Documentary
SXSW Film Review – On Her Shoulders
On Her Shoulders has an important figure and issue to discuss but fails completely to get that across. Nadia Murad is a twenty-three year old Yazidi from Iraq whose village was taken over by ISIS, resulting in most of the men being killed including those…
READ MORESXSW Film Review – Operation Odessa
The story behind Operation Odessa (2018) is so outlandish that it could only be told in documentary form. If this were made into a narrative film I wonder if people would buy it. But the remarkable thing is: the events that take place did in…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Final Year
A look at the Obama foreign policy group’s final year where we are given glimpses of what the stress and details of their work entails, The Final Year doesn’t truly get into the nitty-gritty ideas or let us know the subjects in detail. The top…
READ MORESIFF Film Review – City of Ghosts
Raqqa, a city in Syria, has been overtaken by ISIS and a select few are doing what they can to find out the truth about what is happening in their home town. This is to be applauded, yet City of Ghosts is strong on information…
READ MORESIFF Double Feature – The Fabulous Allan Carr and Entanglement
The Fabulous Allan Carr: I came to this documentary not knowing anything about it’s subject, but since director Jeffrey Schwarz made one of my favorite movies of all time, I am Divine, it was pretty much a given I was going to watch it. Schwarz…
READ MORESIFF Double Feature – The Farthest and The Landing
The Farthest: I like space stuff: documentaries, space operas, games, whatever. I’m not entirely sure about the ethics of spending tons of money while people go hungry, but I am just so fascinated by the possibilities of our universe. Which makes Emer Reynolds’ new documentary,…
READ MOREFilm Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
Over the last few decades David Lynch has firmly established himself as America’s premier surrealist filmmaker. His movies are the embodiment of visualized dreams. From his debut feature Eraserhead to his successful stint in television with Twin Peaks and on to his now self-proclaimed final…
READ MORESXSW Double Feature – Unrest and Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
Unrest: Directed by Jennifer Brea, Unrest details her struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME). At the age of 28, while working on her PhD at Harvard, she was struck by a mysterious illness after a experiencing a particularly high…
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