A Binding Truth is a story about two people who share the same last name – one black, one white – both from Charlotte, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County. When Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and Hugh “De” Kirkpatrick encountered each other as high school classmates in 1965, neither thought much of anything about their shared name, …
Continue reading TCFF 2023 Documentary Review: A BINDING TRUTH (2023)
In the interest of time, I'm going to be posting more than one review at a time during the film fest. Some might be shorter than others, depending on how much time I have on a given day. Still Working 9 To 5 Let me preface this review with the fact that I had not …
Continue reading TCFF 2023 Documentary Reviews: ‘Still Working 9 to 5’ and ‘Greener Pastures’
There are countless documentaries and films that have been made about Queen Elizabeth II. But I was intrigued by Portrait of the Queen as it’s told from the perspective of the Queen’s photographers. Not to be confused with Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts released last year by Roger Michell. It’s exactly a year and a …
Documentaries are often a great way to get insights into worlds that are foreign to us, that’s why I was intrigued by the offer to view this documentary by Tom Wiedlinger. It’s both a historical as well as personal film about his enigmatic father, the acclaimed structural engineer Paul Wiedlinger who fled Europe just ahead …
We're now past the halfway point of MSPIFF and I've seen about nine movies so far… wish I had seen more of course but hey, I'll take whatever I can get as I'm juggling a 40-hour workweek. These two films couldn't be more different from one another, but both are definitely worth your while. The …
Continue reading #MSPIFF42 Double Reviews: The Hamlet Syndrome (documentary) + Dancing Queen
If Oppy were a human being, one would likely say 'what an overachiever!' So Oppy is an affectionate nickname for Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover built by NASA scientists. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ended up exploring Mars for nearly 15 years. When I first saw the poster, …
Continue reading Good Night Oppy Review – a heartfelt and uplifting doc about a robotic explorer
After Antartica The title of Legendary Polar Explorer is not a title easily earned. Minnesota-born educator, author and lecturer Will Steger earned that title when in the years between 1989–1990, he was the first to dogsled traverse Antarctica, and the International Arctic Project. Then in 1995, he became the first and only person to dogsled …
Continue reading TCFF 2021 Documentary Reviews: After Antartica + A Fire Within
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