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Documentarian John Wilson, known for his HBO show How To with John Wilson, is out with his first feature length documentary on what might seem like a rather dense subject: The History of Concrete. Source link

10 NEW TO NETFLIX“Boyhood““The Breadwinner““The End of the Tour““Knock at the Cabin““Oculus““On Chesil Beach““The Room Next Door““The Squid and the Whale““Sundown““Top Gun: Maverick“12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD“12 Angry Men” (Criterion)People often ask me which classic films they could use to...

Blurring–or rather smudging–the lines between hunter and hunted, predator and prey, exploiter and exploited, director Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime” derives its deliciously devilish thrills through emphasizing contrast. Whether it is imbuing spiritual weight to the earthiness of its story, oversaturating...

Created by George Kay, HBO’s new series “War” follows tech billionaire Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his movie-star wife, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), whose marriage is colder than the dreary London weather. When we first meet him, he sleeps...

The 64th edition of the New York Film Festival strikes me as its strongest in ages. I have no doubt that many critics and festival observers will agree with this, and no doubt various theories will be adduced to...

After looking for a good whistleblower movie to watch with my almost-lawyer daughter, we settled on Michael Mann’s “The Insider” (1999). I have a soft spot for whistleblower movies, including “Serpico,” “Dark Waters,” “Official Secrets,” “Spotlight,” and “Snowden.” Their...

It is rare to see a perfect film, let alone two back-to-back, but that is precisely what happened to me on the same day recently at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Both films were documentaries, which in this...

In 1966, photographer Barry Lategan scheduled a test shoot: a model’s first-ever photo shoot, meant to market her to other photographers and brands. That model was 15-year-old Leslie Hornby, a slim, boyish girl with a pixie cut and penciled...

“It’s embarrassing to know so little about something that occupies so much of your visual environment.” A little over ten minutes into his film, “The History of Concrete,” director John Wilson shares these words in praise of that very...