Category: Documentary
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Sundance Festival Movie Review – Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
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If you are a fan of recent films Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, this is the documentary you must see this year. This is a film that is nostalgic and fun, sure, but it’s also an eye-opening look at the history of children’s television. When you get a…
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What I Saw During the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
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in Animated, Behind the Scenes at RunPee, Comedy, Day Killer, Documentary, Drama, Dystopian, Entertainment Destinations, Entertainment Events, Entertainment News, Family, Fantasy, Film Festivals, Historical, Horror, Indie and vintage films, Limited release, List, Movie Opinions and Lists, Movie summary, Romance, ThrillerI recently got to attend the 2021 Sundance Film Festival online. It was a wonderful experience. I got to see an array of unique films. and discover some new favorites. While I’ll be posting reviews of my favorite films from the festival, it would be impossible to review everything I experienced. Here, though, is a…
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Indie Documentary Review – Sex, Drugs & Bicycles
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Buy one, get one free! Yes, you can have a political documentary AND a comedy. Ok, maybe it’s not screamingly funny but wryly amusing, observational humour can definitely be used as a description. What we have in Sex, Drugs & Bicycles is an American, Jonathan Block — Writer/Director/Narrator — who fondly remembers a trip to The…
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Indie Documentary Review – Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
I’m assuming that, like me, you’ve seen more than your fair share of films. And, yes, I know that when you start assuming you make an ass of you and ming… or something like that. I find that there are times when a film may be less than fully captivating and your concentration might start…
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Exclusive Interview With Documentary Producer Darcy Weir – Director of Volcanic UFO Mysteries
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing producer Darcy Weir, whose latest documentary focuses on the relationship between UFO sightings and Latin American volcanoes. We had a fascinating discussion about UFOs, extraterrestrials, alien abductions, artificial intelligence, the singularity, Space X, secret space programs, nuclear weapon issues, underground military bases, crop circles, and so much more. Weir…
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Indie Movie Review – Volcanic UFO Mysteries
UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects, are a staple of sci-fi films. From the White-House-destroying ship in Independence Day to the possibly more benevolent aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the terrifying alien abduction in Fire in the Sky. (Okay, that last one’s based on a true story.) But what if UFOs are…
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Indie Documentary Review – Sacred Cow: The Nutritional, Environmental and Ethical Case for Better Meat
Sacred Cow or Sacred Cow: The Nutritional, Environmental and Ethical Case for Better Meat, to give it its Sunday name, is a documentary about meat. Eating it, preparing it, cooking it, raising it — from semen collection to serving up… almost. Perhaps not so much of the semen end of the process; that was a different time…
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Documentary Review – Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You
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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have been together since October 1972; pretty much continuously and pretty much unchanged. While the Bruce and the band are thought to be synonymous and a performing unit they have played with a wide range of other acts including, but not confined to: Air Supply, Gary U.S. Bonds,…
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All the Bands and Albums featured in Vinyl Generation
The new documentary Vinyl Generation features a ton of bands and record albums, including many Czechoslovakian rock bands. Didn’t get a glimpse of that one album when it flashed on the screen? Trying to figure out what that song was you liked? I’ve got you covered. Below is a list of every band, song, and…
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Indie Review – Vinyl Generation
In 1980s Czechoslovakia, rock ‘n roll was basically outlawed. The documentary Vinyl Generation starts with two survivors from that time comparing record albums and telling stories about how they used to have to go to the woods to trade records. Even then, they might get busted by police informers in disguise. People would get…
