Made in America (2014)
Great musical documentaries are hard to come by, especially in this day and age of pop stars churning out self-congratulatory pseudo-mythmaking with everyone from Justin Bieber to Katy Perry to…
Share
Posts by tag
Documentary
11 posts
Competition: Win ‘Fire in the Blood’ DVD
In celebration of the DVD release of Dylan Mohan Gray’s ferocious documentary Fire in the Blood, The Moviejerk is giving away two (2) DVD copies to our lovely, loyal readers…
Share
My Stuff (2014)
Imagine clearing your flat, locking up all your things – from your most prized possessions down to your most mundane thingamabobs – in a storage somewhere and you’re only allowed…
Share
Competition time! Win ‘How To Survive A Plague’ DVD
Without a doubt one of the best DVD releases this month, the incandescent documentary How To Survive A Plague is coming into disc format this 31 March, courtesy of UK…
Share
DVD: How To Survive A Plague (2014)
Documentaries rarely come as piercing and purposeful as this. David France’s angry, upsetting and highly condemnatory account of the 1980’s American AIDS crisis – where a group of activist unite…
Share
DVD: Fire in the Blood (2014)
In a space of a week, we are treated to not only one but two DVD releases of documentaries about AIDS-crisis because there’s nothing else better in 2014 so far…
Share
Milius (2013)
Anyone alive during the 1970’s would remember the name of John Milius, perhaps the most infamous renegade of New Hollywood movie brats of which include directors Scorcese, Spielberg, Coppola and…
Share
Love, Marilyn (2013)
With the discovery of Marilyn Monroe’s treasure trove of letters in her Actor’s Studio coach Lee Strasberg’s house comes this documentary that attempts to dispel Monroe’s blonde bombshell public persona…
Share
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2013)
It’s both heart-wrenching and frustrating watching an account of a witness when he is denied the faculty of words. This is never better exemplified than in Alex Gibney’s exceptional documentary…
Share
LFF 2012: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
There’s probably a scarce number of people on this planet who can lodge critical summation and cultural psychoanalysis by looking at a chocolate Kinder egg and still remain thought-provoking and…
Share
The Imposter (2012)
One of the finest films of the year turns out to be a documentary. The Imposter is a bold, compelling tour-de-force that employs cinematic techniques to explore the nature of truth, deception and storytelling itself. Above all, it defies documentary conventions to expose a darker side of the human mind as good as any work of fiction does.
Share