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Expedition to the End of the World | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Dencik Sails For Science and Existentialism At first glance, Danish director Daniel Dencik’s Expedition to the End of the World seems a blatant ripoff of Werner Herzog’s graceful examination of modern Antarctica in Encounters
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Blood Brother | Hot Docs 2013 Review
India, AIDS & Amity: Hoover Follows Friend’s Heart It’s really no wonder that often when westerners find themselves drifting, looking for more from life, they drop everything and journey off into the unknown, and
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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s | Review
Glossy Emptiness; Fashion’s Greatest Church The measure of success used in the fashion industry is unlike any used in other commercial art. Rather than massive popularity and accessibility, exclusivity is the name of the
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12 O’Clock Boys | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Battles In Baltimore: Nathan Rides With The Boys First time director Lotfy Nathan has spent the last few years documenting war in the streets of Baltimore, though not against drugs or the classic gang-bangers
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Fuck For Forest | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Exploits For Earth: Marczak Gazes Into The Gutter After the breakout success of his docu debut At the Edge of Russia, Polish director Michal Marczak found himself following the sexual and political exploits of
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15 Reasons To Live | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Zweig Somberly Celebrates Human Resilience Occasionally, moments of epiphany can boil down the colossal essence of mortality into simple, elegant terms. For Alan Zweig, director of the LP obsessed docu Vinyl, one of those
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Alias | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Latimer Drops Beat On Toronto’s Rap Scene Taking it’s name from one of the four Toronto street rappers it peeks into the lives of, Michelle Latimer’s Alias examines the cyclic struggles of urban hip-hoppers
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The Manor | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Polemic Crisis: Cohen Turns Camera On His Fam Having flown the coop over a decade ago to work in the film industry as a digital effects artist, first time feature director Shawney Cohen decided
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No Place on Earth | Review
The Descent: Tobias Brings Recently Discovered Holocaust Tale to Light For her directorial debut, producer Janet Tobias documents a harrowing discovery made by a spelunker in the early 90s with No Place on Earth,
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Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner | Review
Family Portrait: Kleine’ Uses Husband as Subject for Light Documentary Fans of director and actor Andre Gregory should be excited, and, overall, pleased with director Cindy Kleine’s documentary about her husband, Andre Gregory: Before
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Downloaded | 2013 SXSW Review
From Napster to Now, Winter Examines the Downloading Boom Napster’s rise and fall and the ensuing decade of music piracy is at this point common knowledge but it is easy to forget that at
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | 2013 SXSW Review
Peering in: A Look into the Life of Harry Dean Stanton It took director Sophie Huber one year to convince Harry Dean Stanton to be the subject of her documentary. He finally complied but
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My Amityville Horror | Review
Dysfunction Junction: Walter Revisits Source of Classic Horror Film with Mixed Results Thanks to Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 film adaptation of Jay Anson’s infamous novel, “The Amityville Horror”, along with its various sequels, not to
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A Place at the Table | Review
Filling The Void: Jacobson and Silverbush Eye Hunger While the United States continuously extends its charitable hands to famished communities the world over, we often turn a blind eye to those in our own
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The Last Gladiators | Review
Fight Club: Gibney Finds Tragedy In ‘Knuckles’ Nilan The assiduous docu director Alex Gibney wrapped three films back in 2011, all of which seem minor works in his ever growing oeuvre, and the proof
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
