Elis and Tom is a new documentary, but it’s also the name of a landmark 1974 Bossa Nova album. You know about Bossa Nova, right? It’s that Samba beat out of Rio that makes the people dance...
A Life on the Farm, the 2022 documentary directed by Oscar Harding, illuminates a fascinating corner of outsider art through the home movies and photographs of English farmer Charles Carson. Now avail...
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd speaks to my love of documentaries about tortured geniuses. But, I still don’t like Pink Floyd. This is where people come out of the ...
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence is the three part mini-series event that dominated Hulu at the start of February 2023. Cult leader Larry Ray was living on campus in the Sarah Lawrence ...
Old Friends: A Dogumentary is a rather fun documentary about caring for aging dogs down in Tennessee. Aging dogs might not be the first that get adopted, but you can’t help but look at their fac...
Bad Axe is the kind of documentary that I expected to see a lot more during the Pandemic. Take equal parts PTSD, generational trauma and modern family dynamics and make a compelling look at America in...
This is Gwar will make you believe that art collectives and heavy metal come together to make beautiful things. Also, the documentary is pretty good. Shudder does rock documentaries now? Rock document...
The Hidden Life of Trees first hit bookstores in 2015. While I picked up and flipped through Peter Wohlleben‘s book back then, I never felt the urge to dive into it further. After watching all 8...
The Buttery Bros are back with Resurgence, their documentary about the power of being the fittest at CrossFit. Showing all the changes from before and after the Pandemic creates a sporting event that ...