Tag: documentary films
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Look into My Eyes review, step inside the world of psychics
Look into My Eyes, from documentary director Lana Wilson, takes us on a visit to seven New York City psychics and the people who come to them for help. There’s no judgement in the film as to whether the people offering psychic services are “real” or not. Instead we get an empathetic look into their…
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Martha review: the Martha Stewart documentary
Martha was a well-done documentary about the long and varied life of “the original influencer” Martha Stewart.
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Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara – when fandom gets toxic
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara tells a horrible and unresolved story about 15 years of catfishing carried out by a fan or fans of Tegan and Sara. It is fandom gone toxic and hurt many people, including Tegan who was the main target.
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Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined, a PBS documentary
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined comes from the PBS series American Masters. It explores many years of the Dominican American writer’s career. It isn’t a complete look at all her work, but does tell a lot of her story. Alvarez is one of the few Latina writers telling stories about the life and times of…
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Girls State, Missouri program gets a documentary look
Girls State follows many of the high school girls who attended a week long program for girls in leadership roles in the state of Missouri. This was an interesting year to document the program, because for the first time in Missouri Boys State and Girls State were on the same university campus during the same…
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How Do You Measure a Year? short doc about growing up
How Do You Measure a Year? from director and father Jay Rosenblatt captures 16 years of growth in a short documentary. Rosenblatt interviewed his daughter Ella every year on her birthday. This film is the result.
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Being Mary Tyler Moore, an influencer before the term was a thing
Being Mary Tyler Moore, a documentary from director James Adolphus, is less about Mary Tyler Moore as a person and more about her influence on culture and feminism.
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the icon’s own story
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, from director Lana Wilson, takes a look at Brooke Shields life and career from her point of view now as a woman in her 50s who has survived as a famous icon for her entire life.
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, let it blow your mind
From writer and director Nina Menkes, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power explains how the politics of shot design on our screens affects sexual assault and employment discrimination against women. The documentary uses over 175 film clips to make its point.
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Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over
If you’re a certain age (like me), you can sing along with every Dionne Warwick song because you know all the lyrics by heart. In Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, the lady herself leads a retrospective look back at her career.