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Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Documentary
Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy Farmer’s Jailhouse to Milhouse. So many documentaries about celebrities working through hard times to their career glory tend to be so flattering and clean that one can feel the lawyers in the room – for examples, witness the recent docs on Disney+ about Jim Henson and Stan […]
Public Defender (2024)
It is not a job that anyone would be angling for. Who wants to be the public defender fighting for those going to trial for their involvement in the January 6th riots. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. And, in Andrea Kalin’s documentary Public Defender that person is Heather Shaner, a […]
The Herricanes (2024)
Did you know there was a women’s football league in the laye 70s that played for four seasons? Neither did I, but given the tow-hold that women have been struggling to gain in every male-dominated field since the women’s movement of the early 1970s, it didn’t surprise me. But yes, just like A League of their […]
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2024)
Safe to say that no filmmaker in the history of the medium had a better understanding of his audience than Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Hitch had us by the throat. He famously said that he played his audience like a piano, and mercifully, he played tunes worth listening to. His films were approachable perhaps in the […]
Starring Jerry as Himself
When you find something that you love, you tend to given in to the temptation to want to become a connoisseur. That’s kind of how I feel about documentaries, possibly my favorite genre. I could watch an entire marathon of documentaries and, in fact, at this year’s Sidewalk Film Festival, I gave an entire day […]
God + Country (2024)
I have been very quick to knock any film for having a preaching-to-the-choir narrative, whether it is on the right or the left. It’s hard to both-sides an issue anymore and keep the public’s attention. Everyone, it seems, wants to hear what they want to hear. The struggle comes in making that narrative at least […]
