I?m Totally Fine is the latest film to take a stab at using sci-fi ideas on an indie budget in ways that show that a herculean CGI effort isn?t required. Starring Jillian Bell, Natalie Morales and Kyle Newacheck (who all serve as executive producers on the movie), it becomes clear that the film comes from…
I felt the need to make a review of Navalny because it is one of the most recent examples of documentary filmmaking that requires our attention today. Alexandre Navalny is the leader of the Russian opposition part who since 2017 has tried to make Russia and the world aware of the blatant corruption of Putin?s…
There’s a reason that this film the won Golden Lion. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed combines the beauty found in the photography of the documentary’s main subject, Nan Goldin, with the tragedy that she encountered in her life. The film is presented in two cross-cutting parts which compares and contrasts the two parts of…
Hunt is the directorial debut of actor Lee Jung-jae, the star of Netflix?s #1 show Squid Game. The film sees Lee take a stab at being a jack of all trades as the star, director, writer, and producer of this spy-action-thriller. Set in early 1980s Korea, the film reveals a country that is locked into…
Caution: Content reveals some potential spoilers from Bones and All. Bones and All is an absurd mash up of many familiar genres including the period piece, coming of age, romance, and road trip movies. The result is a film which asks us how we connect as sinful and messed up people. The film begins with…
Category: Woman documents the long history of demeaning sex checks and now testosterone level tests that have put labels on female athletes with naturally high androgen levels. Like A Common Goal, it uses the sport of track to look at the athletes who have been diminished and questioned because of the unique abilities that help…
A Common Goal is a documentary film following the Arab players on the Israel National Football team. The film, like the others premiering at the Canadian Sport Film Festival, uses the fame and excitement of sport to analyze the deeper systematic issues they highlight. For A Common Goal, this involves looking at Israel?s history of…
Bardo (or, “I?m going to make it clear to the world I?m an artist”) is the first film from Alejandro Gonzalez I??rritu since 2015?s The Revenant and is certainly his most bombastic work to date.? Here, I??rritu leaves it all on the table in this contemporary autobiographical, nostalgia trip where Silvio, a renowned documentary filmmaker,…
Waterman tells the story of Duke Kahanamoku, a man most of us probably don?t know but who we should. The documentary uses their limited amount of footage and well executed recreations of surfing and swimming events to illustrate how amazing Duke was at both. A five-time Olympic medalist and native Hawaiian, Duke became the best…
Raise the Bar is not an easy film. It challenges you as the viewer the same way the girls in the film are challenged. In turn the girls also challenge the status quo that aims to hold them back from pursuing equality in basketball and in life. The film follows an Icelandic basketball team of…
