Nonfics

Sundance 2015: The Visit is an Inconsistent Documentary of Our First Contact With an Alien

Sundance Film FestivalThe Visit introduces itself via title card as “a simulation.” While its central scenario is fake, all of the… Read More

Slamdance 2015: Batkid Begins is Obviously Adorable and Heartwarming From Start to Finish

KTF FilmsKurt Kuenne’s best-known film is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, which is famous for… Read More

Sundance 2015: College Rape Doc The Hunting Ground Has Value But is Artistically Displeasing

Sundance Film FestivalA quarter of all women who attend an American institution of higher learning will be sexually assaulted. An infuriatingly… Read More

Sundance 2015: Finders Keepers Maintains a Brilliant Balance of Comedy and Tragedy

Sundance Film FestivalClay Tweel is a name that should be known to any documentary fan. After serving as an associate producer… Read More

The 14 Best Documentaries of 2014

2014 is the year documentaries began to take over. At least this seemed to be the case. The most acclaimed… Read More

• Essays

What Might Have Been Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Documentary of 2014?

What Might Have Been Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Documentary of 2014?Bond360Another year of Golden Globes nominations, another year… Read More

• Reviews

A Quidditch World Cup Player and a Spectator Review the New Documentary ‘Mudbloods’

Bond360The crunch of brooms and bones. The roar of the crowd. The occasional cry of an owl. These were the… Read More

Guide to the 8 Documentary Shorts on the 2015 Oscar Shortlist

Weary TravelerThis past weekend I was at the New Orleans Film Festival, serving as a juror for the event’s impressive… Read More

10 Essential Documentaries About Sex and Sexuality

Paradigm PicturesSex is still a taboo topic, to one degree or another, in most parts of the world. Historically, art… Read More