‘The World’s a Little Blurry’ Shows How Fast Billie Eilish Became a Teenage Superstar

By Gregory Crofton Director R.J. Cutler (The War Room, The World According to Dick Cheney) took a cinema verité approach once he was granted access to the day-to-day of rising superstar Billie Eilish in 2018. That meant Cutler didn’t ask…

Mystery Revealed: How the Deadly Action Park Stayed Open for 18 Years

By Gregory Crofton If you grew up in the Northeast in the 80s, and you haven’t heard about the HBO documentary “Class Action Park,” you should be sure to check it out. I lived in Connecticut and was six years…

‘COW’: The Movie You Never Wanted to See

By Gregory Crofton “Cow” is painful to watch for a number of reasons. The documentary is shot in the dry style of cinéma vérité or direct cinema, which means there’s no narrator or any interviews. It’s just the camera and…

Climb a Huge Mountain Then Ski Down? Call It ‘La Liste: Everything or Nothing’

By Gregory Crofton “La Liste: Everything or Nothing” is a sequel of sorts. Several years ago extreme athlete Jérémie Heitz decided to make a list of 15 peaks in the Swiss Alps. The goal was to climb each one and…

A.P. Carter and the Beginning of Country Music Flows From ‘The Winding Stream’

By Gregory Crofton You might have heard about the beginning of Country music and a family called the Carters. Being based in Nashville for the last 16 years, I certainly had. I took a drive to Hendersonville, about 20 minutes…

The Magic of ‘The Alpinist’

By Gregory Crofton Marc-André Leclerc climbs the tallest of mountains, some covered with snow and ice, with no ropes to keep him from falling. Climbers call this free soloing. One mistake and you’re dead, and it wouldn’t be a pretty…

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