The heyday of TV journalism wields many iconic figures behind the camera. Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Barbara Walters, the list could be quite extensive. Going into Mike Wallace is Here, a new docume…
‘The Brink’ Review: Steve Bannon Gets a Reckoning of His Own Making | Sundance 2019
For one year, director Alison Klayman (whose last Sundance film was the wonderful 2012 documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) followed the work and life of far-right political activist and former Trump a…
Movie Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
Michael Moore is angry again. Very angry. And it’s about time. All of his best work stems from the fire that burns inside of him, the drive for honest change. In the opening sequence of his latest doc…
Movie Review: ‘Tea With the Dames’ is utterly delightful
Simply put, Tea With the Dames (that’s Nothing Like a Dame to our friends across the pond) is utterly delightful. Director Roger Mitchell’s (Notting Hill, Le Week-End) spirited eavesdropping session w…
Jane Fonda in Five Acts Review: An Expose of a Legend’s Liberation
A tape recorder clicks on, playing the growling voice of former President Richard Nixon. He’s talking about the Vietnam war and actress Jane Fonda, specifically. He praises her father, actor Hen…
McQueen Movie Review: A Troubled Life Bathed in Beauty
British designer Alexander McQueen was an ordinary man who made extraordinary clothes. Or at least that’s the main takeway of Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary McQueen. The stor…
Generation Wealth Movie Review: Lauren Greenfield has Created a Culmination of Her Career Thus Far
Over the past couple of decades, photo-essayist Lauren Greenfield (kids + money, The Queen of Versailles) has sought out lives filled with glamor and extravagance, striving to capture how our percepti…