When Fred Rogers sang the iconic title song of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at the beginning of the documentary, a chorus of audience members singing along rose up...
Along with the creeping destabilization of the Middle East and the spiraling growth of the war economy, the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq also help...
Late in Makala, lead subject Kabwita, exhausted after innumerable tribulations, enters a church for spiritual renewal. The preacher declaims that the Book of Jo...
Social media discourse around The 15:17 to Paris has already positioned it as the first big cinematic culture war flashpoint of the year. But while liberal thin...
Every minute, hundreds of hours of video are uploaded to YouTube and novels’ worth of words are posted on Facebook and Twitter. Who sorts through all this conte...
Structurally, Hale County This Morning, This Evening does not do much to distinguish itself from other contemporary vérité documentaries which focus on quotidia...
Five million Syrians have fled their country since the civil war began in 2011. Despite the United States bearing a large part of the responsibility for the con...
According to statistics presented in this documentary, there are currently around 45 million people enslaved around the world. This is not a macro view of the s...
Once again, Spike Lee has found an innovative theatrical production and brought it to blistering cinematic life. Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over, produced in 2017...
Shirkers was the name of the script Sandi Tan wrote in the early ‘90s. A cinema-obsessed 18-year-old living in famously strict Singapore, Tan was inspired by th...
