A ‘was he/wasn’t he’ quandary is at the heart of Whitey: United States Of America V. James J. Bulger the new documentary […]
Film and DVD
FILM: A Most Wanted Man
You want to talk about feeling the loss of a great actor: mere minutes into director Anton Corbijn’s  A Most Wanted Man, […]
FILM: Life Itself
As one of our most influential and celebrated film critics, Roger Ebert would know full well that a good documentary needs to […]
FILM: Cold In July
I’ll admit to a certain prejudice for pre-liking (is that a word?) the new film Cold In July from IFC films. Based on […]
FILM: Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law
It may take a second glance to recognize the pompous prisoner with the muscles and sideburns in Richard Shepard’s comic adventure Dom […]
FILM: Finding Vivian Maier
Street photographer Vivian Maier was a nanny who’s photographs only became known and appreciated after her death and her story is as […]
FILM: Teenage
Surprising fact: Teenagers didn’t always exist. In this collection of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century […]
FILM: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The films of director Wes Anderson have become widely acclaimed for their idiosyncratic style and off-beat stories involving families and youth and […]
FILM: The Punk Singer
As I watched The Punk Singer, a documentary about Kathleen Hannah directed by Sini Anderson, I couldn’t help but think it an […]