BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY
I’m a sucker for stories about the music business in the 1960s, when it was centered around 1650 Broadway and the Brill Building in Manhattan…yet I was unfamiliar with Bert Berns before I watched Brett Berns and Bob Sarles’s…
RISK: A DISAPPOINTING PORTRAIT OF JULIAN ASSANGE
A filmmaker would have to be inept to have access to Julian Assange and not come away with interesting footage. If you saw Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s intense, Oscar-winning feature about Edward Snowden, you would rightly expect something in the…
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2: FUN ON A GRAND SCALE
There is no reason Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 should be as good as it is. It’s a sequel, which means almost all of the concepts and characters that were fresh the first time around are now familiar.…
