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Taming the Garden

By Alan Ng | September 2022

NOW IN THEATERS! Do yourself a favor and find a large screen and see Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden. The story behind…

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NOW IN THEATERS! Do yourself a favor and find a large screen and see Salomé Jashi's Taming the Garden. The story behind "the garden" is pretty incredible...

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NOW ON VOD! One of the powers of a documentary is its ability to give a person and their ideas recognition. Film lives as a testament of acknowledgment to...

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NOW ON PBS! In late 2019, the coronavirus began infecting people, and rather quickly, it spread around the world and caused lockdowns in dozens of...

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MENDOCINO FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! The cannabis industry has been highly controversial for a number of decades. As the legalization of cannabis has been...

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Politics is broken… at a global level. Most of us can agree with that. But, can it be fixed, or are we doomed as a species? One outsider determined to...

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NEW TO BLU-RAY! In Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, co-directors Emily and Sarah Kunstler bring to the screen an engaging walk-through of ACLU...

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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! In the documentary Faceless, director Jennifer Ngo provides a street-level view of the 2019 protests...

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NEW TO THEATERS! Set in the mountains of Ethiopia, Faya Dayi tells the story of khat, a plant used by Sufi Muslims during meditation. Khat has become a...

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NEW TO HBO MAX! Director Nanfu Wang, a revered and celebrated Chinese filmmaker, narrates and presents the COVID-19 story from its origins in Wuhan,...

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NEW IN THEATERS! I have lived in New York City for about 13 years, though it's not my home state. That would be Georgia, a totally different animal....

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