Documentary

Welcome to the world of male strippers, says actor Joe Manganiello’s documentary La Bare. It’s not exactly as exorbitant or excessive as Magic Mike (in which Manganiello played a stripper called Big Dick Richie), a point which La Bare wastes no time in emphasizing. No sex, no drugs, no excessive partying – these fellas are […]

As the son of two Filipino immigrants who came here legally in the ’60s, Documented hits me right in the gut. Trying to remain objective about this is a bit of a struggle for me, as I have internalized the sacrifices my parents and their families made for us to be here. Fellow Filipino-American Jose […]

“Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.” With these words, physicist Savas Dimopolous describes the scientific method in a nutshell. There are few fields in which failure is met with almost as much zest as success, owing to the fact that data can still be culled from said […]

Right across the border from El Paso, Texas, the world’s most violent city lies in wait. Juárez, Mexico seems to be the hotbed of a war between the various drug cartels that have Mexico in a bloody grip. As Narco Cultura’s narrator Richi Soto tells us at the start, murders in Juárez have risen beyond […]

Whether it’s the fried chicken at Breitbach’s country buffet in Balltown, Iowa, the southwestern-style stew at Tucson’s modest Mexican restaurant La Cocina De Gabby, or Grant Achatz’s latest feat of molecular-gastronomy at Chicago’s world-renowned Alinea, you’ll find a history of tradition and adversity behind it.  That’s the basis for Joseph Levy’s palatable documentary “Spinning Plates”, […]

Click here to watch this Emmy Award-winning documentary instantly. Watching long-time Men’s Fashion Center manager Willie Carswell talking to passers-by on the sidewalk, it’s tough to tell whether he’s about to launch into a sales pitch or a sermon. Like his loud, orange pinstriped suit and freshly polished wing tips, the store, virtually a relic […]