Like many, I learn about my subcultures from The Howard Stern Show, which had sent a correspondent to cover this year’s BronyCon, an annual fan convention for f...
A micro-budget midnight selection, Summer of Blood seems, apart from several contemporary references, an indie of another era. Written, directed and starring On...
Employing multiple modes of documentary storytelling, from talking heads, undercover reporting and on-the-ground war reporting, Virunga is a potentially paradig...
While it's not the most perceptive film exploring the diversity of the lesbian experience, Life Partners has several insightful comic moments that ring true. Th...
Goodbye to All That initially provides us with little context, launching directly into what on the outside seems to be a functional loving marriage between Otto...
Opening in New London, CT, Lou Howe’s Gabriel begins with its title character (played by Rory Culkin) in search of his long-lost girlfriend Alice with the inten...
“We live in cities, you’ll never see on screen. Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things," says Lorde her hit Team. The opening moments of Home, Jame...
The latest cockumentary, The Final Member has somewhat grander ambitions than Brian Spitz’s quest UnHung Hero, where a size-conscious fellow attempts to unzip g...
Cuban Fury mostly delivers the kind of funny, silly and delightful comedy as you’d expect from something “based on an original idea” by Nick Frost, best known a...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
