Review: Dear Mandela
Apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, bringing a majority party, the African National Congress (ANC), into power. In those first years of ...
Tag: Documentary
Reviews
Sundance Review: The Gatekeepers
In Israel’s Shin Bet, I find an intelligence agency not so different from the CIA. In Israel’s religious zealots, I find an extremist ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: Sound City
An hour into Sound City, the film takes an unexpected detour, suddenly documenting a jam session between David Grohl and friends instead of ...
Trailers
Trailer: Kink (Red Band)
Kink is the James Franco produced documentary the explores the BDSM website, Kink.com. This trailer proves that the documentary won’t be sex acts, ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: The World According to Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney’s influence on America over the past decade is unparalleled. With each successive year of living with bossy TSA guards, unwarranted surveillance, ...
Sundance Review: Who is Dayani Cristal?
Black Adidas, beige khakis, and a Spanish prayer in pocket. Another immigrant lays dead in the Sonora Desert — the 20 minute drive ...
Features
Geoff’s Top Five Limited Release Films of 2012
In addition to all of the big budget, big theater releases I saw in 2012, a large portion of my time was spent ...
Reviews
Review: Delta Boys
Getting affordable oil comes at a price, especially to local populations. This was probably best explored in Joe Berlinger’s 2009 documentary Crude, which ...
Lady Gaga documentary in the works
A documentary about Lady Gaga is now in the works, which will chronicle her life as well as the creation of her forthcoming ...
Features
Hubert’s 10 Best Documentaries of 2012
If you watch a lot of documentaries, you begin to admire the craft and diligence that goes into a great non-fiction film. There’s ...
Flix for (not so) Short: Street Fight
Yesterday, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced that he was exploring a run for US Senate in 2014. (Many had thought he’d run for ...
Trailers
Trailer: Sound City
Sound City is an upcoming documentary headed by Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame. The documentary centers on the titular music studio ...