Finding the Humor in Every Movie
Synopsis: Documentary on women in film, features interviews with women directors and actors. (Streaming on Netflix.) Field Trip. Ah, a blessed break from classroom drudgery. School trips to museums, historic sites … Continue Reading This Changes Everything
Synopsis: Bo Burnham special shot during the pandemic features lots of comic & serio-comic songs. (Streaming on Netflix.) Bo Burnham has a lot to say. A lot to say about his … Continue Reading Bo Burnham: Inside
Synopsis: A documentary on chef Wolfgang Puck. (Streaming on Disney+) Apologies if you are hoping that Wolfgang is a docu on classical music genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or modern day musician Wolfgang … Continue Reading Wolfgang
Synopsis: An elderly gay couple recount the early part of their lives together in the 1940’s. (Streaming on Netflix.) A Secret Love is a documentary following a devoted elderly couple, … Continue Reading A Secret Love
Synopsis: Dogs with people, all around the world. (Streaming on Amazon Prime.) In We Don’t Deserve Dogs, filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker travel the globe showing people and dogs together. The dogs … Continue Reading We Don’t Deserve Dogs
Synopsis: The lives of stray dogs in Istanbul is documented. Zeytin’s collaboration with director Elizabeth Lo was filmed in Istanbul, Turkey during six months in 2018- 2019. Zeytin, whose name … Continue Reading Stray
Synopsis: Borat, a Kazakh journalist wants to deliver a present to the American Vice President. (Streaming on Amazon Prime.) British chameleon of satire, Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the United … Continue Reading Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Synopsis: Naturalist David Attenborough’s witness statement based on decades of observation and study: an alarming loss of the Earth’s wildlife & wild spaces. He outlines how to help stop the … Continue Reading David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
Synopsis: A year in the life of an octopus and the man who follows her. Consider two life forms: one from the sea and one from the land. The water … Continue Reading My Octopus Teacher
Synopsis: A beekeeper, her bees and her neighbors in North Macedonia. Honeyland is a documentary, filmed over three years in North Macedonia by directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubornir Stefanov. Their … Continue Reading Honeyland
Synopsis: A couple starts a traditional farm in California. Molly and John Chester are two Los Angelenos with a dream: to create a thriving farm that exists in harmony with … Continue Reading The Biggest Little Farm
Synopsis: Two bff stray dogs live at a park in Santiago, Chile. They rub shoulders with the kids who frequent a skateboarders’ park. Chola and Football. These are the names … Continue Reading Los Reyes
Synopsis: Three humans go to the moon! Watching the documentary Apollo 11, which chronicles the July 1969 American journey to the moon and back, would’ve been too intense for me if … Continue Reading Apollo 11
Synopsis: The documentary follows wild animal families in China over the course of a year: a panda & her cub, a snow leopard & her two cubs and a … Continue Reading Born in China
