Movie Review: You Had to Be There
One of the great laments of the last 15 years of movies is the streamification of the studio comedy. The joy of laughter, and if …
Documentary
Movie Review: The Last First: Winter K2
The Last First: Winter K2 might as well be science fiction to me. Most documentaries of this sort are built to celebrate pushing the boundaries …
Movie Review: The History of Concrete
One of my core beliefs is that at any time, any one is capable of surprising you. Mostly in a positive way, underlying a depth …
Movie Review: Mighty Mary
Even rarer than a 0 star review is a negative review of a documentary for me. Because, at some level, all documentaries advocate for something, …
Movie Review: Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
If you grew up in the 1990s and cared about British music in any capacity, there was no escaping Oasis. For me, they were the …
Movie Review: Teenage Wasteland
And so completes Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s “high school documenatry as a microcosm of America” trilogy. I’m still workshopping the name. But after clearly …
Movie Review: Never Stop Chasing
When was the last time a documentary you saw was also in the running for best action movie of the year? This subgenre of documentaries …
Movie Review: Cookie Queens
Thin Mints are still at the top, but Samoas are charging, and charging hard. That’s my favorite girl scout cookie, what’s yours? Cookie Queens covers …
Movie Review: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour
I am not Billie Eilish’s target demo for music. I like a lot of what she does, but I tend to admire it from afar …
Movie Review: Lorne
There’s no such thing as a documentary filmmaking superstar. They never get the reverential treatment in the populous like Christopher Nolan or Steven Spielberg do, …