Documentaries
Life in a Day – A Movie in a Sentence
(image via AceShowbiz.com) Remember when the internet asked people to turn on their video cameras and record the events of a single day of their lives? Well, 80,000 people really did ...
Burning Man – To Be or Not to Be a Terrorist
(image via Woodland Trust) 1995 offered numerous options for the American kid who preferred outrage over sloth. There were corporate scumbags in America to loathe. There were faceless Communist tyrants ...
Gasland – Drink Bottled Water or Take Your Chances with “Some Bizarre Scientific Experiments”
There’s plenty to be said for Gasland, the Oscar-nominated, 2010 documentary from Josh Fox, who grew up and currently lives on the Marcellus Shale, “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” ...
Beats, Rhymes, and Life – An Iceberg Ahead
Thanks to True Hollywood Story and Behind the Music, watching music-centered biopics and documentaries is often akin to watching Titanic in that you are relegated to waiting for the boat to crash into an iceberg ...
Man on Wire – Between Benevolence & Tragedy
There is something compelling about Man on Wire, the 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, that would have not been as such had it been released closer to the time ...
The Last Word – All Aboard the Ship of Fools!
Horrific events force us to channel the resulting anger into a visible, tangible object, one that visibly articulates our rage and anger by its existence, at times, regardless of whether ...
No Impact Man – Contradictions, Class Struggles and the Paradox of “Going Green”
Admittedly, when No Impact Man: The Documentary first popped up on Netflix, my first instinct was to watch it with the sole purpose of tearing it apart. Why? I’m not ...
Exit Through the Gift Shop – Rooting for Chaos
A writer for a movie site should probably relish watching the Academy Award nominations and prepare for the witty banter that comes from surprise winners and lovable losers who just ...
Restrepo – A Brother’s Life and an “Other’s” Life
“We’re not ready for this … This is the middle of nowhere … This is a shithole … I felt like we were fish in a barrel … What are ...
Pressure Cooker — If You Can’t Stand the Heat …
In 1994’s Hoop Dreams, we followed Arthur Agee and William Gates as they struggled to break free of their impoverished communities and broken pasts, seeking the opportunity to become professional ...
