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I first discovered an issue of MAD around 1966. It was stuffed down the side of a couch at my buddy Greg’s house. We were...
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I first discovered an issue of MAD around 1966. It was stuffed down the side of a couch at my buddy Greg’s house. We were...
Dan Rather is weird. Well, he’s not just that but he is that. He’s the political commentator who used country-fried similes you never...
The United States of America seems to exist in a perpetual Groundhog Day circuit of endless repetition. Civil rights battles are waged, won, and erased. The cultural...
There is a need for a documentary that pulls the curtain back on the rising tide of antisemitism in America and the infiltration...
Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold , a feature-length doc about one of the most scandalized, contested video games in history, is dropping on Apple and...
The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as an action “that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.” But in the United States, there...
The legacy of The Karate Kid has not only endured but evolved into a full-fledged cultural movement, thanks to the massive success of the...
Full disclosure: while running an Olympic-themed movie competition in 2024, your humble FOG! correspondent was pleased (and a bit confused) to discover the surprisingly...
With the notable exceptions of Witness and Kingpin (and, more recently, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking), big screen depictions of the stubbornly old school, modernity-eschewing...
Bring up spooky lights one through three. Roll creepy sound effects. We are now ready to Journey Into The Beyond… Cue Theremin. Cue Mr....
American Movie is a painful watch. Usually that’s a dealbreaker. In the case of Chris Smith’s unflinching (but not unfeeling) 1999 documentary about Mark...
The Library of Congress, The Better Angels Society, Ken Burns, and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation today announced the winner of the sixth annual...
Disappointing but still worthwhile documentary on the extraordinary makeup artists – led by John Chambers and Tom Burman – who created the revolutionary...
For over two decades, KINGDOM COME, the landmark comic series by Mark Waid and Alex Ross has enraptured the minds of superhero fans. Now,...
“Whatever you think I am, that’s what I’m not…” – Grant Morrison Grant Morrison is considered a rock star of comics, leaving a trail...
creatorvc, the team behind smash-successes Aliens Expanded and In Search of Darkness. have announced the development of their most ambitious documentary yet: The Thing...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
While the historical-clips-plus-talking-heads style of this documentary may be conventional, its subject was anything but: namely FLOTUS Lady Bird Johnson’s indomitable press secretary, Mary...
“You can’t stop the production just because somebody dies.” So says Pinny Grylls, co-director of the singular (and 2024 SXSW Documentary Feature Competition Jury...
From the earliest Gen Con wargaming clubs in the 1960s to the Freaks and Geeks and Stranger Things kids rolling 20-sided dice in suburban...
It was love at first sight in 1990 when I first began visiting (and occasionally living in) Austin, TX — and then a year...
Jack L Warner: The Last Film Mogul is a documentary following the life and career of Jack L. Warner, one of the founding owners...
There should be a warning at the start of A Disturbance in the Force documentary: DO NOT WATCH the Star Wars Holiday Special. It’s...
Written and directed by longtime friend and filmmaker Malcom Ingram, Clerk chronicles the life and career of Kevin Smith. Known for his live appearances...