Dec 30
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A walk through a once-thriving, now visibly depressed mall can provoke a specific kind of ambivalence. Like most…
Nov 12
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Lest you assume you’d be signing up for a stuffy art history lesson or, even worse, a “wholesome” family-viewing…
Sep 9
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Cats! Gotta love ’em. But how much is too much love? Talking to them constantly? Getting in their faces to tell them…
Aug 27
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As a child, I lived for the safe thrill of an amusement park. I loved a rickety wooden rollercoaster that sounded…
Aug 19
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Even in a time when galaxies of explicit sexualities are mere keystrokes away, there is something about nudity in…
Jul 31
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Few things in life are certain, but as sure as the sun shines, you can count on the seminal all-women band the…
Jul 15
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On Tuesday, HBO premiered Showbiz Kids, a documentary directed by Alex Winter (best known as Bill in the Bill & Ted…
Jul 9
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Growing up, there was one person in my family who was omnipresent and immortal: the great Walter Mercado. Mercado…
Jul 1
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I remember when reality TV was young, the Osbournes had so much fun throwing hams at people and picking up dog poop.…
Jun 16
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On Monday, PBS aired Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, a documentary by Matt Wolf (Spaceship Earth) exploring the…
Jun 8
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Despite accusations of pedophilia and sex trafficking, stories about Jeffrey Epstein often focus on descriptions of…
May 8
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Botanist Linda Leigh was among the eight specialists who spent two years in effective quarantine as part of the…
May 7
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In 1991, a group of eight experts of varied disciplines headed into a self-contained structure spanning just over…
Apr 27
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Netflix is releasing a documentary about former First Lady Michelle Obama, following along on her book tour. The…
Apr 22
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The best documentaries are about more than their ostensible subjects. Grey Gardens is not merely a vérité depiction…
Mar 11
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In the first moments of Hulu’s new documentary Hillary, a woman’s voice, presumably that of director Nanette…
Mar 10
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For weeks, Corey Feldman has been hyping his independently produced exposé (My) Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys, a…
Feb 28
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Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s 1991 documentary about the New York ball scene, has been argued over since the…
Feb 10
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Greta Thunberg’s climate change activism will be the subject of not one but two documentary projects, as the BBC…
Feb 6
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In the black-and-white photograph of Georgann Hawkins, she beams at the camera, a big, posed smile, and a flower…