Jon Stewart producing film on jailed former guest Bahari
Back in 2009, the Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari was arrested during the Iranian election protests. He was imprisoned for 118 days, with all ...
Tag: Documentary
Trailers
Trailer for Tabloid covers crazy 1977 Mormon sex scandal
No, not that Mormon sex scandal. Not that one either. Or that one. Or that. Okay, so there have been quite a few ...
Trailers
Trailer: Buck
Do you have anyone in your life who loves horses? If you do, you might want to remember this trailer. Buck is a ...
Werner Herzog talks to Colbert about filmmaking
The Colbert ReportTags: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I absolutely adored Cave of Forgotten Dreams. I think it’s one ...
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Trailer: Beats, Rhymes & Life
Hip hop heads, stand up. One of the greatest and most influential of the 80’s hip hop movement, A Tribe Called Quest, have ...
Review: My Perestroika
Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika comes to us in the 20th anniversary year of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at the time, a ...
Reviews
Review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Documentaries can be surprisingly easy to pull off. Basically any filmmaker with half a brain can decide to make a movie about XYZ ...
Mini-Documentary: A Cult Influence
In light of today’s installment of The Cult Club, we feel it’s a good time to ask: what, exactly, classifies a film as ...
Trailers
Trailer: Derby Baby
I’ve been a huge fan of roller derby ever since my brother took me and my mom to our first bout back in ...
Flix for Short: Katy & I
Flix for Short is Flixist’s way of showing off awesome short films we find around the web. Do you have a favorite short ...
Tribeca ’11 Review: Beats, Rhymes & Life
This may be the most partial review I have ever wrote. Not because some suit threw money at me or I have personal ...
Trailers
Trailer: Page One
If I’d known this was coming out in June, I’d have written it up for our big summer movie preview. If I had ...