Documentary
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Summer Doc Series: Hot Coffee
A woman gets coffee from McDonald’s, spills it on herself, sues, and gets a bunch of money. That’s all there is to the story, right?…
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Summer Doc Series: Sex Crimes Unit
For the first half hour, it’s difficult to tell whether Sex Crimes Unit will have the momentum to make it through to the credits, and…
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Summer Doc Series: A Matter Of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
Recent culture has given us a view of chefs as either dainty elitists, screaming lunatics or rats voiced by Patton Oswalt. Paul Liebrandt is none…
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Why You Might Want to Wait Until the End of Summer to Start Shooting That Documentary
In 2009, Lee Storey made the documentary Smile ’Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story after finding out that her husband had been involved…
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Summer Doc Series: Bobby Fischer Against The World
All this summer, HBO is featuring documentary films in its line up, so all this summer, we’ll be reviewing them. On one hand, it makes…
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Burnt Money and Unsolved Murder: Watch This Clip From the ‘Kill the Irishman’ Special Features…
Burnt Money and Unsolved Murder: Watch This Clip From the ‘Kill the Irishman’ Special Features Documentary As you might know, Kill the Irishman is based…
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Sarah Palin Can See the Big Screen From Her House
She may have never actually said that she could see Russia from her house (that’s the power of Palin parody), but the former Governor of…
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The Band Plays on in the New ‘Thunder Soul’ Trailer
Thunder Soul is the movie Neil called, “a sweet, heartbreaking, truly unique emotional journey,” when he saw it during SXSW last year. It’s a documentary…
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‘Project Nim’ Trailer Gives You a Glimpse Into the Creation of a Planet Ruled By Apes
Adorable primate or your future master? Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh has a new movie coming out this summer that takes a look at yet another icon…