Review: Meeting Gorbachev
As a Werner Herzog über-fan, I'm always excited by the opportunity to watch anything he's involved with, since he usually has a thoughtful and thought provoking view of the world.…
Quickie Review: Instant Dreams
Did you ever have a Polaroid camera or loved that instantaneous thrill of having the image appear in your hands? The Polaroid camera was a marvel and this quirky doc…
Quickie Review: The Brink
If you're a political junkie like me, you're probably very familiar with Steve Bannon and his outsized role in electing the current occupant of the White House. This new documentary…
Quickie Review: Apollo 11 (Documentary)
July 1969. I was barely two, so I don’t have any real memory of watching history unfold on television, as NASA attempted (and accomplished) its most daring mission ever: to…
Quickie Review: Minding the Gap
I'm not a big fan of the skateboarding scene and when I heard this documentary was one of the five Oscar nominees, I knew I had to watch, but I…
Review: Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019
I always look forward to watching the shorts. (Short being 40 minutes or less, so some of them aren't all that short.) This year's crop had clear winners and losers…
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Mainstream Chick’s Top Picks of 2018
It’s insanely difficult to do a “Top 10 Movies of 2018” list when you’ve seen about 200 movies in 365 days – everything from blockbusters, to arthouse films, to documentaries,…
Review: The Great Buster
The full title of this documentary is The Great Buster: A Celebration and it certainly is that. From Dick Van Dyke to Mel Brooks to Werner Herzog, silent film star…
Review: Studio 54
I was never a fan of disco, and you'd have had to drag me kicking and screaming to any club in New York when I lived there, so I was…
Review: Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
Garry Winogrand was one of the masters of street photography. He spent decades roaming New York, and later Texas and California, freezing the moments that made statements about the time…
Review: Tea With the Dames
The Dames in question are Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins, four of England best actresses and life-long friends who meet up regularly at Plowright's country home.…
Quickie Review: Free Solo (Documentary)
You slip, you fall, you die. That’s the simple truth at the heart of the sometimes meh, sometimes gripping (pun intended but also accurate) documentary Free Solo, about American rock…
Review: Hal
In the 1970s, there was a director who made an extraordinary series of socially conscious and brilliantly entertaining films. His name was Hal Ashby. From Harold and Maude to Being…
Review: Love, Gilda
I loved Gilda Radner! She's the only celebrity whose death has ever made me weep. So when I heard there was going to be a documentary about her, I was…
Review: Kusama: Infinity
This documentary was full of surprises for me. I've been an art lover for as long as I can remember, but somehow missed knowing one of the most critically acclaimed…