2022 marked another banner year for documentary cinema. They have inspired us, informed us, and taken us on unforgettable journeys. Documentarians have given us second looks at entertainers we thought we knew....
"If only I had time," I remember sighing at some point in late 2019, probably in a pub or a restaurant among a cluster of friends separated by <1 ft of space, lipstick doubtless boozily smeared across my ma...
From 1955 until his death, the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover targeted civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in an increasingly invasive surveillance program meant to destabilize the man and the movement. This f...
We're not sure exactly why the Television Academy thought it was necessary to refresh everyone's memory about its new rule regarding streaming and television eligibility for the Emmys announced this past March...
The '80s had arrived. Disco was dead, and for many, new wave synth wasn’t cutting it. People hungered for a new sound. Before hip-hop would take shape in the region, thrash metal was born in the Bay Area. If yo...
In what has become a rewarding Christmas tradition, the last couple of weeks have been spent, in between shopping, cooking, arguing, eating, boozing and crying jags, catching up on some of the non-fiction relea...
Remember when "truth is stranger than fiction" used to be a thing that boring people said to fill awkward post-anecdote gaps at dinner parties and before it became the literal truth of every waking moment livin...
…Aaand now the days are getting shorter as we've passed the midpoint of the year, meaning it's high time we brought you the last but very far from the least feature in our 2016 So Far series. We've already rega...
We’re just about midway through 2015, and that means taking stock of the cinematic year so far. In terms of feature films, it’s been a stellar year, with everything from “Inside Out” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” to...