Fighting the Death Wind—a review of A Life on Our Planet Sir David Attenborough Sir David Attenborough is one of three people, along with the Queen and Vin Scully, who have provided markers of stability throughout my life. All three have been there since before I hit puberty, and it brings me a sense of …
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics Director and writer: Donick Cary Nick Offerman, Sting, ASAP Rocky, Bill Kreutzmann, Rosie Perez, Reggie Watts, Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennonm, Brett Gelman, Will Forte, David Cross, Carrie Fisher, Natasha Lyonne, Anthony Bourdain, Donovan, Lewis Black, Sarah Silverman, Ben Stiller and more. This Netflix documentary, earnest but leavened …
Planet of the Humans Directed By: Jeff Gibbs Written By: Jeff Gibbs On Disc/Streaming: free until 5/20/20 on YouTube Studio: Rumble Media The thing about Michael Moore’s brand of documentary-making is that he has a contrarian nature, and he’s going to say something in fairly short order that you won’t enjoy hearing. This was evident …
Shanghai vs Dayton: a review of American Factory Produced by Higher Ground Directed by Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert Cast Junming ‘Jimmy’ Wang… Vice President, Fuyao Sherrod Brown… U.S. Senator, Ohio Dave Burrows… Vice President, Fuyao Glass America John Gauthier… President, Fuyao Glass America Rob Haerr… Furnace Supervisor Cynthia Harper… Lamination Specialist Wong He… Furnace …
Director: Alex Burunova Writers: Julia Yorks (Writer), Meggy Garol (additional writer) Stars: Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki, Kôzô Morishita, Tania Nolan | Netflix With Enter the Anime director/presenter Alex Burunova bit off more than she could chew. And by the end of the all-too-brief hour, she admits as such. It’s not that she didn’t try. She …
Do You Trust This Computer? Directed by Chris Paine Produced by Tiffany Asakawa & Jessie Deeter Written by Mark Monroe Production company: Papercut Films The instant you saw the title of this piece, I’ll bet you paused, at least for an instant, and looked at your screen as a part of a computer, and not …
Crime + Punishment 2018, Hulu Original. Produced and directed by Stephen Maing 1:52:00 Police corruption is pernicious and pervasive, a bigger threat to the public then all the terrorists in the world, and all the nuts with guns. People tend to think of police corruption in terms of “cops on the take.” Officer Krupke pops …