It's possible that to the uninitiated, Werner Herzog may be a bit of an enigma. Is he a documentarian? An actor? A screenwriter? A historian? Something else entirely? The fact is, he's all of the above; your kids have seen him as a brooding outsider in the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian" and your ...
Archives for August 2020
Review: Get Duked!
At some point since its premiere at 2019’s SXSW Film Festival, Get Duked! got re-titled. Originally called Boyz in the Wood, one imagines there were some copyright issues with that nod to John Singleton’s classic, so the film was re-christened to reference the very real Duke of Edinburgh Award ...
Review: Boys State
There's a moment not too long into Boys State, the Sundance Grand Jury award-winning documentary about the annual mock-government conference for Texas high schoolers run by the American Legion now streaming on AppleTV, that might have you wanting to scream in frustration. Or maybe that's just ...
Review: Sputnik
When it comes to Russian horror films, I don't exactly have a deep expertise. Thankfully, such a viewing history isn't required to get a thrill out of Sputnik, the latest from IFC Midnight to be released creatively during these topsy-turvy times for movies—now available on major streaming platforms, ...
Review: Represent
In 2002, a lot of documentaries about 9/11 were released. In 2009, it was economics and the recession. 2020 is proving to be the year of the political documentary, as something about the country's two most recent elections apparently triggered every documentarian's spidey senses. Earlier this month, ...