Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Biographical Documentary Frida Reminds Us of the Complex Woman Behind the Icon

Poor Frida Kahlo. Much like that other Latin American revolutionary icon, Ernesto Che Guevara, she never imagined that—to a paraphrase Puerto Rico rock group Fiel a La vega’s song “Canciones en la […]

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Game, Games & Tech, Review

Review: Howl Is a Tight Turn-Based Strategy With a Melancholy Atmosphere

2023 was packed full of great video games, so it makes sense if you missed a few. I know I did–I’m still playing catch-up. That means I missed some great […]

Antal Bokor /
Feature, Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho Bravely Preserves a Piece of Moviegoing History in Pictures of Ghosts

The city of Santurce used to be, when I was growing up in the 1970s and early ’80s, the moviegoing mecca for those who called the San Juan Metropolitan Area […]

Alejandro Riera /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: In Imagining the Indian, Filmmakers Ask Americans to Challenge Tradition, Respect their Native Neighbors

Many times when critics review an issue-oriented documentary, the writer will focus more on the issue and less on the filmmaking, and judge the film on how well the filmmaker […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Films Explore Issues of the Environment, Community, Family and Politics

In order to qualify for the Academy Awards for short films (in the live action, animation or documentary categories), a film must meet two main criteria: one, it must play […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Rock ‘n Roll Dreams Come True at Joyful, if Self-Indulgent, Rock Camp

Rock Camp

There’s nothing particularly exceptional about the filmmaking on display in Rock Camp, a new film about the long-running Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp that allows aspiring musicians, die-hard fans or anyone […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Some Kind of Heaven Peeks Behind the Glossy Façade of the Country’s Biggest Retirement Community

Some Kind of Heaven

On a recent episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” the show that focuses on one timely news story each morning, reporters descended on The Villages, the massive, […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Bibliophiles Will Get Lost In the Nostalgia, Promise of The Booksellers

Booksellers

As author Fran Lebowitz reminds us in the terrific new documentary The Booksellers, there was a time not so long ago when, if you had an hour to kill in […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Slay the Dragon Channels the Political Drama, Intrigue Around Gerrymandering

Slay the Dragon

Quite often, documentaries built around political themes have a long list of grievances but not a lot when it comes to solutions to the multitude problems being presented. The compelling […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Oscar Nominated Short Documentaries Chronicle Life’s Hardest, Most Meaningful Moments

St Louis Superman

If you plan to see the Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts Program, now playing at the Music Box Theatre, keep in mind that all five films are presented as a single […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: We Believe in Dinosaurs Details the Fight Over Creationist “Ark Park” in Kentucky

We Believe in Dinosaurs

We Believe in Dinosaurs is the title of the handsomely made documentary feature directed by Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross, but it’s also a statement repeated by several of […]

Matthew Nerber /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Citizen K Traces One Man’s Rise and Fall in Putin’s Russia

Citizen K

Perhaps one of his more complicated and layered profile documentaries, the latest from filmmaker Alex Gibney (an Oscar winner for Tales to the Dark Side), Citizen K explores the bizarre […]

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