I cried as much as I rolled my eyes, like nothing I've seen before - but also not surprising of a movie called 'Black Mother' made by a man. Men take up much of the audial space, whilst women's  bodies take up much of the visual

Was the only one in there spare an old guy at the back, and felt more like I was in an art gallery and I feel like this would suit that space better than…

Seen at BFI London Film Festival 2021
Festival strand: Journey

This was a much better documentary than I was expecting, even though it is as conventional as I imagined it would be; the power of good storytelling elevates it. It's a biographical film about Arthur Ashe, and it really benefits from being made by someone who knows tennis. That might sound a bit obvious for a film about a tennis champion, but as it's Ashe's ethnicity and life outside of…

Timely showing before the release of the 4k restoration of 2001 next week. Dogwoof docs tend to pick absolutely fascinating subjects to cover, but run out of steam at some point due to the inexperience of the director or whatever. I worried this one might do the same, after the Full Metal Jacket segment it seemed to drift a little but was pulled firmly back on track for a strong, moving finish which positions Leon Vitali as the ultimate curator…

Filmed in 1995 by first-time filmmaker Marc Singer, 'Dark Days' documents a small portion of a several-hundred-strong community of homeless people who call the New York subway tunnels home.
Filmed in eerie black and white, the film covers every aspect of their lives. Family, drugs, their current housing and how they earn their money; along with the banalities such as their eating habits and their bathroom habits.
Dark Days is devastatingly real and gritty, to the point it almost seems…

Dogwoof + Showtime. Blu-Ray
1.78:1
Color 
HD
15

"Every day you live your life, you lose another day. You don't have that many. So if you're not fighting for things you care about, then... you are losing"

Poitras companion piece to CitizenFour is compelling, devastating and complex. The idea of net neutrality and the obscenities that are going on behind closed doors are truly horrifying. Aside from a random and strange encounter from Lady Gag, which leads nowhere. The film…

I first heard about homeless people living in abandoned railway stations as an urban myth, so seeing a full documentary on the subject is like finding out there really are alligators in New York sewers. Dark Days is one of the least careerist films ever made; Marc Singer taught himself film-making purely to document the community he found underground in NYC, and he hasn't made a film since. Which is fine, but I do wish he'd at least lend his…