Tag: documentaries

I would be lying if I didn’t admit that today has been long and emotional! As you know, I enjoy a good cry and I…

Apollo 11 is about as pure cinema as you can get. This is an experience movie, something that taps into the feeling of seeing images…

Often we take our lives in the West for granted. I am guilty of this, especially throwing away items once I am finished with them…

Why is nobody talking about the Best Documentary Feature category at the Academy Awards? Robin and Bianca are furious. Well, skeptical perhaps. Certainly one of…

I fly like paper, get high like planes, If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name. The incomparably talented, swagga-some…

The International Documentary Association (IDA) have been building up to one of the biggest nights of the year for the ever-growing genre of filmmaking. In…

2018 has been a strong year for documentaries. With so many of documentaries sharing similar themes and topics. This is my personal pick of the…

BAFTA award-winning filmmaker (for A Syrian Love Story), Sean McAllister, has voiced his dismay at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rating his new…

Just what can money buy you? Status, class, authority, respect, infamy, a presidency? The list of things you can gain with a little (or rather…

Despite being dubbed as another dumb blonde to rival Marilyn Monroe,  Jayne Mansfield was actually a genius with very high IQ, of 163. In addition…

The British Empire is a thing of the distant past, long dead and buried. But, out of the ashes a new, more destructive empire emerged;…

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose…

“It’s a funny thing with documentary films – you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional…

“There is so much investment in it of people’s labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might…