Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Tag: Documentary

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)?

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Title: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Rating: R
Directed by: Thorsten Schütte
Starring: Frank Zappa
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 93 minutes

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It is only fitting that a comet and a mollusk are named in Frank Zappa’s honor. The famed American musician, composer, and thinker created satirical, operatic interpretations of music that seemed to originate from another world. Thorsten Schütte’s film is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of Zappa through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into the musician’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

Zappa was uncompromising as he led the charge against music censorship in the ’90s and even went on to embrace the role of quasi-cultural ambassador in the Czech Republic. His music and ideas are vital, and they cut across generations, while his goal of freeing the listener from conformity still resonates today.


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Breaking a Monster (2015)?

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Title: Breaking a Monster
Rating: NR
Directed by: Luke Meyer
Written by: Luke Meyer and Brad Turner
Starring: Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins and Alec Atkins
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 82 minutes

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BREAKING A MONSTER begins as the three members of band UNLOCKING THE TRUTH are all in 7th grade, spending their weekends playing a blend of heavy metal and speed punk in Times Square – often drawing substantial crowds. They take on a manager: a 70- year-old industry veteran. With his guidance they are soon on their way to a 1.8 million dollar record deal and a precarious initiation into the music industry.

Anything feels possible, and in some moments the band can almost feel the eyes of the world gazing upon them. The boys are coming of age, not only as they make the leap to being professional musicians, but also as they transcend childhood and take their first steps into the complexities of adulthood. The accelerated breakout of any band, let alone one of pre-teens, is an extremely narrow and specific period in time – BREAKING A MONSTER is the story of this rapid transformation.


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Misconception (2014)?

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Title: Misconception
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Jessica Yu
Release Date: 4/21/2014
Running Time: 93 minutes

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For almost 50 years, the world’s population has grown at an alarming rate, raising fears about strains on the Earth’s resources. But how true are these claims? Taking cues from statistics guru Hans Rosling, “Misconception” offers a provocative glimpse at how the world—and women in particular— are tackling a subject at once personal and global. Academy Award winning director Jessica Yu follows three individuals and focuses on the human implications of this highly charged political issue, inspiring a fresh look at the consequences of population growth.


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Tickled (2016)

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Title: Tickled
Rating: R
Directed by: David Farrier and Dylan Reeve
Starring: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve and David Starr
Release Date: 6/17/2016
Running Time: 92 minutes

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Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.


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Memoriam: In Memory of Oly Lynch


Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)?

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Title: Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Rating: NR
Directed by: Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen
Written by: Tim Skousen and Jeremy Coon
Based on the book by: Alan Eisenstock
Starring: Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb
Release Date: 3/14/2015
Running Time: 106 minutes

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In 1982, three 11 year olds in Mississippi decided to do a shot for shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It took them all 7 summers of their youth.

They finished every scene… except one. That final scene would take another 25 years.


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De Palma (2015)

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Title: De Palma
Rating: R
Directed by: Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
Starring: Brian De Palma
Release Date: 9/30/2015
Running Time: 107 minutes

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A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.


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Witness, The (2015)?

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Title: The Witness
Rating: NR
Directed by: James D. Solomon
Written by: William Genovese, Russell Greene, Gabriel Rhodes and James D. Solomon
Starring: William Genovese, Shannon Beeby and Kitty Genovese
Release Date: 6/3/2016
Running Time: 89 minutes

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Kitty Genovese became synonymous with apathy after news that she was stabbed to death on a New York City street while 38 witnesses did nothing.

Forty years later, her brother decides to find the truth. He uncovers a lie that transformed his life, condemned a city and defined an era.


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Time to Choose (2015)?

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Title: Time to Choose
Rating: NR
Directed by: Charles Ferguson
Written by: Chad Beck and Charles Ferguson
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Peter Agnefjall and Tasso Azevedo
Release Date: 6/3/2016
Running Time: 100 minutes

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This film explores the comprehensive scope of the climate change crisis and examines the power of solutions already available. Through interviews with world-renowned entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and brave individuals living on the front lines of climate change, Ferguson takes an In-depth look at the remarkable people working to save our planet.


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As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM (2015)?

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Title: As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM
Rating: NR
Directed by: Kevin Kerslake
Written by: Kevin Kerslake
Starring: DJ AM, A-Trak and Niko Achtipes
Release Date: 4/2015
Running Time: 109 minutes

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Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, was a man with deep passions and aggressive demons. As I AM is an insider’s look into the life of the late, great mash-up pioneer: his professional success that made him the first million-dollar DJ in the United States and his incredibly complex personal life that was lived under the specter of drug addiction.


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Weiner (2016)*

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Title: Weiner
Rating: R
Directed by: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Written by: Eli B. Despres, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Starring: Huma Abedin, Amit Bagga, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Anthony Weiner
Release Date: 7/8/2016
Running Time: 96 minutes

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An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and the landscape of today’s political landscape.


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  • We see an excited kid take a selfie with Anthony Weiner.
  • We see a short bit of Weiner during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.


 

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