in the new comedy written and directed by Charlotte Ercoli, Fior Di Latte, a single scent has taken over his life for Max ( Tim Heidecker ).

” If you point to any corner of this movie it’s either something that I’ve experienced or something that I’m interested in”, Ercoli says. Even though the lives of the movie’s characters may be a little remote, they still evoke memories of themselves. Lead Marta Pozzan puts it best by saying,” I actually feel like Francesca’s a younger version of me. It was lovely to play her, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever be that girl again.

For as important as it is to have people like Marta and Tim carry your film, it also is a great honor to have the great Kevin Kline take part in the process as well, a joy that isn’t lost on sometime likeTim Heidecker,” Kevin Kline was one of my heroes growing up, one of the greats. It was a dream come true to work with him.”

The Sixth Borough

Guests: Andrew Theodorakis, Julian Petty, and Jason Pollard

Fact: Hip-Hop was born in the South Bronx. It would be difficult to find anyone who would disagree, and if they do, they are completely incorrect. And while the art form grew and evolved in other areas of the world, there is one spot of the globe that doesn’t get credit for birthing some of the most important artists, Long Island. &nbsp,

Producer Julian Petty puts the blight of Long Island’s recognition pretty succinctly,” One of the most famous songs,’ The Bridge is Over,’ is KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions talking about the Bronx, and this is where Hip-Hop originated and they were dissing MC Shan in Queens. So that is how you define who you are from and what your place of significance is in hip-hop. And, Long Island just got ignored and left behind”.

The Sixth Borough documents the history of some of the most significant rap acts that were established in Long Island through the vision of director Jason Pollard. So many people will know the names Public Enemy, De La Soul, EPMD, Eric B. and Rakim. However, too many people fail to realize that all of the people in different Long Island towns were raised and established their careers in their own neighborhoods. As Jason puts it,” Rakim is the godfather of lyrical dexterity…without Rakim you don’t have the artists that you have now, expanding the art form the way they are. Therefore, he deserves every prop we can give.

Oh, Hi!

Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, and Sophie Brooks as guests

Relationships can be hard. That shouldn’t be a shocking statement to anyone. Yet, we still live in a world where playing weird relationship games/being woefully non-committal is a thing. And when Isaac ( Logan Lerman ) makes the most of his relationship with Iris ( Molly Gordon ) while he is in a very compromising position, things don’t go according to plan.

From a script co-written between Gordon and director Sophie Brooks, Oh, Hi! takes a holistic view of relationships. While the situations are heightened, everything starts from a real place for its creators,” The true jumping off point for this was that Sophie and I had relationships in our 20s that ended and we weren’t able to have a conversation that we wanted to have with them”, explains Gordon. Sophie Brooks further expands that by describing how that develops into what we see on screen,” There was undoubtedly an element of wish fulfillment: In our darkest moments what would we do to try to keep someone’s attention”?

It also may be hard to find the right tone for telling a story like this. Do you prefer the outrageous comedy? Or do we make this a horror film? Sometimes these decisions are made as part of the filming and editing process, rather than just the script. As Logan Lerman puts it,” There’s so many movies you could make out of the stuff we shot. essentially went in a lot of directions with it.

No matter what you personally take away from Oh, Hi! No character in this one holds back, so you’re in for a treat. Just take Molly’s word for it,” It was so fun to get to play a character that would say some of the things that I would actually say because I have a very dirty, wild humor”.

Man discovers tape

Guests: Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman

Man discovers tape isn’t necessarily a found footage film but rather a faux documentary about a man who notices some very strange things around his town, all compounded by a mysterious tape he finds in his basement.

Although it is essentially a mockumentary, the majority of people would think of it as a comedy when you use the term. Co-director Peter Hall explains how he and Paul found their footing for this film’s presentation,” The way we wrote this movie was we wrote essentially the events that happen. Then we had to reframe it so that it appeared to be documentary makers who had discovered the footage. How would they go about making a documentary about it? This version of it would be based on the footage.

The film also has some very familiar names attached to it as producers such as C. Robert and Jessica Cargill as well as Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead. ” Justin and Aaron immediately flie from Daredevil: Born Again” to the set. It was crazy that they left Daredevil, came straight to us and they were doing things like carrying gear and ripping gaffer tape up” .&nbsp,

However, Justin and Aaron did make suggestions; they weren’t there just to tear down a set, according to Peter,” They really wanted us to lean into the weirdness of the film, to keep things enigmatic,” they continued. Anytime we thought we had to over explain or pander to the audience, they were like,’ no guys.’” Paul then elaborates on how crucial it is to have excellent collaborators, saying,” It was incredible working with producers who just told you to make it weirder and answer less.”

When Man discovers tape finds its way onto your screens, you’ll have to tell Peter and Paul if they answered too much, or they followed Benson and Moorhead’s advice to a T.

The first post on Den of Geek was Tribeca Festival 2025 Round-Up: Everything We Saw.