Yippee! Summer is around the corner, more and more of us are fully vaccinated, AND it’s LGBTQ Pride Month—what could be better? Okay, so many, many, many things could be better obviously, and we must continue to fight the good fight, but now is also a time to celebrate the big and small advances in […]

It’s baseball season and, though neither of us are avid sports fans, we’re all too familiar with the concept of “streaks” and “slumps.” After all, they’re not limited to sports. Sometimes they even occur in the realm of at-home viewing. With access to such a wide variety of films and programs we’re bound to select […]

As a filmmaker who has directed documentaries, and an academic who has taught theory classes about them, I watch programs that are labeled “non-fiction” with a wary and critical eye, aware of how audio-visual presentations can manipulate what we see, what we don’t see and how we see or don’t see events and claims presented […]