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Ava DuVernay tackles an unjust prison system in new 13th trailer

Posted 10 years ago

The key to a good documentary is simple: take something people don’t know much about and shed light on it. The new documentary, 13TH, by Ava DuVernay does just that by focusing on the incarceration system, and how many young...

Brad Pitt narrates first trailer for Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time

Posted 10 years ago

Earlier this week we brought you a poster for Terrence Malick's VOYAGE OF TIME, and now the first trailer has been released for the documentary. The film, which Malick has been working on for almost four decades, will chronicle “the...

Review: Tickled

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A New Zealand journalist uncovers a strange series of videos involving young men tickling each other. When he decides to cover it as a story, he learns that there is something nefarious, and those behind it will do everything in their...

Review: Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The true story of childhood friends Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb, the trio behind the now famous shot-for-shot RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK remake they made as teens growing up in the eighties. Twenty-five years after their...

Tickled trailer carries with it a very Catfish vibe

Posted 10 years ago

Some of the more fascinating docs we've seen in the last few years were projects that started off as something else and veered into unexpected and mysterious territory that then compelled us as viewers to watch. CATFISH is the biggest one...

Review: Elstree 1976

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The making of STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE is told from the perspective of bit players and extras from the film, who, while not major characters, have still managed to gain some notoriety in the years since. REVIEW: What...

Clip from Spike Lee’s new Michael Jackson doc gets Off The Wall

Posted 10 years ago

Enter into a conversation about the life and career of the late Michael Jackson, and you'll find that there is one period of both that is often left out or overlooked in your chat. People will bring up the Thriller...

TV Review: Making a Murderer

Posted 10 years ago

Plot: Filmed over a 10-year period, Making a Murderer is an unprecedented real-life thriller about a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime....

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Amy, Fear the Walking Dead, Zoo

Posted 10 years ago

This Week: Fading to black with Amy, how the Dead started Walking, and the animals have had enough of our crap. ► Asif Kapadia’s heartbreaking documentary AMY (already available in Canada, for some reason) traces the rise and brutal fall...

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