The Review at the End of the Universe
My first outing to the Edinburgh International Film Festival, although not the first I’ve reviewed, was a jaunt along to catch The First Monday in May. This promising piece is brought to us by documentary film-maker Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower, Page One: the New York Times). I will admit to going into this as a…
Andreas Johnsen’s documentary BUGS tackles the question of whether insects are a viable solution to the global food supply problem. To many the idea of eating insects is a really horrific prospect as they are often considered to be disgusting but a fact of life in the developed world is that we often don’t have…
Kevin Pollak’s documentary Misery Loves Comedy has him ask a large number of people associated with comedy what they think makes them funny. Comedy is a difficult beast at the best of times. We all know what we find funny and can rattle off examples of things we consider to be hilarious but the question of…
Paul Goodwin’s documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD pretty much delivers what the title suggests. It’s a documentary chronicling the life cycle of iconic British publication 2000AD. The documentary is nicely structured as it opens with the comic beginning right in the middle of the punk era and draws the parallels between this time…
Precinct Seven Five -or The Seven Five- as known in the U.S. is a documentary chronicling police corruption surrounding drug trafficking during the 1980s in New York City. I’ve actually never reviewed a documentary before so I have no idea how this is going to go. Any advice or feedback that people have will be…
