After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
Sundance Film Festival Review: With A Cell Phone, A Gun, And Rescue Plans, “Sabaya” Is One Of The Best Documentaries I’ve Ever Seen
“Sabaya” follows a group into Syria’s Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.
Sundance Film Festival Review: “John And The Hole” Is An Ambitiously Original Psychological Thriller
A coming-of-age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground.
Sundance Film Festival Review: A Criminally Overlooked Festival Gets Its Proper Due In Compelling Documentary “Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place 100 miles away. More than 300,000 people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. It was filmed, but after that summer, the footage sat in a basement for 50 years. It has never been seen. Until …
NY African Diaspora International Film Festival Review: A Talented Kid From Memphis Inspires The World Through Street Dance In “Lil’ Buck: Real Swan”
Dancer Lil’ Buck grew up jookin and bucking on the streets of Memphis. After a breathtaking video of him dancing to Camille Saint-Saëns’ “The Swan,” accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma went viral, everything changed.
New York African Film Festival Review: “Shoot The Messenger” Is A Powerful Film About Race, Self-Hatred, And Forgiveness
“Shoot the Messenger” follows one man’s painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way, he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.
DOC NYC Movie Review: “Shut Up Sona” Is The Perfect Film To Help You Unleash Your Inner Rebel
“Shut up Sona” is a tongue-in-cheek take at a feisty female singer’s unrelenting fight for equal space in modern-day India, a country deeply uncomfortable with her emancipation.
DOC NYC Movie Review: We Need More Films Like “The Walrus And The Whistleblower” That Exposes Horrible Animal Abuse In Theme Parks
An animal trainer becomes an unlikely whistleblower and is sued for $1.5 million for plotting to steal a walrus, falling down the rabbit hole of a personal quest while a larger movement grows to end marine mammal captivity.
DOC NYC Movie Review: “Lift Like A Girl” Is The Ultimate Female Empowerment, Proving Young Women Can Do Anything
From a scrappy, vacant-lot training site in Alexandria, Egypt, to the Olympic Games, 14-year-old Zebiba stands at the precipice between childhood and weightlifting champion – guided only by her dedicated yet relentless coach, Captain Ramadan, and her own competitive edge. Can she make the leap?