documentary
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The Queen of Ireland
It was always a sure bet that sooner or later the whole world would be aware of an extraordinary Irish drag queen called Panti Bliss, but it was her appearance on the stage of Dublin’s Abbey Theater delivering a ‘Noble Call’ on February 1st 2014 that instantly propelled her into the role of accidental activist and…
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Life, Animated
Roger Ross Williams’ documentary prompted by the best selling book by Ron Suskind about Owen his autistic son, is probably one of the most inspirational documentaries we will get to see this year. It tells the tale of how Suskind, a Pulitzer Award winning writer with The Wall Street Journal, and his wife Cornelia dealt with…
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Nuts
This is the mostly true story of the larger-than-life J.R. Brinkley who turned out to be one of the country’s biggest and most successful medical charlatans of the last century. Documentarian filmmaker Penny Lane= chose to tell this totally bizarre tale by mainly blending animated visuals with archival footage and using narration by different actors. She starts by…
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Tickled
David Farrier has made a successful career working as a reporter for a small TV Station in New Zealand looking at the weird and bizarre side of life. He thought he found a perfect subject for his program when he came across a website a couple of years ago from Jane O’Brien Media asking for men 18-24…
