Tag: Documentary
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Secret Mall Apartment
If you remember the days of the 24 hour Overnight Challenge on YouTube, Secret Mall Apartment will tickle your nostalgia receptors.
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Evil in the Home of an Influencer
The Franke kids seemingly lived a normal life, until their mom met the infamous Jodi Hilderbrandt.
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Gods of Mexico, an Artistic Triumph that Eschews Narrative
The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.
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‘The Princess’: How One Woman’s Compassion Changed the World
Unlike other documentaries about Princess Diana, Perkins’ film, ‘The Princess’, is an entire documentary consisting of media coverage and public opinion, rather than a typical series of people interviewed with firsthand experience of the Princess. ‘The Princess’ beautifully depicts how we perceive Diana as a media figure rather than a real person, specifically creating her…
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Riding the Wave of Transness – ‘Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story’ Review
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes… It’s All Been Heard Before
The film basically says she was a lost cause from the start. We don’t get a sense of who Marilyn was.
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Chasing Waves and Courage in Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable
A documentary film about a disabled female athlete who builds courage within herself and seeks faith.
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All Hail The Queen of Basketball, May She Reign in Peace…and Win An Oscar
In less than 30 minutes, Proudfoot guides the viewer through a narrative that touches on American history, mind-health issues, race, and gender politics
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Women can have it all! Right?! A review of HBOMax’s “Expecting Amy”
I didn’t love Expecting Amy, the mini-series following Amy Schumer’s pregnancy, but it brought up a lot of great unspoken side-effects of working and growing a human in America.
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Remember Your Truth in a City of Façades: “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”
‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ is part fiction, part documentary. Jimmie longs for the old Victorian home that he grew up in — the house that his grandfather built. However, this home is now in an overpriced, White, San Francisco neighborhood.