documentary

Pardon Our Pixie Dust

By Alan Ng | June 2018

I’m one of the Film Threat’s resident Disney fans. I went to Disney films starting as a very small child. My annual…

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I’m one of the Film Threat’s resident Disney fans. I went to Disney films starting as a very small child. My annual trip of my youth to Disneyland...

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film image — Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
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Letterpress printing is a process in which a number of identical copies of a letter or poster can be copied over and over again from a printing press. The...

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Purdah is defined as “...the custom in certain Muslim communities of keeping women in seclusion, with clothing that conceals them completely, in order to...

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So, I guess food docs are a bona fide genre now. I’ve seen a lot of food docs this year and it makes it that much harder for a single film to stand out...

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Throughout human history, there are those — driven by profit, madness, divine provenance, or a proclivity to exert control over others — who have...

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If there is any place able to top the haven of a movie theater for a film lover it’s, without question, the drive-in. Alexander Monelli’s simple and...

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The ocean is the birthplace of life, and it’s still the wellspring from which all of life is drawn. Because the ocean is mostly invisible to humanity,...

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Points always go to unique, original ideas and new approaches to specific genres. Bart Layton’s American Animals takes the docudrama and heavily blurs...

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I’m going to admit upfront that I’m a lot biased about the film in this review. I didn’t walk in with the bias. Films generally succeed if it...

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The first thing to know about Korey Rowe, the director of the documentary Mile Marker, is that he’s one of the producers of Loose Change. Yes, the movie...

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