Blogcritics interviews Michael John Warren, director of 'Hillsong: Let Hope Rise.'
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Movie Review: ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years’ by Ron Howard
This vast narrative collage comprises an artful group biography and an account of an unprecedented phenomenon that has never recurred, and seems unlikely, in today's splintered culture, ever to do so.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘East L.A. Interchange’ – A Documentary
Does a documentary film about the Hispanic community of Boyle Heights shy away from tackling the major issue of the day?
Read More »Filmmaker Interview: Gillian Armstrong, Director of ‘Women He’s Undressed’
Director Gillian Armstrong discusses her new documentary about the legendary Hollywood costume designer and gives her opinion about the state of the film industry today.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise’
"Lee Scratch Perry's Vision of Paradise" is the perfect vehicle for capturing the larger than life Lee Scratch Perry on film.
Read More »San Antonio Film Festival Interview: Robert L. Camina, Director of ‘Upstairs Inferno’
Robert L. Camina discusses the making of his documentary that screened at last week's San Antonio Film Festival.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Three Short Film Jewels About Dreams, Trauma, and Mules
Three short films that each shed light on what it means to be an individual and how we experience the world.
Read More »Seattle International Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Ants on a Shrimp’
Have you traveled to award winning restaurant NOMA in Japan to have their roast duck or ants on a shrimp?
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Police are Coming to Take Your Stuff and Kill Your Dog
Seized', winner of Anthem’s Best Short Documentary award, explores a police practice called civil asset forfeiture. 'Of Dogs and Men', winner of Best Libertarian Documentary Feature tries to explain why 10,000 pet dogs are killed by police every year.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: ‘Deep Web’ Explores Silk Road, Looking for the Dread Pirate Roberts
Before seeing 'Deep Web', like most people, I believed Silk Road was a criminal enterprise -- a gigantic drug network and online cartel run by a drug lord known as the "Dread Pirate Roberts." It turns out that this was a highly distorted picture.
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