There are indie film scenes like the one chronicled in Actor Martinez everywhere, ones where those with a day job have ambitions that cannot and never will pay ...
I have no doubt that one day gifted visual storyteller Ed Gass-Donnelly will make a brilliant work. With four features under his belt, including This Beautiful ...
Returning to the form of feature-length documentary to chronicle a subculture and the people that take pleasure in it, Brent Hodge’s third feature The Pistol Sh...
As adorkable as it is, Adult Life Skills, like its lead Anna, never quite takes off. Approaching 30 and still heartbroken over the death of her brother, she rem...
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, which is one of the lessons that the protagonist at the heart of Ido Fluk’s moral thriller The Ticket learns...
The Check It, like many other gangs, arrived out of necessity to protect their own. In the case of the Washington, D.C.-based gang which counts over 250 members...
Somewhere between Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Food, Inc., at the intersection of culinary adventure and social justice, Nordic Food Lab’s head chef Ben Reade and l...
Keep Quiet is a chilling and comprehensive documentary following the path to redemption – or a calculated political act – for Csanad Szegedi, a right-wing anti-...
Calling for a national conversation that we ought to be having on the use of lethal force, National Bird considers all sides of the program, from those pulling ...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
