Lenny Cooke Movie Review
Title: Lenny Cooke Directors: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Steve James’ superb documentary “Hoop Dreams” set the bar for complex examinations of high school basketball players with lofty aspirations of making…
TuTu Much DVD Review
Title: TuTu Much Directed by: Elise Swerhone Running time: 83 minutes, Unrated, released 11/12/13 Every year, girls from around the world audition for the Summer School at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg…
Dear Mr. Watterson Movie Review
Title: Dear Mr. Watterson: An Exploration of Calvin & Hobbes Director: Joel Allen Schroeder A big-hearted but overly fawning documentary about the impact of the popular newspaper comic strip of…
Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey Movie Review
Title: Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey Director: Wendy J.N. Lee A well-meaning documentary of environmental compassion, “Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey” details the joint trek across hundreds of miles of…
Medora Movie Review
Title: Medora Director: Davy Rothbart and Andrew Cohn A measured but emotionally effective gut-punch lament for the death rattle of small town America as told through the prism of a…
Running From Crazy Movie Review
Title: Running From Crazy Director: Barbara Kopple A terrifically affecting documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple (“Harlan County, USA,” “American Dream”) “Running From Crazy” details the long and frequently…
The Prime Ministers Movie Review
Title: The Prime Ministers Director: Richard Trank An insider’s account of almost six decades of Israeli history, the deadly dull “The Prime Ministers” is a Zionist booster shot that trades…
Seduced and Abandoned Movie Review
Title: Seduced and Abandoned Director: James Toback Starring: Alec Baldwin, James Toback, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Roman Polanski, Jessica Chastain, James Caan, Diane Kruger, Francis Ford Coppola, Diabo Cody, Neve…
Enzo Avitabile Music Life Movie Review
Title: Enzo Avitabile Music Life Director: Jonathan Demme After the mega-success of “The Silence of the Lambs,” it would have been very easy for Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme to…