The Endless Summer (1966)
Classic documentary from the 60s which now is remembered by many as a blissfull ode to a bygone era. Two all American boys Mike Hynson and Robert August take a gap year, before "gap years" were...
View ArticleUnforgivable Blackness (2004)
Before there was Muhammed Ali, there was Jack Johnson. Ken Burns' documentary presents James Earl Jones, Keith David, Samuel L Jackson and Alan Rickman portraying the phenomenal story of the first...
View ArticleOne Night In Turin (2010)
Agh, just the thought of reliving that night is absolutely unbearable. For those too young, or too non English to have hidden behind the sofa during our only semi final exit in World Cup history, I...
View ArticleSick The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) (NSFW)
Bob Flanagan was a BDSM celebrity. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a child, he was expected to live to 7 or 8. Treatment for his condition involved removing vast amounts of thick, viscous mucus from...
View ArticleThe Filth and the Fury (2000)
The heydey of the Sex Pistols was a confused period. Punk was anti-establishment and anti-wealth, but also anti-popularity. The bigger it became, the more the self-styled founders could not recognise...
View ArticleControl Room (2004)
Methods of information control and massive conflicts in interpretation come crashing together in this insiders view of the Coalition Media Center during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This battleground...
View ArticleTake Me To Pitcarin (2013)
I can't help but enjoy a personal film like this one. Julian McDonnell is a permanently, even irritatingly, cheerful 30 something with a dream. He must travel to Pitcairn Island, the home of the...
View ArticleMy Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
A painful and at times overwhelming personal portrayal resulting in a "narrative structure" for a patient to "understand her own journey". A challenge to the nature of reality through the eyes of...
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