Let Fury Have the Hour Movie Review
Title: Let Fury Have the Hour Director: Antonio D’Ambrosio A well meaning and deeply felt counter-culture documentary touting societal engagement, creative response to problems as well as activism more generally,…
Uprising Movie Review
Title: Uprising Director: Fredrik Stanton Simple, straightforward, first-person testimonials have been an integral part of nonfiction filmmaking for decades, lending voice to social issues and providing powerful personal contextualization for…
FrackNation Movie Review
Title: FrackNation Director: Phelim McAleer A nonfiction film about hydraulic fracturing aimed largely at debunking Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated “Gasland,” “FrackNation” is a slice of agitated environmental pushback, an impassioned but…
Only the Young Movie Review
Title: Only the Young Directors: Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims One can certainly enjoy The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” David Bowie’s “Young Americans” or even, to employ a more recent example, Fun’s…
Tchoupitoulas Movie Review
Title: Tchoupitoulas Directors: Bill Ross and Turner Ross A lyrical nonfiction offering that could be viewed as a sort of companion piece to “Beasts of the Southern Wild” by way…
16 Acres Movie Review
Title: 16 Acres Director: Richard Hankin Ever wonder exactly how and why, more than a decade since the September 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers in…
American Empire Movie Review
Title: American Empire Director: Patrea Patrick A jumbled nonfiction jeremiad of raw-nerve feeling built around at once ominous and vague proclamations of “where we’re going” as a country, “American Empire”…
Trashed Movie Review
Title: Trashed Director: Candida Brady Featuring: Jeremy Irons A vividly sketched documentary of environmental warning which deploys co-producer Jeremy Irons as its inquisitive guide, “Trashed” sets out to discover the…
West Memphis Three Documentary ‘West of Memphis’ Premieres In New York
The harrowing new documentary ‘West of Memphis,’ premiered at Florence Gould Hall in New York on Friday night. Written and directed by Amy Berg, the film sheds light on the…