by J Hurtado, May 9, 2012 10:45 PM
A few weeks ago, the wonderful Kino Lorber launched yet another sublabel after the fantastic Redemption line. The new line, Jezebel, handles some of the sexier titles that have little to do with horror, but plenty to do with exploitation....
by Matthew Lee, May 8, 2012 8:00 AM
Jean-Charles Hue's The Lord's Ride doesn't lack for ambition. It wants us to feel part of a niche culture which society at large tends to view as outsiders, invisibles, a bit weird, and on top of that it wants us...
by Matthew Lee, May 8, 2012 6:00 AM
Adam Kossoff's Moscow Diary does most things a good documentary should. We get a complex, intellectually fascinating subject (a famous writer's trip to Russia in the 1920s, and his thoughts on the nascent Communist party) presented as objectively as circumstances...
by Kurt Halfyard, May 6, 2012 11:44 AM
An exceptionally tall girl in an orange dress with a piece of red-velvet cake on a plate and a lanky New Zealander with a video camera meet on the subway headed for Coney Island. They chat. They separate. They meet...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, May 6, 2012 11:00 AM
Since the myth of Pygmalion, men have attempted to create the 'perfect' woman. This woman is usually beautiful, with orafices ready for sex, and above all, silent. Allison de Fren, a media & film studies scholar working in the fields...
by Kurt Halfyard, May 5, 2012 11:06 AM
There is a lot of passion, soul baring, and white-knuckle anxiety on display in Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky's documentary on the world of independent games and their micro-sized design teams. Instead of hundreds of people working on all aspects of a top...
by Peter Gutierrez, May 4, 2012 11:28 AM
The temptation in the headline above is to say "Winnifred Bonjean-Alpart... the star of Sexy Baby." But aside from the fact that docs don't really have stars, she's also just one of the three subjects of Ronna Gradus and Jill...
by Peter Martin, May 2, 2012 10:00 AM
Barely more than an hour after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre, located in the Oak Cliff community of Dallas. And now, nearly 50 years...
by Jason Gorber, May 2, 2012 12:09 AM
In one of the finer examples of the synergy caused by pairing two separate films together, the programming staff at Hotdocs made a wise move of presenting an evening of all things phallus. Manhood is a short doc from some...
by Kurt Halfyard, May 1, 2012 8:38 AM
Either Mads Brügger has balls the size of grapefruits or there is mondo chicanery going on in The Ambassador. Well, it's a given that there is trickery happening, so the thing to figure out is who the trick is on: The...
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