Tag: documentary
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Slamdance 2026: THE LAST LIGHT IN A DYING STRIP MALL: CLOVERS AND THE AMERICAN WAGER
Clovers is a bruised, empathetic portrait of a North Carolina strip‑mall casino community wrestling with faith, addiction, and the fading promise of the American Dream. Jennifer Paschal and JD Cranford give the film its emotional pulse, turning everyday survival into a kind of spiritual ritual.
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The Perfect Neighbor: A Harrowing Portrait of American Law and Loneliness
Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor is a powerful documentary built entirely from police footage, chronicling the fatal shooting of Ajike Owens and exposing the racialized misuse of Stand Your Ground laws. It’s a rigorous, restrained portrait of loneliness, law, and neighborhood conflict
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Bono: Stories of Surrender- The Gospel According to Bono
There are rock stars, and then there is Bono—a man who has spent decades balancing the weight of his myth with the earnestness of a preacher, the swagger of a showman, and the occasional self-awareness of a man who knows he’s been talking about himself for far too long. *Bono: Stories of Surrender*, directed by…
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Grand Theft Hamlet: The Virtual Tragedy of Prince Hamlet: A Machinima Odyssey in Los Santos
Movie Info: The chronicle doth recount the endeavors of Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen, who, in their confinement occasioned by the cursed pestilence of 2020 in fair Britannia, did resolve to enact the noble tragedy of Hamlet within the curious realm of Grand Theft Auto Online. These valiant souls, within their virtual sanctuary, did cast…
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Will & Harper: A Heartfelt Journey of Friendship and Self-Discovery”
MOVIE INFO: Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman. That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day at Saturday Night Live back in 1995. From…
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Kiss the Future: Bono Gets the Compensatory Noble Peace Prize
MOVIE INFO: KISS THE FUTURE, directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, story by Bill Carter and Cicin-Sain, screenplay by Carter, based on his memoir: “Fools Rush In,” is the story of defiance amid the 1990s siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film focuses on a vibrant underground community who used music and art to effect…
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King on Screen: King Directors Give Each Other Halos
Summary via IMDB: 1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror’s books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world . What’s so fascinating with him that the directors can’t…
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“Three Identical Strangers”: Alike But Never Fully There
The triplets are natural story tellers and actors and the sad reveal of their post eighties fame unravels with regrets, poignancy, pathos and an overpowering sense of their losses and their tragedy.
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“The Bleeding Edge”: Shows How the Medical Device Industry Is Bleeding Us Out
The Bleeding Edge is a cry for caution for patients not to accept the latest and greatest unless it has been thoroughly tried and true.
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“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Definitely Yes, Mr. Rogers!
I was a teen when Mr Rogers Neighborhood debuted. The series was not part of my formative childhood experiences. After watching Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and being reduced to a sobbing and repentant mess, I want to spend my life trying to catch up.