David D'Arcy

Sundance Fest’s Last Winter in Utah — Docs on a Small Town Newspaper, the Attack on Salman Rushdie, and Public Access TV 

February 10, 2026
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A trio of illuminating documentaries, their topics ranging from the struggles of a local newspaper to the days of public access cable television in New York City.

Film Reviews: DOC NYC– The Fugs, Midwives, and Racial Strife in Canada

January 3, 2026
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Extensive and eclectic, DOC NYC is a sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites are worth searching out.

AT DOC NYC: A Filmmaker’s Farewell to a Friend, Flophouse Vérité, and the Fight for “Female Viagra”

December 4, 2025
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.

Film Review: Low-Budget Films Were Alive and Well at The Year’s New York Film Festival

November 23, 2025
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Three independent films got a bounce out of the New York Film Festival and could be coming to you soon.

The New York Film Festival: Gaza Photographer Resurrected on Film, Shocking Desert Rave Saga, and Jafar Panahi Returns

October 18, 2025
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Three powerful films at NYFF about violence, survival, and revenge.

Toronto Film Festival: “Nuns vs. The Vatican” — Courage, Cover-Ups, and Calls for Accountability

October 10, 2025
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“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.

Toronto International Film Festival – Putin’s Media Fixer, Ukraine “Future” Doldrums and a Korean Hijack Farce

September 27, 2025
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A trio of political films at TIFF — ranging from tragedy to farce.

Film Festival Reviews: The Toronto International Film Festival – Storks and Arctic Drama

September 22, 2025
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Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”

Book Review: A Killing with Everything But a Body – “Murder in the Dollhouse”

September 13, 2025
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There is a moral to this story, besides the obvious one, that murder is a horrible crime whether the body is found or not. If there are wealthy women with weaknesses to exploit, predators will find them.

Film Review: Killing Time with Talk — Olivier Assayas’s “Suspended Time”

August 22, 2025
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If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.

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