It has been almost fifty years since The Beatles’ last performance. The Beatlemaniacs would give anything just to see the four boys together again. While that particular wish might not be literally possible, director Peter Jackson has brought us the next best alternative in the form of a documentary. The … [Read More]
The new two-part documentary, “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time”, delivers exactly what the title indicates it will. Laurel Canyon is a place situated northwest of Hollywood in Southern California. And there once existed a magical time from the mid 1960’s straight into the heart of the ’70’s when it … [Read More]
On October 15, 2019 I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Wolfman’s Got Nards, a documentary about the phenomenon from conception to fan loyalty for the film The Monster Squad released in 1987. If you have not been fortunate enough yet to see The Monster Squad in your … [Read More]
The riveting new documentary “For the Birds” is a story that leads us down several roads. Obsession, marital struggle, love and loss are among the moving life experiences touched upon most poignantly by Director and Co-Producer/Editor Richard Miron. Miron brings us into the profoundly unusual world of Kathy, a wife, … [Read More]
Apollo 11 features an insider’s look at one of the most significant events in human history. This documentary features never-before-seen, unedited footage as NASA prepares to send the first men to the moon and reveals the personal lives and experiences of Commander Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Directed … [Read More]
Two documentaries showing at SXSW deal with the difficulty of being an athlete and hanging it up (i.e., retiring). Those two are “Time Trial” by Finlay Pretsel of Scotland and “Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes,” directed by Robert S. Bader. Cavett is 81 now and traveled to … [Read More]
The late George Harrison was labeled “The Quiet One” among the members of the greatest rock group the world will ever know. The iconic songwriting team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney blasted The Beatles into the highest stratum of eternal superstardom during the 1960’s. But the music of Harrison … [Read More]
I probably would not be the passionate fan of baseball I am today if not for my dad first introducing me to The Grand Old Game when I was a child. Maybe I still would be. But I tend to feel more like maybe not. The just released short film … [Read More]
The recently released “Starving the Beast” is a documentary which, depending upon your perspective, is likely to either alarm or appease you in terms of the current and future state of higher education in America. I recently had the opportunity to talk with the film’s Writer and Director Steve Mims from his … [Read More]
The message being imparted in “Starving The Beast”, the recently released documentary examining what is alleged to be a shift in direction among some American public higher education institutions seems to boil down to this: Humanities, liberal arts and other so-called “soft subject” disciplines of study=Good. Core curriculum courses like … [Read More]
Fastball from Gravitas Ventures on Vimeo. I’ll ask this straightforwardly and without flippancy. Have you ever had a good-sized rock solid projectile hurled directly at or near your person from just over twenty yards away while you remained stationary even as the object blazed forth at anywhere from 90 to … [Read More]
a Netflix original documentary. This is the colorful true story of the Portland Mavericks, a scrappy, independent baseball team of underdogs started by actor Bing Russell in the 1970s. “The Battered Bastards of Baseball” is a documentary chronicling the last ever independent Major League Baseball affiliated minor league franchise. Owned … [Read More]