Articles by Liam Lacey
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True or False
Have documentaries become propaganda in the age of Donald Trump and Fake News?
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Hot Docs Review: ‘Under the Same Sun’
Under the Same Sun is an oddly irresolute portrait of the Armenian-Azerbaijani ethnic conflice.
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Hot Docs Review: ‘Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open’
Oksana Karpovich’s Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open is an assured debut.
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Hot Docs Review: ‘Bulletproof’
Todd Chandler’s Bulletproof is this year’s winner of Hot Docs’ Emerging International Filmmaker Award.
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Hot Docs Review: ‘Love & Stuff’
Love & Stuff has a whiff of navel-gazing home-movie filmmaking.
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Hot Docs Review: ‘Eddy’s Kingdom’
Portrait of Eddy Haymour is an oddly chipper story about Canadian provincial government abuse and terrorism.
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From Kenya with Love and Fear
Director Sam Soko’s Softie profiles photojournalist and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi.
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Attack of the Unfinished Zombie Movies
How do we respond to “lost” films like Shirkers and The Other Side of the Wind? Make docs about them.
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Doc of Ages
Robbie Roberson and his fellow Band members made brilliant roots rock music, playing as if they were brothers. What happened?
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Review: ‘Advocate’
Advocate is a lively exercise in documentary advocacy.