My third alarmist AI documentary so far this year. I have yet to find one about Ukraine though. It’s probably just how screeners come my way. I’ll give it time. This is the best of the AI specific docs, and narrowly comparable to Your Attention Please, which is also mostly about how Social Media is wrecking you kids, but also how AI is starting to contribute. This documentary backs off of the overpersonalized approach of Daniel Roher’s AI doc, and instead takes a seemingly neutral approach. Instead of smacking you with the apocalypse, it asks how did we get here, … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: AI Probably Nothing To Worry About

This could have been the plot to the Now You See Me sequel, where the crew has to fight piracy, and the secrets to their tricks being sold online.This doesn’t require an illusionist, just some bored teens in a country where piracy reigns supreme, who see a niche they feel needs to be filled. The unfortunate truth is, you can actually steal magic. And no,not in some Disney way where an evil wizard drops from the sky and drains the home you know of all its magic, but there are actual people who build complex tricks, and sell them to … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: Stealing Magic

Yes, a whole documentary just about The A Word. George Carlin would be so proud. Not that kind of A word? Well, then it must be the other more risqué A word. No? Oh. it’s a documentary about aging. Hold my beer. I feel constantly triggered by media as I never feel, nor has anyone correctly guessed my age (because I dress like a child), and yet I hear my age all the time. I remember rewatching Frasier within the last few years, and in the early seasons, he said his age, and it matched mine. And I felt so … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: The A Word: The Future Of Aging

Families are complicated, and having to unpack that in a documentary can be tough. In American Zoo, we focus primarily on the Catskill Game Farm, which for decades was a massive zoo that a family got to grow up on and around, because someone had to run it. But just who is that someone? The film uses the present to reflect the past as we learn of Heinz Hezck, a German doctor who was invited in 1959 to come over and run this zoo. And Yes, he’s that kind of German, or at least appeared to be, and that is … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: American Zoo

Sometimes, you forget that when you critique something, there is a potential for the person you are critiquing to actually read the thing you wrote. Earlier, before being a blind film critic, I did get a couple of shoutouts for my reviews, even without the TomatoMeter approval. Probably the coolest one was Gina Prince-Blythwood who loved that I loved Beyond The Lights. Those in the industry seem to be built for criticism, but what about documentaries? I certainly have had filmmakers reach out, most of them about this thing called audio description that didn’t exist, or the fact that audio … Continue reading Brooklyn Film Festival 2026: Rocket Girl