documentary
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This Changes Everything
We guess for Hollywood insiders Tom Donahue incisive documentary on gender inequality in the movie business is hardly big news, but for those of us outside of the circle his ‘investigation’ highlights issues that we rarely think about. Interestingly enough Donahue started the project before the formation of the whole #MeToo movement which is…
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The Sunday Sessions
Richard Yeagley’s documentary “The Sunday Sessions” makes for very tough and uncomfortable viewing. It’s not just the subject matter of gay-conversion therapy that is so abhorrent and extremely harmful, but the fact the film follows 20-something-year-old vulnerable Nathan Gniewek for a year as he tries to de-gay himself. Gniewek is a very likeable and…
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The Last Resort
Miami Beach is one of those cities that undergoes enormous transitions every single decade at a pace that is hard to keep up. In the early 50’s this sleepy seaside resort became a popular vacation destination for blue collar Jews who wanted a break from their tough lives in New York. It later morphed…
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Fyre Fraud
It is such a pity that Universal Pictures got there first as Despicable Me would be the perfect title for the new Hulu documentary on the obnoxious conman Billy McFarland the fraudster behind the Fyre Festival debacle. With two competing films just released that set out to dig out the truth behind the biggest rip-off…
