Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Movie Review
Title: Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Director: Fredrik Gertten In 2009, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s “Bananas!*” was just one of more than a dozen nonfiction competition entries in the Los…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Movie Review
Title: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Director: Alison Klayman A compelling documentary that explodes proper and stuffy notions of what a foreign intellectual dissident looks and sounds like, “Ai Weiwei: Never…
Searching for Sugar Man Movie Review
Title: Searching for Sugar Man Director: Malik Bendjelloul Winner of jury and audience prizes at both the Sundance and Los Angeles Film Festivals, Malik Bendjelloul’s “Searching for Sugar Man” is…
Exclusive: Director Alison Klayman Talks Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
The runner-up for Time Magazine’s 2011 “Person of the Year,” Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei was named by “ArtReview” as the most powerful artist in the world. Weiwei rose to international…
DVD Review: Comic-Con Episode IV, Adventure Time and Chicago in Chicago
Smartly timed to coincide on DVD with this year’s just-wrapped convention, the laboriously titled “Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope” shines a nonfiction spotlight on the crazed, annual fanboy gathering…
China Heavyweight Movie Review
Title: China Heavyweight Director: Yung Chang Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang drew praise for 2007’s “Up the Yangtze,” which focused on the many socioeconomically disadvantaged people impacted by the building of…
Trailer For Documentary Wild Horse, Wild Ride Released
Animal documentaries are probably some of the most beloved documentaries, and “Wild Horse, Wild Ride” seems to follow in that direction. Horse lovers especially can surely appreciate “Wild Horse, Wild…
Top Priority: The Terror Within Movie Review
Title: Top Priority: The Terror Within Director: Asif Akbar An intensely felt but jumbled and poorly reasoned cinematic treatise against governmental bureaucracy run amok and specifically a series of Constitutional…
Pelotero: Ballplayer Movie Review
Title: Pelotero: Ballplayer Directors: Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin, Jon Paley Sports as a tool for upward social mobility is of course nothing new — in generations past, boxing was a…