"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin The hardest part about watching I Am Not Your Negro, easily 2016's best documentary and most essential viewing, is watching it. More than once, I cringed, winced, looked away, closed my ...
The Indie in the Blockbuster
Like Lincoln last year and [insert period drama here] before that, 12 Years A Slave has been an anticipated film for months and is expected to make quite a sweep come awards season. And like anyone keeping track of these things, 12 Years A Slave was on my list of films to see as soon as the ...
Life in 179 minutes
If you've heard of Blue is the Warmest Color at all, you've heard that it features a fairly explicit sex scene between our protagonist and her first girlfriend. If you've heard a little more about Blue, you've heard that the director and his actresses have been feuding in the awesome way Europeans ...
Watch This: Brooklyn Castle
I am a documentary junkie. I watch documentaries like your grandma watches her soaps - often and voraciously. A well-made documentary is one of the most compelling uses of visual storytelling, and I'm always on the hunt for a new one. Enter Brooklyn Castle. From 2012, this is not your typical ...
An indie from Austin
I'd heard rumblings about this great little film, something called Short Term 12 - but what a curious title. And what could I really expect of it? Having made its debut at SXSW instead of Sundance, it was one of this year's slate of indies I wasn't too terribly familiar with. But little by ...