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Doc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment
As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.
Despite its abrasive style, “Plainclothes” leaves no doubt about what is going to happen or what is meant to be its takeaway message.
Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”
“HIM” works incredibly well as a Grotesque, and by that I mean the film takes the incipient, creepy ideologies of pro football and blows them up to terrifying and absurd proportions.
Audiences prefer that political messages be buried under heaps of horror, but this film may be extreme enough to alert some viewers to look beneath the bloody spectacle.
The concluding chapter in the Downton Abbey saga is a classy and entertaining multileveled melodrama that features excellent production values and a script with a light touch.
This is another visit to the world of Spinal Tap. I had some good laughs, and that might be enough.
Several films in this year’s festival explore the nature of dreams and the people who are driven by them.
It’s up to us to champion films like “Boys Go to Jupiter,” which push the medium into exciting new territory when AI slop is literally banging at the door.
Considering the chaotic state the world is in, there is something to be said for this kind of film — a nice little movie that supplies a welcome pick-me-up
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