Documentary
Sundance 2019 Review: ‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Showcases Revolutionary TV Journalist
Matt Marshall reviews 'Mike Wallace Is Here,' a documentary about the 60 Minutes journalist, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance 2019: “Love, Antosha” Review
Sundance 2019: “Love, Antosha” Review Love, Antosha is a documentary covering the life and career of the late Anton Yelchin, an incredibly talented, young actor. Using footage from home vi...
Sundance 2019: Knock Down The House Movie Review – Ocasi-Oh Yeah!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a landmark victory for a New York congress seat in November. Luckily filmmaker Rachel Lears was following her since she announced her candidacy. She also followed three ot...
Sundance 2019: Franchise Fred Remembers Memory: The Origins of Alien
Alien is not only one of the most studied films in cinema history, it is also a franchise that is still continuing with new entries. So Franchise Fred is pretty well versed on the original Alien, but ...
Review: ‘Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki’ Glimpses Anime Auteur’s Unretirement
Matt Marshall reviews GKIDS documentary, 'Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki,' highlighting the past few years of the acclaimed anime auteur.
I Am Paul Walker Movie Review: The Fast And The Eulogous
I always enjoyed interviewing Paul Walker. It got a tad more personal when I covered Hours in the last year of his life, between SXSW and its theatrical release. I won’t pretend I knew him well, and h...
AFI Fest Review – Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes – Roger and Us
The only people who will see a documentary about Fox News are probably already not fans of Fox News. Perhaps we are looking for answers so we have a way to combat disinformation, but there really isn’...
Valley Film Festival Review: Not Your Skin
I saw Ester Brym’s first film, Butterflies, at the Valley Film Festival when I covered the local beat for Patch North Hollywood. The Patch assignment dried up but Brym still makes movies and I’ve seen...
6 Reasons Why ‘Free Solo’ Is The Best Thriller Of 2018
There has been a lot of talk about not only the quality of many documentaries in 2018 but their relative success at the box office. Films such as Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Three Identical Strangers...