Documentary
Full disclosure: I’ve been a fan of P!nk’s since hearing “Most Girls” in 2000. As early as this part of her nascent career, I could tell she was a disruptor. She wasn’t happy with being slammed into the same space as her female contemporaries. Everything was different – her look, sound, vocal tone, and a […]
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Just after the opening credits and an introductory bit of interview, David Crosby is seen leaving for his tour. As his car slowly pulls out of his driveway, the angle switches from a rising crane shot to an overhead drone/helicopter shot. His chauffeured black Cadillac SUV rolls from left to right with the camera following, eventually […]
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Meet James Ragan, founder of the Triumph Over Kid Cancer charity. At 13, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – bone cancer – for which there is little hope for a cure. Googling his name will, no doubt, give you articles upon articles which tell his story. However, hearing it from himself in the powerful documentary […]
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The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised Will not be televised, will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run brothers The revolution will be live — Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” With those words ringing out amidst a blast of bongos, Bao Nguyen takes us on a […]
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The Mind of Mark DeFriest is a documentary about two things: how sadly pathetic our justice system can be at times, and about how many holes a man can dig for himself. Filmmaker Gabriel London’s passion project about Mark DeFriest, a man originally jailed for what may not have been a crime in the first […]
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If filmmaker Gabe Polsky’s biggest dream was to play in the NHL after his college hockey career at Yale, then making “Red Army” surely must have been runner-up. While this hockey doc will undoubtedly be a magnet for enthusiasts of the sport, less savvy audiences should be taken by its riveting story, which is more like […]
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Established in 1985 by ex-pilot and former “Wild Kingdom” host Stan Brock, Remote Area Medical was originally devised to provide care to areas of the Amazon rainforest where medicine was otherwise inaccessible. Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman’s “Remote Area Medical” centers on Brock’s operation in Bristol, Tennessee, a region that RAM’s scruffy 78-year-old founder says is “not too remote” […]
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Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones – better known to the world as Nas – released an album in 1994 that would change the face of hip-hop forever. That album? “Illmatic.” Honestly, for me in 1994, it didn’t get better than Public Enemy, N.W.A., Snoop Doggy Dogg, Digital Underground, and other popular rap acts of the […]
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I’m going to get this right out of the way: The Kill Team is an absolutely disheartening film. Disheartening because we see how souls and humanity are lost in wartime, with some of our boys wanting nothing more than to get their guns off. To me, this is one of the most horrific things a […]
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The doctors featured in “Code Black” are about as photogenic as the characters in “ER” or any of numerous other emergency room based melodramas. But these guys aren’t acting. One of them is Ryan McGarry, also the director and co-writer of this documentary (he wrote it with the film’s editor, Joshua Altman). McGarry, who was […]
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