• May 5, 2025
• Film Festivals

Hot Docs is now over, the awards have been handed out, and my coverage is winding to a close. My final tally of documentaries watched is 48 — not...

• May 4, 2025
• Film Festivals

Whether it’s fighting for equal rights, challenging the status quo, striving to make the world a better place, or all of those things combined, documentaries at this year’s fest...

• April 18, 2020
• At Home, Documentary

The cinematic portrayal of an antiquarian bookseller is usually of a gray-haired old guy in a tweed jacket who grumbles whenever he is disturbed by a customer. The bookstore...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Documentary

In 2006, Vice President Al Gore used his fame to explode environmentalism into the mainstream. Using a PowerPoint slide presentation as the core of his message, he managed to...

• November 17, 2017
• At Home, Documentary

There’s something so unreal and ephemeral about carnivals that it’s almost strange to think about them in practical terms. They appear every year with their dependable variations on rides,...

• January 18, 2017
• At Home, Documentary

Let me start by saying, yes, I’m a member of Generation X, born smack in the middle of the generation described in the opening of this documentary series as...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Documentary

We’re all familiar with that “new” smell that accompanies Christmas morning, a birthday, or a big shopping trip. In some ways it evokes positive feelings of presents and shiny...

• September 1, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

When a disaster as epic as Hurricane Katrina strikes, there is a period of time where we’re all well aware of the scale of the devastation.  One look at...

• August 24, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

Global warming isn’t funny. I’ve known this since elementary school, and have always been conscious about recycling, driving a fuel efficient car, etc. Even so, the trailer for The...

• March 6, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Science Fiction

This documentary is for anyone who is an admitted (or in-denial) Star Trek fan, or for anyone who enjoyed the movie Galaxy Quest. It’s a no-frills low budget film...

• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Imagine proposing to your girlfriend at a sporting event and having her stare at you in shock, then shake her head and walk away. This unfolds on the Jumbotron...

• September 8, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

You’d think that with the dirty campaigning shown in Street Fight that it was a national election, for President or Senate. But no, this is Newark, New Jersey, circa...