Greetings from Queertown: Orlando
A peek into Orlando’s Gay scene reveals and exciting and vibrant community. Carl F. Gauze reviews Greetings from Queertown: Orlando, presented at the 2023 Florida Film Festival.
A peek into Orlando’s Gay scene reveals and exciting and vibrant community. Carl F. Gauze reviews Greetings from Queertown: Orlando, presented at the 2023 Florida Film Festival.
The fact that the band Slaves to Sirens exists is impressive, but that they live, love, and breathe to play metal takes things to another level. Sirens documents the journey. Review by Charles DJ Deppner.
The uneasy ethics in Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Documentaries presented at the 30th Florida Film Festival, Maitland, Florida.
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.
Long-awaited documentary on groundbreaking punk/emo band Jawbreaker.
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.”
Iconic store, label, & genre-maker, Wax Trax!, celebrates with a new documentary & accompanying soundtrack!
Generoso speaks with director, Talal Derki, about his Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominated film, Of Fathers and Sons.
We visit a garden in Israel tended by adherents of the Baha’i Faith in this stunning documentary.
A brief and relatively neutral history of the famous 1967 “Bigfoot” home movies.
Groundbreaking all women reggae-infused punk group the Slits finally get the documentary treatment.
A documentary about the legendary chart topping band, that tries to cram a lot of history into a short running time.
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.
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.
Living in the circus ring is hard enough, but when your dad is your coach and clowning partner, the emotional pratfalls devastate.
An early documentary by Robert Mugge explores the world of Avant Garde composer George Crumb.
Meet the minor and only vaguely famous actors from the original Star Wars movie.
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.
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.
Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Christopher Lee presides over sex and torture in Jess Franco’s exploitation gem, Night of the Blood Monster now in 4K!
An idyllic campground filled with interesting people faces destruction in Happy Campers, part of the 2024 Florida Film Festival, an Oscar®-qualifying festival now in its 33rd year.
An American success story of rum and sex and hula dancing. The Donn of Tiki was part of the 2024 Florida Film Festival, an Oscar®-qualifying festival now in its 33rd year.
An all-animal department store caters to the high-end clientele in this superb Japanese cartoon. The Concierge was part of the 2024 Florida Film Festival, an Oscar®-qualifying festival now in its 33rd year.
John Cleese is this year’s celebrity at the Florida Film Festival, and Monty Python’s Holy Grail its featured film. This event was part of the 2024 Florida Film Festival, an Oscar®-qualifying festival now in its 33rd year.
Today’s Smmoth Jazz Roundup is a collection of short reviews of easy-to-listen-to jazz.