documentary

Dennis and Lois
- Screen Reviews
- May 22, 2020
Music superfans Lois and Dennis have been attending concerts and befriending musicians since the ’70s. The couple shares their obsessive music fandom with the rest of the world in this quirky, charming documentary.
Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker
- Screen Reviews
- September 4, 2019
Long-awaited documentary on groundbreaking punk/emo band Jawbreaker.
Bachman
- Screen Reviews
- June 10, 2019
He was the creative driver of the original incarnation of The Guess Who, and the originator of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. For Canadian rock fans, he is an icon, but for American fans, he’s just “oh yeah, that guy.”
WAX TRAX! Industrial Accident
- Screen Reviews
- April 22, 2019
Iconic store, label, & genre-maker, Wax Trax!, celebrates with a new documentary & accompanying soundtrack!
Talal Derki
- Interviews
- February 4, 2019
Generoso speaks with director, Talal Derki, about his Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominated film, Of Fathers and Sons.
Poetic Trilogy: The Gardener
- Screen Reviews
- December 31, 2018
We visit a garden in Israel tended by adherents of the Baha’i Faith in this stunning documentary.
The Weirdest Movie Ever Made
- Print Reviews
- November 16, 2018
A brief and relatively neutral history of the famous 1967 “Bigfoot” home movies.

Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits
- Screen Reviews
- August 21, 2018
Groundbreaking all women reggae-infused punk group the Slits finally get the documentary treatment.
Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago
- Screen Reviews
- November 13, 2017
A documentary about the legendary chart topping band, that tries to cram a lot of history into a short running time.
Dawson City : Frozen Time
- Screen Reviews
- October 13, 2017
Dawson, North West Territory, Canada had one of the biggest gold strikes ever. Silent movies entertained the miners between gambling and drinking, but the films were later dumped into the permafrost.
The Burningmoore Deaths
- Screen Reviews
- May 8, 2017
Former Queensryche lead singer Geoff Tate stars as a father-turned-murderer who wreaks havoc on the crew of a home improvement show in an interesting mash-up of faux documentary and found footage horror movie.
Circus Kid
- Screen Reviews
- April 28, 2017
Living in the circus ring is hard enough, but when your dad is your coach and clowning partner, the emotional pratfalls devastate.
George Crumb: Voice Of The Whale
- Screen Reviews
- August 2, 2016
An early documentary by Robert Mugge explores the world of Avant Garde composer George Crumb.
Elstree 1976
- Screen Reviews
- June 29, 2016
Meet the minor and only vaguely famous actors from the original Star Wars movie.

The Babushkas of Chernobyl
- Screen Reviews
- May 20, 2016
Russian women are tough. Meet a collection of them who survived Chernobyl and then snuck back in to live out their days on their radioactive old homesteads.
The Color of Noise
- Screen Reviews
- December 14, 2015
Nearly two hour documentary focusing on Amphetamine Reptile Records, responsible for releasing some of the noisiest punk-inspired music in the ’90s, including Helmet, Melvins, and Tar.
Do I Sound Gay?
- Screen Reviews
- May 1, 2015
A man seeks the answer to the unanswerable question “Why do I talk like a girl?”
Family Jams
- Screen Reviews
- April 10, 2015
A free form New Age band loves to jam and packs up their harp, hits the road, and parties like its 2004.
Very Extremely Dangerous
- Screen Reviews
- November 19, 2014
Very Extremely Dangerous (Screen Works). Review by Scott Adams.
Circle the Wagen
- Screen Reviews
- September 15, 2014
Dave Torstenson buys a beat up VW micro bus on the internet and heads for Los Angeles, one break down at a time.

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- Screen Reviews
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