S Categories Features Festivals Movies SXSW 2023 March 23, 2023 SXSW 2023: You Can Call Me Bill, Hung Up on A Dream, Going Varsity in Mariachi, & Angel Applicant A quartet of docs investigate how art affects its creators and its audience.
I Categories Reviews TV March 16, 2023 In Swarm, Donald Glover and Janine Nabers give stinging commentary While it may not be everyone’s cup of Lemonade, Swarm gives plenty of thrills and a fantastic performance by Dominique Fishback.
A Categories Features TV March 3, 2023 A study of adaptation: Daisy Jones & The Six Exploring how Prime Video's band on the run drama captures and strays from the novel's charms.
D Categories Reviews TV March 1, 2023 Daisy Jones & The Six is sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll like you remember Prime Video’s traditional take on “the biggest rock band in the world’s” rise and fall succeeds on the back of strong performances.
M Categories Movies Reviews September 16, 2022 Moonage Daydream hits a cinematic high note reflecting the mind of David Bowie The unforgettable musician is the centerpiece of an appropriately maximalist documentary.
T Categories Movies Reviews October 14, 2021 The Velvet Underground gets the trippy, immersive treatment it deserves Todd Haynes directs a dazzling documentary about the seminal 60s art-rock band.
M Categories Movies Reviews October 10, 2021 Madonna concert doc Madame X flirts with political provocation The queen of pop serves up a filmed version of her controversial 2020 tour, one as lush in style as it is thin in substance.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 26, 2021 Reeling 2021: Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music is as enthralling as it is expansive Invisible, T.J. Parsell's documentary about queer women and the country music they make, gives its subjects a space to shine.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 September 14, 2021 TIFF 2021: Jagged tells you everything you oughta know about Alanis Morrissette Alison Klayman's chronicle of the Canadian singer's rise to fame centers around her seminal 1995 album, and the trail it blazed for female artists.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 11, 2021 TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
