Review: Gimme Danger
Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch sound like an unlikely pairing. One’s the primal frontman of proto-punk legends The Stooges, the other’s a mellow, ...
Tag: Documentary
NYC: Metrograph has marathon OJ: Made in America screenings, director Ezra Edelman Q&A
O.J.: Made in America is the crowning achievement of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentaries. Director Ezra Edelman’s five-part, seven-and-a-half hour film is an ...
Trailers
Trailer: Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary Rats looks like an intense horror thriller
Rats are the worst. Like, seriously guys, the worst. There’s this vacant building next to my apartment that’s rife with them and the ...
Jackie Chan and Frederick Wiseman will receive honorary Oscars
Action icon Jackie Chan and influential documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (Titticut Follies, High School) will both receive honorary Oscars from the Academy of ...
Reviews
Review: The Lovers And The Despot
It can be kind of exhausting getting a dozen (or more) emails a day about movie X, Y, and Z. Do I want ...
Werner Herzog’s volcano documentary Into the Inferno will hit Netflix October 28th
Netflix is putting out everything these days, from Bill Nye talks shows to Mythbusters build team shows to Christopher Guest mockumentaries about sports ...
Trailers
Watch the season 2 trailer for IFC’s Documentary Now! starring Fred Armisen and Bill Hader
Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers’ Documentary Now! is a loving in-joke of a show for fans of non-fiction film. The first ...
Trailers
Watch the trailer for The Lost Arcade, a documentary on NYC’s Chinatown Fair
As someone who still wears the occasional onion on his belt, I remember arcades quite fondly. They were in steady decline when I ...
Trailers
Watch the trailer for Man vs Snake, which may be this year’s King of Kong
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was highly entertaining (even though the filmmakers fudged a lot of the facts). Much of that ...
Reviews
Review: Eva Hesse
Almost every creative work is inescapably autobiographical. We can’t get outside ourselves, so whatever’s been experienced finds expression in the work, whether consciously ...
Tribeca Capsule Review: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Growing up in San Antonio you witness a lot of things like gang violence, racial and class divides, and the occasional public drunkeness, ...
Reviews
Tribeca Capsule Review: Betting on Zero
Herbalife looks like a pyramid scheme, but legally it’s considered a multi-level-marketing company (i.e., a barely legal pyramid scheme).