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Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe Review – Dialing Up Nostalgia

by Jason Gorber
September 18, 2023
Reviews/TIFF

Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe offers a relatively superficial celebration of the beloved children's TV icon.

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30 for 30: A Brief History of Hot Docs Highlights

by Marc Glassman Barri Cohen Pat Mullen
April 27, 2023
Features/Hot Docs/Lists

The POV team marks 30 years of Hot Docs by looking back at some of the many names and documentaries that defined the festival.

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Mr. Dressup Set to Receive Documentary Treatment

by Pat Mullen
September 29, 2022
Industry

Mr. Dressup documentary announced as Prime Video begins production on a new film about the beloved Canadian children's TV icon.

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Roadrunner Review: Anthony Bourdain Doc Delivers a Signature Dish

by Pat Mullen
July 13, 2021
Reviews

Cooking can be wonderful therapy. Few people grasped this sentiment quite like Anthony Bourdain did. Yet, tragically, food and cooking couldn’t save Bourdain, whose death by suicide in 2018 shocked the world

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Will Win/Should Win: POV Predicts the Oscar Doc Race

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
February 20, 2019
Features

The documentary branch of the Academy is responsible for some of the looniest, most incomprehensible, and least defensible snubs in recent years. However, they also deserve credit for their consistent effort to

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The Top 10 Documentaries of 2018

by Pat Mullen
December 27, 2018
Features/Lists

Call 2018 the year of the documentary. One story for docs this year was their incredible box office success with four non-fiction films cracking the $10 million mark. Those films, Won’t You Be

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Review: ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’

by Pat Mullen
June 4, 2018
Reviews

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? asks audiences to consider the world they wish to create for others. The film demonstrates the positive impacts of compassion and tolerance as Rogers’ folksy show resonates

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EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Neville Talks ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’

by Jason Gorber
April 28, 2018
Hot Docs/Interviews

"I started my career as a journalist and I still think what I’m doing is a form of journalism. I think it’s a career of asking questions and a career of curiosity,"

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Summing Up Sundance

by Jason Gorber
February 1, 2018
Sundance

Every year in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival kicks off the documentary season, with many of the season’s best new works. Even more so than their fiction film cousins, the

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