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By Barry Rubinow It’s become a cliché to say that wild and crazy news stories, although true, would be rejected by the movie studios as too preposterous, if they were pitched as a script. In the remarkable new documentary THE…
By Gregory Crofton At a social gathering Tony Robbins sensed that documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger had some unresolved personal issues. Not long after that Berlinger found himself enrolled in one of Robbins’ six-day seminars with the hope he could experience…
By Gregory Crofton In WEINER, a documentary that recently screened at the Nashville Film Festival, Anthony Weiner, a congressman who resigned his seat because of a sexting scandal, runs for mayor of New York City — a job that’s always…
By Gregory Crofton Director David Gelb brings his glossy, precise style to deliver yet another powerful movie with A FASTER HORSE, a documentary streaming on Netflix that’s about designing and engineering the 50th anniversary model of the Ford Mustang. Gelb,…
By Gregory Crofton Can a movie about someone’s amputated right leg hold your interest for more than an hour? Almost, if it’s made by some talented filmmakers, as is the case with FINDERS KEEPERS co-directed by Bryan Carberry and Clay…
By Gregory Crofton The father, a follower of Hare Krishna, wanted to create his own version of a tribe. He succeeded. Except his tribe was his wife and their seven kids, all imprisoned and living on welfare in a small…
