This timely film profiles Life After Hate, an organization founded by former skinheads and neo-Nazis that supports white nationalists seeking to break away from these radical movements.
DOC NYC Film Festival Review: “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back” Was Such A Joy To Watch Such Legendary Talent And Hear His Story
Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous, often estranged younger brother, tap dance legend Gregory Hines.
DOC NYC Film Festival Review: Finally, An Honest Discussion About Why People Cheat! Get Your Popcorn Out For “Talking About Adultery”
Love is to have, desire is to want. “Talking About Adultery” is a documentary essay about the human struggle for both. A film about what marriage means in today’s world and what is it that we all strive for.
DOC NYC Film Festival Review: A Constant Search For Love Turns Into A Journey Of Self Acceptance In “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”
In the 1980s, an Army wife-turned-glamorous party girl named Tish ruled New York City’s downtown nightlife, often out on the scene with the likes of Michael Musto. Just a few years later, after more than a decade as a woman, Tish transitioned back to being Brian. Now, in his sixties, Brian reflects on the …
DOC NYC Film Festival Review: “The Pickup Game” Exposes The Million-Dollar Pickup Artist Industry And Their Secrets And I love it!
“The Pickup Game” is an inside look at the emergence of the ‘pickup’ industry – a business where self-styled seduction coaches travel the world, charging a small fortune to teach men skills they claim will guarantee success with women.
2019 New York LGBTQ Film Festival Review: A Community Of Lesbian Women Begin Preserving Their History Through Archiving Their Stories In “The Archivettes”
Led by local heroes Deb Edel and Joan Nestle in the 1970s, a group of young lesbians, frustrated by misogyny and homophobia within academia, huddled together and built an accessible archive of lesbian documents and artifacts for those conducting research, both professional and personal. The location: a bedroom in a modest apartment on Manhattan’s …
2019 New York LGBTQ Film Festival Review: “One Taxi Ride” Is A Powerful Story That Brings Much-Needed Awareness To Male Victims Of Sexual Assault
Erick’s life changed forever when he got into a taxi. The driver and two accomplices sexually assaulted him. The then 17-year-old never went to the police, never saw a doctor and never told his family or friends. After feeling broken for 10 years, he goes on a journey to reclaim his life-changing world around …
2019 Philadelphia Film Festival Review: “The Report” Is The Antidote To The Poisonous “Zero Dark Thirty”
Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA’s post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.
2019 Philadelphia Film Festival Review: A Self-Absorbed Bartender Gets In Over His Head With The Occult In “Wounds”
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.