Elevate Movie Review
Title: Elevate Director: Anne Buford As basketball has spread across the world, so too has the view of it as a unique opportunity, and a tool for upward social mobility.…
Revenge of the Electric Car Movie Review
Title: Revenge of the Electric Car Director: Chris Paine Documentary sequels are few and far between, but maybe they should be more frequent, because as events in society change, so…
The Man Nobody Knew Movie Review
Title: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Director: Carl Colby Both individually and collectively, Americans may profess a desire for honesty, but the…
Denis Leary To Executive Produce Firefighter Documentary, Kickstarter.com Campaign In Place
Firefighters are people who are close to Denis Leary’s heart–his cousin and childhood friend were firefighters, and tragically, his cousin, friend and four other firefighters were killed in a 1999…
Bombay Beach Movie Review
Title: Bombay Beach Director: Alma Har’el A strikingly photographed and well constructed snapshot of American despair, and the winner of the Best Documentary prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival,…
Klitschko Movie Review
Title: Klitschko Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt Proving its subjects uncommon thinkers as well as uncommon fighters, the new documentary “Klitschko” is a surprisingly humanizing and informative look at the Ukrainian-born world…
Hell and Back Again Movie Review
Title: Hell and Back Again Director: Danfung Dennis Not to suggest that the two are in any way equivalent, but wading through Afghanistan and Iraq war documentaries, whose prevalence and…
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Movie Review
Title: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Director: Gereon Wetzel For the first six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his tiny restaurant elBulli, overlooking Catalonia’s Costa…
Connected Movie Review
Title: Connected Director: Tiffany Shlain A documentary snapshot of the blurry, ever-evolving intersection of the relationship between technology and human bonds and grander societal development, “Connected” is wonderfully emblematic of…