Documentary filmmaker Jay Shapiro spent several years in Uganda following an inspiring Little League baseball team and making a nonfiction movie about it. The story has been chronicled on NPR, and ABC aired a short version of the film in 2012, but th …Read more
In The Circle, director Stefan Haupt tells the story of the title magazine: a gay publication created after WWII, which also became a social club for its subscribers. Two of them being schoolteacher Ernst Ostertag and drag performer Röbi Rapp, who fe …Read more
The Yes Men Are Revolting is the third charming installment in a trilogy of films about, and in-part directed by, activist pranksters The Yes Men. This time around, the film explores two main themes: global warming and Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum …Read more
Reproductive rights exist at a strange nexus of politics and public health; whether or not they should is another issue, but it’s currently hard to address the issue without considering the political implications. Vessel takes this tension to the int …Read more
Florence, Arizona is a gently observed documentary that lets its larger themes develop organically through listening to the diverse residents of its namesake town. Florence is notable for its enormous prison population, which makes up a rarely seen, …Read more
Sex and Broadcasting is a loving homage to oddball New Jersey radio station WFMU. In a world of corporatized Top 40 radio, WFMU is a refuge for the weird and unexpected, where listeners might find anything from songs played on drinking glasses, to po …Read more
Still Dreaming celebrates the timelessness of art with a cast whose time is limited. The documentary chronicles the attempts of two young Broadway directors to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a nursing home. But it’s not just any n …Read more
The midterm elections on November 4, 2014 marked history when 60% of voters in Washington State passed Initiative 594, a measure that requires background criminal checks on all firearm sales and transfers in the state, including those sold at gun sho …Read more
In The Homesman, Hilary Swank plays Mary Bee Cuddy, a middle-aged spinster living by herself in the Nebraskan farm she owns. Despite her land ownership and relative wealth, no man in the region will marry her on account of her poor looks and bossines …Read more
A Murder in the Park depicts a terrible miscarriage of justice at the point where politics, law enforcement, and the media intersect. If the filmmakers convincing argument is true, a killer is once again walking the streets of Chicago while in his pl …Read more
