Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home Movie Review
Title: Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home Director: Thomas Napper Narrated by Catherine Keener, “Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home” provides a poignant, illuminating look at the titular…
Who Bombed Judi Bari? Movie Review
Title: Who Bombed Judi Bari? Director: Mary Liz Thomson An Earth First! environmental activist who battled the logging industry’s clear-cutting of old forest redwoods in Northern California, Judi Bari was…
Buffalo Girls Movie Review
Title: Buffalo Girls Director: Todd Kellstein An unflinching and unadorned look at Thailand’s underground world of children’s boxers — of which there are over 30,000, including many young females —…
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease Movie Review
Title: Ben Lee: Catch My Disease Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson Featuring: Michelle Williams, Jason Schwartzman, Zooey Deschanel, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Thurston Moore, Mike D, Ione Skye A rangy documentary look…
The Central Park Five Movie Review
Title: The Central Park Five Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon The Central Park Five is a 118 minute documentary that examines a racially intense case, with provocative doses…
Switch Movie Review
Title: Switch Director: Harry Lynch Is fracking polluting our water? How dangerous is nuclear energy? Will gasoline prices continue to rise forevermore? Can we honestly clean up coal? Or can…
Man at War Movie Review
Title: Man at War Director: Jacek Blawut A hopelessly myopic look at videogamers obsessed with a very specific computer flight simulator, documentary “Man at War” locks its sights on a…
The House I Live In Movie Review
Title: The House I Live In Director: Eugene Jarecki A searing, stirring and deeply humanistic documentary look at the collateral damage and some of the perhaps unintended consequences of the…
Learn About Some Of The World’s Dangerous Hotspots With HBO’s Witness
HBO is exploring drugs wars, ethnic tensions, gang violence and more with “Witness,” a four-part documentary series from award-winning filmmaker Michael Mann. The first part of the series, “Witness: Juarez,”…