Best of Criterion’s New Releases, December 2017

Happy New Year! Also: Happy Criterion Round-up! Election is nothing to sneeze at, but if you ask me, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait is the film from The Criterion Collection’s December slate with the most contemporary significance. (It’s also really good. Keep that in mind. Even if Donald Trump wasn’t our fucking president, it’d still be … Continue reading →

Review: Unlocking the Cage, 2016, dir. Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker

In my first review for The Playlist (The Playlist!), I tackled a little doc called Unlocking the Cage that tells the story of Steven Wise, an animal protection lawyer who fought, and is still fighting, for the personhood of animals in the eyes of the U.S. judicial system. I liked it! It helps that it’s by Chris Hegedus … Continue reading →