Nat, Cody, and Robert are joined by Angela Fabbrini to take a look at three documentaries that explore various subjects associated with horror films and filmmaking with VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP, AND VIDEOTAPE, BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON, and WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF
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I’m wrapping up my coverage of the 2026 Dialogues Documentary Festival with KIDS LIKE ME which was technically the first film I saw. DRAWING LINES and CHEYENNE featured women in male dominated fields. AMAZING LIVE SEA MONKEYS and KIDS LIKE ME focused on memorable people. In this case the memorable person in question is Oliver.
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The last day of the 2026 Dialogues Documentary Festival brought me to an evening showing of AMAZING LIVE SEA MONKEYS. It may have been the last film of the festival, but it certainly was not the least. You’ll read me complain elsewhere about documentaries that kind of stick to a commercial template and kind of
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Coming straight from TIFF and continuing the theme of women in Male-dominated fields, Saturday brought the US premiere of CHEYENNE to Milwaukee. CHEYENNE is a documentary centered on four women competing on the women’s rodeo circuit. There’s Bee, a single mom, who has to support her son and has worries about what will happen to
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The 2026 Dialogues Documentary Festival kicked off from Milwaukee film this week. Turner Classic Films had a crew in the house shooting footage for an upcoming segment on the Oriental Theatre and there was a decent sized crowd to see a pair of documentary shorts at the beginning of the festival under the title “Drawing
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This month, Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by Jim Laczkowski as we review the boyhood adventure that is Joe Dante’s EXPLORERS. EXPLORERS was Joe Dante’s follow up to GREMLINS. Although he didn’t originate the project, by all accounts he was excited to do it. And he cast two kid actors that would leave an
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