Review: Aroused
Aroused is an odd documentary. It’s essentially an advertisement for director Deborah Anderson’s art book (which she makes sure to plug in the ...
Tag: Documentary
Reviews
Tribeca Review: Mistaken for Strangers
If you’re going into Mistaken for Strangers looking for a rockumentary/tour documentary on The National, you’re in for disappointment. The film was directed ...
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Tribeca Review: Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
It seems like we’re well beyond the age of the public intellectual, or even the public author who may show society the way. ...
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Review: Cutie and the Boxer
A friend of mine who’s a poet once told me that she’d never date another writer. If I remember the conversation right, it ...
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Review: Kill Team
The war in Afghanistan is the longest military conflict in which the United States has been involved. The operation is nowhere near as ...
Tribeca Review: Oxyana
A couple of weeks ago, the 1995 patent on the painkiller OxyContin expired. OxyContin is a particularly potent form of the opioid Oxycodone, ...
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Review: Let the Fire Burn
In 1985 there was a tragic stand-off between the extremist Africa-American group MOVE and the city of Philadelphia. At the end, 11 members ...
Help fund the documentary Chuck Norris vs Communism
You may remember last year that we shared a promotional trailer for Chuck Norris vs. Communism, a documentary on how a woman named ...
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Tribeca Review: Bending Steel
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be ...
Trailers
Trailer: Bears
Did you see all of these BEARS? Damn, the hype is un-bear-able. This trailer for Disneynature’s newest wildlife documentary, Bears, is a non-stop rollercoaster ...
Tribeca Review: The Genius of Marian
Intensely personal documentaries sometimes work best when they eschew notions of reportage and simply become confessions or professions of something. The films are ...
Trailer: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
In case some people have forgotten the whole WikiLeaks debacle from a few years ago, Focus World have released the first official trailer ...