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April 28, 2022

The Wobblies: There Is Power in a Union, by David Bax

The Wobblies, Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer’s 1979 documentary about the heyday of the Industrial Workers of the World union (recently restored in 4K and set to screen all over the country for International Workers Day), makes no attempt to...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 1, 2021

Flee: Scar Tissue, by David Bax

There’s always a tinge of suspicion that bubbles up in me when I sit down to watch a smaller, independent film and am immediately greeted by recognizable names listed as producers. At what point did they come onboard? And to...

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November 22, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Procession, by David Bax

According to a quick Wikipedia search (so take it with a grain of salt), Missouri comes in at 33rd on a list of states ranked according to the percentage of their population that identifies as Catholic. That’s surprising to me...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 18, 2021

The First Wave: Hero Worship, by David Bax

Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave has a title with a very specific meaning; it refers to the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. But that might not be obvious to someone who hasn’t yet seen...

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November 18, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Simple as Water, by David Bax

Megan Mylan’s first feature documentary, 2003’s Lost Boys of Sudan, followed Sudanese refugees living in the United States. Now, with Simple as Water, she’s returned to the subject of refugees, this time Syrians who have been scattered across the globe,...

movies / tyler smith

November 5, 2021

Valley of the Shadow now available!

Tyler’s film Valley of the Shadow: The Spiritual Value of Horror is now available for rental on Vimeo! Valley of the Shadow from ReDiscover Television on Vimeo.

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

November 1, 2021

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #34: Craig Baldwin’s Sonic Outlaws (1995)

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 21, 2021

Becoming Cousteau: Washed, by David Bax

In Liz Garbus’ new Jacques Cousteau doc, the man in question is heard to say that he never wanted to think of himself as a documentarian because, to him, a documentary was just “a lecture by a guy who knows...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 14, 2021

Deep Blues: Goin’ Down South, by David Bax

Easily the biggest problem with far too many of today’s music documentaries is that they don’t have enough music. Or they do but they let their windbag talking head interviewees pontificate over it, self-defeatingly turning the very reason for the...

movies / tyler smith

October 11, 2021

Coming Soon: Valley of the Shadow

Tyler’s documentary, Valley of the Shadow: The Spiritual Value of Horror will be released on the Rediscover Television streaming platform in late October!

Tagged: documentary

The Wobblies: There Is Power in a Union, by David Bax

Flee: Scar Tissue, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2021: Procession, by David Bax

The First Wave: Hero Worship, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2021: Simple as Water, by David Bax

Valley of the Shadow now available!

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #34: Craig Baldwin’s Sonic Outlaws (1995)

Becoming Cousteau: Washed, by David Bax

Deep Blues: Goin’ Down South, by David Bax

Coming Soon: Valley of the Shadow

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