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February (2015)
Unsettling, dark, splendid
A skillfully made movie that deftly fuses scares with atmosphere to make for an overall unsettling, but profound experience. The sound design is exceptional. A lot of good horror movies have been made recently and 'The Blackcoat's Daughter' belongs with the best of them. Must-see.
Traceroute (2016)
A love letter to being different and being proud of it
A geeky nostalgic road movie (get it? traceroute? trace/route? get it? hop hop? nudge nudge?) that follows a pretty crazy dude across a pretty crazy country.
'The United States' were really important to young Johannes when growing up in 1980s Krautlandia, so he pays a visit as a pop culture pilgrim. And while Johannes is covering a topic that has been covered a million times before, he brings originality to the film...lots of.
You will either really like this doc, or you will be cursing me for wasting 2 hours of your life. Oh well. I'm just sad that he didn't make it to Oklahoma City.
Dinosaur 13 (2014)
A thriller about bones
This is a very interesting documentary, although watching it will certainly make you mad at the legal system in the United States. It's bizarre how stupid it is capable of being. Like The Cover and Man On Wire, this doc comes clad in the garb of a thriller. And a heck of a good one at that. Recommended viewing.
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
Merchants of Doubt is a worthwhile, though depressing film.
Kenner tells us that big oil is using the same tactics – and often the same personnel – as big tobacco: set up any number of supposedly independent thinktanks, get plausible professionals on the (mouthwatering) payroll, and just sow the seeds of doubt. You undermine conviction, filibuster government action, fog public opinion, get brazen blowhards to shout loudly on Fox News. And the people best at this are the ageing, neocon attack dogs, veterans of the tobacco wars, who in the evening of their lives find a thrilling new purpose in climate change doubt-production.
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)
Black comedians and their lives
The film is based on the book Black Comedians on Black Comedy: "How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh", by Darryl J. Littleton. Quincy Newell, Executive Vice-President of Codeblack Entertainment, was the producer and co-writer (with John Long) on the project. An official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
It is a very important film, showing us the lives and minds of black comedians and how the see and interpret the world.