Author: Nonfics

Photo by Christopher Campbell Increasingly it seems film festivals have to be about more than just the films. That isn’t to say they’re becoming carnivalesque…

Journeyman Pictures The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is in something of a precarious position, at least theoretically. On the one hand there is its…

Sheffield Doc/Fest I would have titled this dispatch “New Movies From Martin Scorsese,” plural, but during last night’s Q&A with Steve James (which, yep, I…

Web Junkie Q&A, photo via Twitter/Dogwoof As someone who takes pride in conducting critical interviews with filmmakers, the differences between that art form and the…

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: Archive-Based Stories Trump Muckraking Exposes Alfred and Jakobine, via Sheffield Doc/Fest On the second day of Doc/Fest, I didn’t take in any…

Photo by Christopher Campbell It takes a special kind of nerd to walk through the streets of London obsessively looking at the driver of every…

First Run Features Telling stories about cancer is a hazardous endeavor. So many books, movies and television episodes have exploited the subject for easy, mawkish sentimentality.…

First Run Features While it’s sold as a comedic Western, A Million Ways to Die in the West is not a very good Western at all.…

Docurama “When not close enough to be killed, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights in the world.” That quote, from a 1950s…