Sean Glass

Microphone Check One Two What is This?: One of the Best Hip-Hop Docs Out There

The Music Never Stopped will please older audiences, and some of the less cultured younger ones, but apart from that never make much of a dent. Movies like this will always show at festivals such as Sundance for some reason. Perhaps it’s for the cast. Who knows? They break no ground. They are not the future. They are not even a well-oiled version of the past, just repackaging of it.

Music That Gets Under Your Skin: Sundance-like Pic Doesn't Shake, Rattle or Roll

I first saw the original Hobo with a Shotgun when it won the SXSW Grindhouse trailer contest a few years ago. I was pleased to hear it was the same guys who did Treevenge, the Sundance short about, well, Christmas trees getting revenge.

This is a real time documentary about a man returning to the scene of his crimes and trying to start fresh—whether his victims want him or not. Much of the doc's success can be credited to the filmmakers for deciding what film they were making and sticking to it, for every minute of Butt Naked is purposeful, so we are left with the very rare well-paced documentary film.