Movie Review: My Name Is Pauli Murray
Rosa Parks. Thurgood Marshall. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. School integration. Diner sit ins. All of these people and actions are trademarks of the trailblazing Civil Rights …
Documentary
Movie Review: The Lost Leonardo
The Salvator Mundi. I remember the news stories. A painting by the artistic genius himself, Leonardo Da Vinci. Or was it really? The Lost Leonardo …
Movie Review: Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
Concert documentaries have split into two groups now: either they focus on a single performer delivering a show (J. Balvin‘s recent doc), or they’re like …
Movie Review: Summer of Soul
Woodstock. Even the name inspires all sorts of music fans and baby boomers to swoon nostalgically for all the amazing talent on display at what …
Movie Review: The Boy From Medellin
Music documentaries produced by brand managers of the musician have an upper limit on their entertainment value. Bad ones come off condescending, and even the …
Movie Review: My Octopus Teacher
Thank goodness for award hunting streaming services. Netflix has been pushing all their films to as many awards shows as possible, boosting their prestige and …
Movie Review: Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Looks like Chris Smith and Netflix have found a wonderful pairing with each other, bonding over their love for zeitgeist stories of privileged people getting …
Movie Review: Collective
Most documentaries have an air of importance, simply by being attached to a real life issue or cause. In general, these documentaries inherently use storytelling …
Movie Review: Time
Most people think time is just a number. That it measures in minutes, seconds, hours, light years, whatever. But the more you think about it, …
Movie Review: All In: The Fight For Democracy
Everyone and their Will Ferrell encourages you to vote whenever an election comes up. But is voting really important? If you’ve ever asked yourself that …