Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival.
"My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited portrait of an 11-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian boy caught with his family in the series of wars against Azerbaijan which have greatly reduced the land that was once part of Armenia. The boy is remarkably positive given the circumstances and follows...
"Soundtrack for a Coup D'etat" is a fascinating and highly entertaining study of the unexpected relationship between some famous Jazz musicians and the C.I.A.-backed 1960 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It opens at the Film Forum Friday, October 25 and will also be screened at the upcoming DOC NYC festival. A Q&A with director...
Beginning this Thursday, October 21, you can watch Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic 1965 novel "Dune" for free if you subscribe to...
Two brilliant recent graphic novels about monsters.
Published earlier this year, Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on this graphic novel for 35 years and met...
The popularity of the Korean Netflix series "The Squid Game" and the distinctive uniforms worn by its characters have propelled sales for Squid Game...
Barry Forshaw is a British writer who specialises in crime fiction. He has written many books, including “British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia”, “The Rough...
Start your introduction to detective fiction by reading three classics of the genre and then comparing them to their best film adaptations, two of which are among the best of Film Noir.
