I find this a bizarre and riveting alt-history documentary that questions what would have happened if the South had won the American Civil War and the US had sustained a slavery-centric government until now.

There’s a surprising depth to the thought process behind this film.  It’s like a sophisticated poly-sci thesis project presented by Saturday Night Live production team.

Some of the alternative world events:  America would remain neutral during WWII and be a soul-brother to Hitler’s Germany.  The women’s…

Tony Montana is a giant of a cinematic figure. Partly this is courtesy of Pacino’s gigantic performance—the accent, the posture, the facial expressions. But Pacino’s titular gangster is also a Shakespearean tragic hero with a fascinating story arc—an interesting yet violent beginning, middle, and end—born right out of the 1980s-era Cuban refugee news footage.

I suspect that SCARFACE didn’t do the Cuban-American community any favors by connecting these mobsters to Cuba’s Cold War stigma or downplay any sensationalization of gangland…

The first strikingly engaging thing about this doc is the conversational and acoustic elegance  of the chief go-to interviewees.  Hulk Hogan, Mean Gene, Jerry Lawlor, and a neighborly and casual Vince McMahon are well-spoken, articulate storytellers with not only phenomenal 30-year-old recall but also amazing speaking voices.

So this is to say that the talking-head thrust behind story-telling engine of Andre’s story (and mythos) is in the hands of fantastic narrators.  And as the filmmakers marry archived wrestling footage to…