In A Dangerous Game, Anthony Baxter returns to plague both golf and Donald Trump, but he takes the show global this time, in a documentary that's both fun and powerful.
There probably hadn’t been such a titan of organized crime since the heyday of 1930s prohibition and the days of Al Capone. In Boston though, the name James J. Bulger was hardly one with a lot of sentimental nostalgia attached, but rather it conjured images of fear and violence in South Boston, conditions that police and law enforcement at all levels of government seemed powerless to stop. Of course, we know how the story ends, and Bulger, AKA: Whitey, was arrested after nearly 20 years on the lam, tried, convicted and sentenced of multiple counts of murder, conspiracy, extortion and drug trafficking. But how did everyone let Whitey get away with so much for so long?
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun, secondly he hopes to be able to live long enough to see it. Jokes are all fine and fell, but the men profiled in the film The Immortalists are deadly serious (pardon the pun) about the idea of not just extending human life, but reversing aging itself. It sounds like science fiction, believing that the Fountain of Youth is a daily pill that’s 10-15 years away from being in our medicine cabinets, but if sheer passion in excess was the only thing needed for massive paradigm changes in science, the two researchers profiled in The Immortalists would have already succeeded by now.
Tough Love is a stinging and insightful documentary about the struggles of people who are trying to be good parents, but are chaffed by a system that sees them as bad.
The journey of Bronx Obama is just as fun and dramatic as the journey of the actual Obama to the White House, except it’s even more of an underdog story.
