Evel Knievel interviewed after his friend daredevil Karel Soucek dies during a barrel drop stunt at the Houston Astrodome in 1985. Video credit: KPRC
Errol Morris Points His Camera at Steve Bannon, Looking for ‘American Dharma’
By Jonathon Norcross Dharma Noun (in Indian religion) the eternal and inherent nature of reality, regarded in Hinduism as a cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order. Errol Morris’ portrait of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is…
Origins: Making ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ with Larry David
After six years away, what brought Larry back to “Curb Your Enthusiasm?” How has the show change the casts’ lives? And what is the Curb legacy? (Source: Origins)
‘TREAD’ is the True Story of ‘God’s Plan’ for Marvin Heemeyer and His Bulldozer
By Gregory Crofton “Tread” perfectly entertained me — think Dateline with a fantastic story, no commercials and a decent-sized budget. The filmmakers had enough money to build a replica of Marvin Heemeyer’s customized bulldozer. They used it to recreate Errol…
The Arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell is Just the Beginning
There was little Jeffrey Epstein wouldn’t do to satisfy his lust for young women and girls. It included spending millions of dollars masterminding a worldwide sex-trafficking operation. Countless innocent lives were destroyed. A year ago Epstein was arrested and a…
‘Trouble Behind’: What Racism Looked Like in 1991 Kentucky
Trouble Behind (1991), a documentary by Robby Henson that examines the history and legacy of racism in Corbin, Kentucky, a small railroad community noteworthy both as the home of Colonel Sanders‘ Kentucky Fried Chicken and for “its race riots of 1919, during which over two hundred blacks…