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Tag: docs

reviews

SIDE BY SIDE

We’ve reached a crossroads with the films we watch. The question is, are we better off?

Posted on October 17, 2012October 22, 2012
reviews

KNUCKLEBALL!

With the baseball postseason poised to begin, a new doc is making the rounds about a rare breed of pitcher. So rare in fact, that there’s only two of a kind in the game today.

Posted on October 3, 2012April 4, 2013
festivals, reactions, TIFF

ROOM 237 Plays TIFF

Sometimes a chair is just a chair.

Posted on September 14, 2012September 15, 2012
festivals, reactions, TIFF

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH Plays TIFF 2012

TIFF gives us a lesson in creative energy and joyful artwork in a new doc about a cheeky icon.

Posted on September 7, 2012September 12, 2012
blogathon, reactions, watchin' & writin'

Sweet Pain: AMERICAN MOVIE

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear what I just watched was written by The Coen Brothers.

Posted on July 16, 2012December 24, 2012
guest spots, podcasts

Elsewhere – Talkin MARLEY on The Unnamed Movie Podcast

take my talents to The Caribbean to talk about a musical icon with G-Man.

Posted on May 8, 2012May 13, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

DETROPIA plays Hot Docs

The city that bred legends like Henry Ford, Joe Louis, and Stevie Wonder is in crisis.

Posted on May 6, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THEO FLEURY: PLAYING WITH FIRE plays Hot Docs

No matter how famous you become, sometimes you just can’t outrun your past.

Posted on May 5, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

SEXY BABY plays Hot Docs

If sex is everywhere, how is it that our attitude about sex is so damned screwed up?

Posted on May 5, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE plays Hot Docs

The artists of the new millennium are every bit as tortured as the artists who came before.

Posted on May 4, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY plays Hot Docs

It must have been so tempting to make a film for the fans. Happily, Stacy Peralta took a more nuanced approach and came up with pure joy.

Posted on May 4, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

MARLEY plays Hot Docs

The first surprise is how many new stories there are to be told about an icon like Bob Marley. The second surprise is that it has taken this long for such stories to be told at all.

Posted on May 3, 2012January 13, 2014

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