A rousing and brief examination of the power & purpose of journalism with women journalist in southern India fighting for truth and justice. It is inspiring if perhaps a little quaint and slight in emotional weight. Solidly made.
I had hopes for this one but it felt a touch amateurish and disinclined with true exploration. It seems to lose its way in the weeds of keyboard mysticism and spellbound character oddities.
A tremendous music doc, with outstanding and gripping performances, equally matched by the informative nature of the event. About the place, the people, and the significance it held. The juxtapositions on display, whether against Woodstock or the moon landing for examples, was eerie and potent. It helped to show the dichotomies on exhibit in memory and importance. The entire fact that this amazing show was swept under the rug and lost to time for so long shouts out the tragedy and imbalance of who gets to decide what is important, matters for the long term, and whose voices truly count. Its beautiful to see this willed into existence and exposed to the light of us all.
Seeing these Catholic sex abuse victims having their excruciating pain made manifest was rending. It approached these more personal encounters with these horrendous tragedies in an explicitly unique and novel approach, as they act out their stories in dramatic pseudo-realistic therapeutic interpretations.
With the number of different characters, personalities, and stories, some of the details are surface and the totality gets a bit scattered. But the poignancy is still significant.
A leering journey through the professional lives of Chinese citizens and the societal structure built in and around it. Metaphors and lyrical wafting symbolize the aetheric omniscience on display. It is fascinating, funny, sometimes frightening, and always fulfilling. An expose that felt occult and unknown.
Want some depression about the end, as science paves the path for our ultimate demise? Moby’s got you! Some interesting facts/theories, but played out like a 6th grade science class video.
I really wanted this one to be better, being a big fan of Free Solo. It is quite good and an incredible story, I was just hoping for excellent. I did find the craft quite smart and gripping, I just didn’t love it.
A sad but compelling examination of a tremendous actress/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, and her tragic death right before her creation The Waitress came out. A worthy watch.
The was a blaring and glaring look at the life and career of Val Kilmer, told in his own perspective. Really well made and highly appealing, while tugging on heartstrings; human and cinema lover alike.
An easily entrancing tale of convulsing truths, filled with naivety, intrigue, Nazis, and wolves. The depths may not be plumbed to their utmost, but it is so easily watchable and generally enjoyable.
Fun use of avatars, a conscious blending and blurring the lines of what is being covered and embraced.
Media heavy and though potentially deep subject matter, keeps it light and actively enjoyable. AT least until the focus on an unfortunate murder by someone who had lost themselves in the possibility of this world being less real & substantial.