For the Love of Rutland is a powerful observation of the divisions in Trump-era America, but ultimately a hopeful study of a community hungry for change.
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Slay the Dragon (USA, 104 min.) Dir. Barak Goodman, Chad Durrance The numbers for contemporary democracy don’t add up. Too often one looks at election results and sees the seat counts favour
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Where’s My Roy Cohn? (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Matt Tyrnauer “Roy was an evil produced by certain parts of the American culture,” says interviewee Anne Koiphe at the end of Where’s My Roy
Keep ReadingThe River and the Wall (USA, 109 min.) Dir. Ben Masters The list of stupid things Donald Trump has said or done is too vast to remember. However, if one formed them into bricks,
Keep ReadingWatergate (USA, 260 min.) Dir. Charles Ferguson “Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself,”
Keep ReadingThe Infiltrators (USA, 94 minutes) Dir. Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra Programme: Docx (International Premiere) One of the last films to screen at Hot Docs 2019, The Infiltrators is both as timely as Donald Trump’s
Keep ReadingThe Corporate Coup d’État (Canada, 90 minutes) Dir. Fred Peabody Programme: Special Presentations (Canadian Premiere) The Corporate Coup d’État isn’t a horror doc, but it methodically builds a sense of impending doom. Its
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You see him everywhere, a large sneering bully of a man. He’s the Donald, the #potus—really, is that so much quicker to say than President?—the orange skinned asshole with the trophy wife
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Is there any hope left for the American dream? The prospects for the land of the free look pretty dire in the outstanding American Factory. The doc offers an immersive and penetrating
Keep ReadingThe Brink (USA, 91 min.) Dir. Alison Klayman Should documentarians make movies about ultra-conservative toxic scumbags like Steve Bannon? The answer, after watching Alison Klayman’s The Brink, is, unfortunately, “Yes.” The Brink is the latest
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