Hot Docs 2015: Chuck Norris vs Communism Review
Easily one of the oddest entries in this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival and also one of the best, Chuck Norris Vs. Communism sheds light on a strange moment in Romanian history.
Hot Docs 2015: (T)error Review
For the first hour of it’s running time, (T)error is a slow build doc that borders on tedious despite incendiary subject matter, but the last section makes for a thrilling film that should not be missed.
Hot Docs 2015: Seth’s Dominion Review
As a portrait of an enigmatic cartoonist and comic book dream-weaver, Seth's Dominion is a wonderfully creative little doc that honors and embodies it’s subject, like few others.
Hot Docs 2015: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story Of The National Lampoon Review
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story Of The National Lampoon documents the rise of a comedic college newspaper to a national publication, told with loads of footage and overly nostalgic contemporary interviews.
Hot Docs 2015: The Wolfpack Review
The Wolfpack has all the elements of a fun, feel good documentary, that is if you ignore all the missing pieces that really make it sad and misjudged.
Hot Docs 2015: Listen To Me Marlon Review
Listen To Me Marlon is a surreal, intimate look at the iconic Brando, with stories told through the use of interview clips, vintage footage and, most tellingly, a series of tapes that the actor made for himself as a kind of hypnotic therapy.
Hot Docs 2015: Best of Enemies Reviews
Best of Enemies delves into one of the most profound and influential moments of American political life: the debates between stalwart conservative William F. Buckley and iconoclastic progressive Gore Vidal.
Hot Docs 2015: Jesus Town, USA Review
Jesus Town is a whimsically comical look at a small, Oklahoma town, with an 88 year old passion play that has just cast an unlikely Jesus Christ.
Hot Docs 2015: Above and Below Review
A stylistic, visually compelling treatise on loneliness and isolation, Above and Below explores the lives of people living on the margins of society, separated from civilization by barriers, concrete and abstract alike.
Hot Docs 2015: The Nightmare Review
Rodney Ascher's documentary brings peoples worst dreams to life in The Nightmare, a chilling exploration of sleep paralysis.
Gotham Episode 1.20 Recap
In Gotham, murder is all about the optics.
The Dork Shelf Guide to Hot Docs 2015
Our hub for all things Hot Docs 2015, running from April 23rd until May 3. Here you will find reviews, interviews, and more as we update it throughout the festival with additional, informative coverage.
Hot Docs 2015: Tig Review
Tig documents a year in the life of comedian Tig Notaro after being diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer and working this uncomfortable truth into one of the most revelatory stand-up sets of all time.
Hot Docs 2015: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Review
It’s hard not to see Brett Morgen’s documentation of Kurt Cobain’s life as anything short of definitive, using both character animation and wonderfully rendered motion graphics to present Cobain’s writings, musings and music in a visually stunning way.
Hot Docs 2015: Welcome To Leith Review
Pitched somewhere between a real world nightmare and sick black comedy, Welcome To Leith serves up a story so unlikely that it could only be real.
