Imagine what it would feel like to discover that you’re the doppelganger of the leader of the free world? That’s precisely what happened to Bronx resident Louis Ortiz one day when he shaved his beard and saw Barack Obama looking back at him in the mi …Read more

It all comes down to one image: a map of the Gulf of Mexico. The enormity of the sea is evidenced by tiny red dots showing areas of deep water drilling scattered all along the coast and outward, like little sprinkles spilling onto the floor of an ice …Read more

Filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny have amassed two of the most impressive non-fiction filmographies in recent years. Kauffman won the Academy Award in 2004 for his harrowing Born Into Brothels about the children of prostitutes in Calcutta, w …Read more

Flying all over the world to deal with unfolding human rights crises, Human Rights Watch’s E-TEAM (Emergency Team) are essentially real life superheroes, and now they’re also the center of a documentary film by Oscar-winner Ross Kauffman and Emmy-win …Read more

Stonehearst Asylum, directed by Brad Anderson and written by Joe Gangemi, is adapted from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” about patients in an insane asylum who overthrow and imprison the hospital staff …Read more

When a coordinated avalanche at a ski resort seems to spiral out of control, a family’s survival instinct kicks in. Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli), the family’s matriarch, rushes to her children and protects them from potential harm. When the snow particl …Read more

There’s a chill in the air this time of year––the kind that makes you hurry inside your house when it’s dark out, or sleep with the lights on. As Halloween approaches, you’ll want to have your lineup of scary movies handy for cool autumn nights at ho …Read more

Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe switches up gender roles in his film 1,000 Times Goodnight. In yet another striking and powerful performance, Juliette Binoche stars as Rebecca Thomas, a highly respected war photographer who, after a near-death car bom …Read more

Although it’s set in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Camp X-Ray is unlike any post-9/11 film you’ve seen. Instead of focusing on the thrills of combat, the horrors of torture or the myriad issues associated with this infamous military base, it’s a hum …Read more

Genocide. Few would argue that its prevention is not a moral imperative, yet it is so sickening and unknowable, that many would rather ignore it than face it head on. Genocide and this inherent tension form the subject of a devastating new documentar …Read more