Giving you our points of view on the latest docs in release and on the circuit.
Lance Oppenheim’s Some Kind of Heaven opens the doors of the idyllic retirement community The Villages where happily-ever-after doesn’t come as easily as some retirees expect.
On one hand, Pretend It’s a City is an engaging portrait of Fran Lebowitz, but on the other, it’s an essential time capsule of pre-COVID city life. I haven’t laughed so heartily and consistently since 2019.
In unravelling the complicated political ball of yarn that surrounded Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Bryan Fogel ensures one walks away aware of who was truly pulling the deadly strings.
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is a specific yet universal tale that excels amid a sea of formulaic contemporaries, delivering a poignant, profound examination of some of the most enduring songs from the era.
Four chefs adapt to survive COVID-19’s impact on the hospitality business in Guy Fieri doc Restaurant Hustle: All on the Line
The End of Certainties would be especially valuable for educational purposes, finding its place in curricula on the topic of globalization. Ultimately the film leaves you wondering what these people would be saying in light of all that has happened this year, in our increasingly “uncertain times.”
In Kim O'bomsawin's Call Me Human, Innu artist Joséphine Bacon says, "“I don’t think we needed the word ‘poetry’ or ‘poem’ in our language, because we were poets, simply by living in harmony with the land.”
In As the Crow Flies, director Tess Girard captures a visually stunning journey through the clouds piloted by a group of young recruits of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, many not yet 18, as they grapple with being simultaneously placed in the pilot seat of their lives and a massive machine.
Lennon’s Last Interview (UK, 65 min.) Dir. Brian Grant December 8, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. His murder, a first among rock icons, devastated a generation of fans who saw Lennon and the Beatles change the way that people made and imagined music. The sudden and senseless act meant an ironically violent end for a man who used his platform as an advocate for peace. Before the tragic ending to Lennon’s story, however, he synthesized many of his highs, lows, viewpoints, and contradictions in an expansive interview with Andy Peebles, a radio DJ with the BBC.
2020 has delivered its fair of crazy stories. However, no doc this year quite has a jaw-on-the-floor ick factor like Baby God does. This true crime/#MeToo investigation is further proof that truth is often stranger than fiction.
