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PREVIEW - #583 - Bad Producer: Port of Call Loch Ness
The filmmaker who coined the term "ecstatic truth" becomes the subject of a memorable docu-fiction hybrid in INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS (2004), in which W…
1 year, 10 months ago
#582 - Pastor Dave for Congress (w/ Alex Shephard)
In the latest instalment of the God's Not Dead franchise, Pastor Dave answers a different kind of calling, and takes aim at the barrier between Churc…
1 year, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - #581 - The Attitude Era
We all know that WWE founder and ex-CEO Vince McMahon shared a long friendship with Donald Trump, and would you believe that the two men share some s…
1 year, 10 months ago
#580 - Memories of Murder
With the failed coup in South Korea still fresh in our memories, we looked at Bong Joon-ho's breakthrough film MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003), a procedura…
1 year, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - #579 - Slouching Towards Altamont
The story goes that the flower-power generation abruptly ended when the Rolling Stones held a free concert at the Altamont Speedway that went disastr…
1 year, 10 months ago
#578 - Final Offer
The Canadian documentary FINAL OFFER (1985) captures the contentious negotiations between General Motors and the Canadian wing of the United Auto Wor…
1 year, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - #577 - Walker's Immortals
While Nicaragua was being ravaged by Reagan, Alex Cox used Hollywood money to make a sharp satire of American imperialism. The result, WALKER (1987),…
1 year, 11 months ago
#576 - The Society of the Spectacle
With America suddenly lurching to the right on immigration, we checked to see where one prominent Democrat documentarian stood circa 2011. In CITIZEN…
1 year, 11 months ago
PREVIEW - #575 - Authentic Brands Group LLC
A rural village braces itself for development from the big city in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (2024), a beautiful movie that rhymed with…
1 year, 11 months ago
#574 - Winning is Everything, Stupid!
A month before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, CNN aired a hagiographic documentary about one of the masterminds of the last 30 years of America…
1 year, 11 months ago