All posts tagged "Documentary"
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Jim Batts | October 10, 2024
PIECE BY PIECE – Review
Here’s a challenge for even the most respected and revered documentarians: how do you make your film different...
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Cate Marquis | March 15, 2024
FRIDA – Review
Frida Kahlo remains endlessly intriguing, in part because the Mexican artist’s colorful paintings remain striking, mysterious and even...
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Movie Geeks | March 9, 2024
Win Passes To The St. Louis Advance Screening Of FRIDA
Streaming exclusively on Prime Video on Thursday, March 14th is Amazon MGM Studios documentary FRIDA. An intimately raw...
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Cate Marquis | November 21, 2023
PLAN C – SLIFF Review
PLAN C is a timely documentary spotlighting a pro-choice non-profit organization called Plan C, which is dedicated to...
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Cate Marquis | November 19, 2023
KING COAL – SLIFF Review
KING COAL is a hauntingly-beautiful, poetic documentary that immerses us in the stunning wilderness of Appalachia and opens...
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Cate Marquis | October 23, 2023
THE PIGEON TUNNEL – Review
If it is true that to be a great writer, you need an unusual childhood, then the great...
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Jim Batts | October 19, 2023
SILVER DOLLAR ROAD – Review
As the year-end holidays start to become everyone’s main focus here’s a documentary feature that zeros in on...
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Cate Marquis | May 19, 2023
IT AIN’T OVER – Review
It doesn’t get any more delightful than the surprising, warm documentary about beloved baseball legend Yogi Berra, IT...
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Cate Marquis | February 10, 2023
TURN EVERY PAGE – Review
What a delightful documentary is TURN EVERY PAGE – THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB. This...
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Jim Batts | September 21, 2022
SIDNEY – Review
With each passing year, the stars and filmmakers that were part of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” depart, often to,...
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Cate Marquis | August 12, 2022
GABBY GIFFORDS WON’T BACK DOWN – Review
GABBY GIFFORDS WON’T BACK DOWN is an uplifting, inspiring documentary about a woman who truly knows what it...
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Cate Marquis | July 29, 2022
FIRE OF LOVE – Review
Volcanoes and love often paired in romantic imagery but FIRE OF LOVE documents a real case of volcanic...
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Cate Marquis | July 29, 2022
HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG – Review
The new documentary HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG is a double biography of sorts, of beloved...
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Mark Glass | March 30, 2022
“Inventions That Changed History” – TV Series Review
Despite the aura of gravitas implied by its title, “Inventions That Changed History” is a six-part documentary series...
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Cate Marquis | March 25, 2022
WRITING WITH FIRE – Review
WRITING WITH FIRE, a nominee for this year’s Best Documentary Oscar, is about India’s only women-run newspaper, a...
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Cate Marquis | March 12, 2022
THE AUTOMAT – SLJFF Review
Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Colin Powell, Carl Reiner and Elliot Gould were all fans of the Automat,...
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Cate Marquis | March 12, 2022
THE CONDUCTOR – SLJFF Review
Joyful is a good word for Bernadette Wegenstein’s delightful, inspiring biographical documentary THE CONDUCTOR, about Marin Alsop, the...
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Cate Marquis | March 5, 2022
True/False documentary film fest is Mar. 3-6 in Columbia MO
The True/False documentary film festival, March 3-6, is one of the country’s best documentary film festivals, that annually...