Don’t watch the Netflix documentary series Captive to learn what you could do to avoid the situations its subjects find themselves in. The only agenda Captive has is to tell as much of the story it can, with testimony from as many…
See Werner Herzog’s Fiery New Trailer
Hot on the heels of Werner Herzog’s last documentary Lo and Behold, Netflix has released the trailer for the platform’s own Herzog doc, Into the Inferno. From the trailer, this looks like Herzog in top form—it contains dramatic, heavily accented narration…
Movie Review: Floyd Norman – An Animated Life
Legendary Disney animator Floyd Norman—one of the company’s first African-American artists—is touted as three things in the advertising for Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey’s new documentary Floyd Norman: An Animated Life. The first is “animator.” Obvious enough: after a childhood…
Movie Review: “My Love, Don’t Cross That River”- Love, Life, and Loss in the Korean Mountains
I always know when a movie will make me cry, starting as a deep swelling in the chest. The throat tightens up, the joints go loose, and soon the hot drops drip down the cheeks. If a movie is good, or…
Movie Review: The Other Side | Charting the American Nightmare
A life-sized cardboard cut-out of John Wayne looms over the interior of an organized militia compound. One of the founders promises new recruits that the Second American Revolution is inevitable. When the United Nations arrive, he warns there won’t even…
Movie Review: ‘Above and Below’
Above and Below is a documentary that cherishes the little moments of its characters, but dreads the crushing overarching reality of their lives and, in a strange way, our own. We are given three stories, each one unique enough to…