Part documentary, part thriller, Welcome To Leith paints a fascinating portrait of a desolate little town in North Dakota, and how in 2012 a group of white supremacists attempted to convert the town into their own private settlement. Much in the same …Read more
The vast majority of Americans have some understanding of The Black Panther Party. Violence, revolution, police brutality, and racism are each in some way linked to the story of the Panthers, but these concepts alone fail to bring the movement to lif …Read more
Despite the pain and anguish relatives of the deceased will experience during a murder trial, our societal fascination with crime endures. Perhaps this is because the procedural aspects of solving a mystery are quite similar to telling a story. The n …Read more
To many, the music of The Beach Boys is a foundational boulder set in the California cliffside upon which the entire culture rests. To remove it, is to ignore one of the most integral components of life in Southern California during the 1960s. Summer …Read more
The Ford Mustang is the embodiment of traditional American values. As such, its place at the forefront of the American auto industry and popular culture has been well cemented over the last 50 years. So how do you approach the redesigning of such a b …Read more
Tackling two extremely hot-button issues simultaneously, The Hand That Feeds could have very easily become too cumbersome to support its own weight. In one corner, this New York documentary is presenting a humanizing argument about illegal immigratio …Read more
In theory, going camping in the wilderness ought be a pleasant and rewarding experience. There’s a spiritual quality in nature that connects the modern camper to a time before Twitter and microwave ovens. Thoreau and countless others have spoken abou …Read more
Joel Potrykus’s Buzzard, follows Marty (Joshua Burge), a small-time con artist living from scam to scam for income. Not shy about his anti-establishment, anti-corporate attitude, Marty neglects all responsibilities at his temp job in favor of stealin …Read more
The plot of Jonathan Scott Chinn’s directorial debut The Widowers is straightforward enough: Jake (Richard Lovejoy) is reeling from the recent passing of his wife, and his best friend signs them up for an alternative therapy group hidden deep in the …Read more
Cake follows Claire (Jennifer Aniston); a woman who, in struggling to piece her life back together after a traumatic experience, finds herself oddly obsessed with the suicide of Nina (Anna Kendrick), whom she met in her support group. Almost as …Read more
