Elton John: Never Too Late Movie Review: An Endearing Documentary
By writeonmusic |
Elton John has a hard time saying goodbye. Throughout his storied career he has announced his retirement for all manner ...
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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! Blu-ray Review: They Make the Case
By Gordon S. Miller |
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! started as a convention panel, became a film series at the American Cinematheque to celebrate ...
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Movie Review: A Kind of Omniscience
By Shawn Bourdo |
Director Mark Cousins must love a challenge. The new documentary, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2024), attempts to bring a ...
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American Movie 4K UHD Review: Film, Family, and Alcohol Abuse
By Kent Conrad |
In its bare outline, American Movie is a documentary about a striving filmmaker. In the telling, it’s about addiction, family ...
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Daytime Revolution (2024) Movie Review: When Counterculture Met Middle America
By Kit O'Toole |
The date was February 14, 1972, and unsuspecting stay-at-home mothers sat down to watch an episode of the Mike Douglas ...
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Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 Review: A Heavy-Hitting, Hard Rock Performance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Frustrated working with the Deep Purple Mark III line-up, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore began recording with members of the band of ...
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Swan Song (2023) DVD Review: Revelatory All-Access Pass to the Creation of a Ballet
By Steve Geise |
Nope, this isn’t the Mahershala Ali Apple TV+ movie. It’s also not the indie starring Udo Kier in drag. Instead, ...
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Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist Movie Review: An Artistic and Fascinating Journey
By Darcy Staniforth |
Obsession, drive, and demons. All three things can both fuel a person's life or destroy it. Tattooist, artist, and writer ...
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Anselm Blu-ray Review: Wim Wenders Continues His Fascination with the Arts
By Steve Geise |
Director Wim Wenders is the rare creator able to shift between narrative and documentary features as he wishes, excelling in ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Missing from Fire Trail Road
By Gordon S. Miller |
May Ellen Johnson-Davis disappeared from the Tulalip Indian reservation near Seattle on November 25, 2020. Two years later, director Sabrina ...
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Orlando, My Political Biography Blu-ray Review: A Highly Original Celebration of Personal Identity
By Davy |
Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) remains one of the seminal literary works of the twentieth century. One of the first of ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in August 1971. It was intended ...
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Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World Movie Review: Deep Dive into a Historic Concert
By Kit O'Toole |
In September 1969, Toronto experienced their own Woodstock: the Toronto Rock ’N Roll Revival Festival, a landmark event featuring music ...
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Arthur Dong’s LGBTQ Stories Blu-ray Review: Necessary Documents
By Davy |
Although Pride month will be over in just a few days, our endless fight to as LGBTQ individuals will never ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Satisfied
By Steve Geise |
Filled with Renée Elise Goldsberry’s self-recorded archival clips, this new documentary traces her meteoric ride on the Hamilton express at ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Luther: Never Too Much
By Steve Geise |
Luther Vandross built a recording career on love songs featuring his unforgettable voice, but director Dawn Porter takes a deep ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Desire: The Carl Craig Story
By Steve Geise |
Widely regarded as one of the key figures and champions of the Detroit EDM scene, Carl Craig is both a ...
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All That Breathes Blu-ray Review: A Profound, Lyrical Film
By Davy |
I also appreciate cinematic stories about the relationships between humans and wildlife, where our bonds are much stronger than we ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Soldiers of Song
By David Wangberg |
Ryan Smith’s Soldiers of Song starts off as if we’re about to watch a trailer for the documentary that’s going ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Hacking Hate
By Gordon S. Miller |
Simon Klose's Hacking Hate is a compelling documentary that is more chilling than any horror movie as it explores online ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Shelf Life
By Gordon S. Miller |
Documentarian Ian Cheney's Shelf Life is an anthological look at cheese, a food item so ubiquitous that many take it ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Pirópolis
By David Wangberg |
From the film’s opening shot to the final haunting minutes, Nicolás Molina’s Pirópolis grabs your attention, immerses you into the ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: They All Came Out to Montreux
By Steve Geise |
How did a tiny Swiss lakeside town become the site of a legendary music festival? Why is it called the ...
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Against the Storm (Herbert Kline in a Darkened Europe) Blu-ray Review: Capturing Pivotal Moments from History
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, I really love documentaries. They dare to tell the truth about the ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Brats
By David Wangberg |
For years, I thought that films with the “Brat Pack” term attached to them were only written and/or directed by ...
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Hendrie DVD Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Radio Man
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hendrie tells the story of Phil Hendrie, whose call-in radio show spoofed call-in radio shows and revealed his lightning-quick, improv ...
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Resistance – They Fought Back Movie Review: A Captivating Look at the Jewish Uprising
By David Wangberg |
The Jewish resistance that took place during the Holocaust is something that isn’t as heavily discussed or documented in history ...
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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg Movie Review: More than the Stones’ Muse
By Jade Blackmore |
Anita Pallenberg is usually referred to as the Rolling Stones’ muse, or as Keith Richards’ longtime partner. That’s how she’s ...
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Much Ado About Dying Movie Review: Beautifully Uncomfortable
By Darcy Staniforth |
The burden of care-giving for another person at the end of their life is not something everyone will have to ...
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Frida (2024) Movie Review: An Artistic Tribute to Kahlo from Kahlo
By Darcy Staniforth |
Frida Kahlo used herself as the subject of many of her paintings because, as she said, “I am the subject ...
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Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend Blu-ray Review: I’m Honestly at a Loss After Watching This
By Darcy Staniforth |
Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend looks at the legend of Bigfoot using historical accounts, testimony, and information from Bigfoot experts and ...
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Jeanne Moreau, Filmmaker Blu-ray Review: Girl Power
By Steve Geise |
Any casual fan of French cinema recognizes the name of esteemed actress Jeanne Moreau. Of far less common knowledge is ...
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The Hobby Movie Review: What Was Once About Collecting Is Now About Investing
By Rons Reviews |
The documentary The Hobby bills itself as “a character-driven, feel-good deep dive into the high-stakes, eccentric world of card collecting.” ...
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Wolfman’s Got Nards Blu-ray Review: The Monster Squad Squad Speaks
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Monster Squad and Wolfman's Got Nards, the 30th anniversary documentary about the film and its fans, are available together ...
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...
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Godard Cinema Blu-ray Review: Interesting and Involving
By Davy |
When legendary, unconventional, and challenging filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard passed away in 2022, it left quite a shock to everyone, not ...
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American Dharma Movie Review: Duty, Fate, and Destiny
By Greg Hammond |
American Dharma is a documentary film in which director Errol Morris interviews Steve Bannon, who, among many other roles, was ...
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Why We Fight (2020) Blu-ray Review: Three Athletes Tell Us Why They Do
By Joe Garcia III |
Why We Fight is a look at three combat sports athletes and why they are so passionate about the Martial ...
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A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Blu-ray Review: Bringing Balance and Answers After 45 Years
By Joe Garcia III |
Making its sole television appearance on November 17, 1978, the Star Wars Holiday Special is an event that remains forever ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2023 – You Can Burn The Midnight Oil With Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2022, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021 I returned ...
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Anti-Nowhere League: We Are the League DVD Review: Rude and Crude…They Are the League
By Joe Garcia III |
Anti-Nowhere League did this and they did that. Animal did it with a shiny axe. So what? Winston shoved a ...
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Standard Operating Procedure Movie Review: We Just Did What We Were Told
By Greg Hammond |
Errol Morris’ 2008 documentary Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) concerns itself with the photos uncovered at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 ...
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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg DVD Review: See One of the Best Minds of His Generation
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally released in 1993, Jerry Aronson documents The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, the famed Beat Generation poet who ...
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Mondo New York Blu-ray Review: A Time Capsule Full of Uninhibited Freedom and Expression
By Davy |
Performance art, for many, is something that most people will take with a grain of salt, or twenty. However, it ...
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The Sorrow and the Pity Blu-ray Review: A Multi-perspective Essay on the German Occupation of France
By Jack Cormack |
It’s 259 minutes long, it’s a bunch of interviews with folks who resisted (and others who collaborated with) the German ...
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Immediate Family (2023) Movie Review: A Must-watch for Music Lovers
By Darcy Staniforth |
Denny Tedesco introduced the world to the Wrecking Crew with the release of his film of the same name. Now Tedesco ...
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The Exiles (1961) Blu-ray Review: This Film Is a Revelation
By Davy |
Fish-out-of-water stories are pretty common and now cliched; they feature characters who usually leave their home, especially for better lives ...
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer Movie Review: The Master Becomes the Subject
By Steve Geise |
After a lifetime of training his lens on other fictional and real subjects, Werner Herzog is now the subject of ...
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Moonage Daydream Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Phantasmagoric Journey Through the Art and Mind of David Bowie
By Gordon S. Miller |
Taking its title from a David Bowie song of the same name originally recorded by his band Arnold Corns then ...
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The Fog of War Blu-ray Review: Robert McNamara Tells All
By David Wangberg |
Although I’ve never held a role in politics, nor do I intend to, there’s no doubt that they come with ...
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