The Great Invisible Special Presentations There’s the obvious destruction of wildlife and commerce (and human deaths) that came in the wake of the disastrous BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill in April of 2010, but Margaret Brown goes poetically and humanely beneath the surface of the slick to show what still survives as […]
Happy Valley Special Presentations Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story, My Kid Could Pain That!) takes a look at two very murky conflicts at play in the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State Football sex abuse scandal: being a supporter vs. being a part of a cult of personality and moral guilt vs. legal guilt. It’s a complex and […]
Beyond Clueless Nightvision UK film critic Charlie Lyne looks at the teen movie craze of the mid-to-late 90s and early aughts and the universal time tested themes within via a poignant and vibrant visual essay film. Although featuring remarkably little of the titular film (although its influence looms large over the proceedings), Lyne looks at […]
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Canadian Spectrum Finally, a food advocacy stunt documentary where people not only immediately regret their project, but one that actually delivers a clear, coherent, easily agreeable thesis without seeming didactic or menacing. Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer outdo their previous look at waste (The Clean Bin Project) with […]
Happiness Special Presentation At times skewing towards the disingenuous and manufactured (especially in its strange regard to manufactured sound and the presentation of a timeline), this still overall winning look at life in rural Bhutan manages plenty of fascinating moments amid French filmmaker Thomas Balmès’s gorgeously picturesque setting. Although television and the internet were finally […]
Jay and Big D (his 9 year old daughter) review the first issue of Herobear and the Kid: Saving Time.
Whatever you thought of Marc Webb’s previous outing in the rebooting of the Spider-man Marvel Comics franchise is precisely what you’ll think of The Amazing Spider-man 2 with very little deviation.
This week’s Game of Thrones has a lot to say about the promises we make (and break) in order to assert our identities. It also has a lot to show off in terms of how babies get made.
There’s a lot at work in this story: loss, love, and more than a smidgeon of lunacy, making Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth one of the most refreshing reads of 2014.
Vessel World Showcase This powerful story of Dutch doctor and women’s rights activist Rebecca Gomperts and her Women on Waves campaign would make for a great documentary just by examining what they do every year, but in the hand of Diana Whitten – who devoted a whopping seven years of her life to making and […]
The Creator of the Jungle Next For over 45 years, one of the world’s best unknown artists has been toiling away in the Spanish forests. Garrell (real name Josep Pijula) has crafted some of the most gorgeous hidden structures known to man: sky high towers built up in the trees, enormous and elaborate labyrinths, and […]
Alfred and Jakobine Love, Factually If you were just suddenly dumped quite unceremoniously and without warning after spending six years with someone and having their kid, could you forgive them decades later as a final act of love? That’s the tough questing being raised by filmmakers Jonathan Howells and Tom Roberts in this fascinatingly nostalgic […]
To Be Takei Special Presentations While director Jennifer Kroot and co-director/editor Bill Webber do a fine job of showcasing what makes actor, writer, and human rights activist George Takei such a fascinating and important historical figure when it comes to Asian and gay actors, the movie they made around him is a maddeningly disjointed mess. […]
In Country World Showcase The woods outside of Salem, Oregon might be the last place one might expect to see a re-enactment of a Vietnam war battle, but for a dedicated band of weekend warrior brothers (many of who are actual veterans of foreign wars from Vietnam to Iraq) in Delta Company 2/5, it’s a […]
This episode Orphan Black gave us more insight into the science-obsessed new sect of Proletheans that have captured Helena. While Alison deals with the aftermath of Aynsley's death, Cosima falls deeper down the Dyad Institute rabbit hole, and Sarah enlists Art's help to find Kira, but is shocked as to where the trail leads. Shenanigans ensue.
