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USMC boot camp has a reputation as the most difficult basic military training in the world. I went through MCRD San Diego and then spent several years stationed on Parris Island. This is a collection of my memories and observations…
Everyone needs more WILDWOOD, NJ in their lives. Shot on dreamy Super 8 film by directors Ruth Leitman and Carol Weaks Cassidy with an all-women crew, this documentary shines a light on the lives of women from Wildwood, New Jersey—the…
Documentary celebrating the work of the Highlander Folk School, a progressive adult education center founded in 1932 in the mountain community of Monteagle, Tennessee. People of the Cumberland demonstrates how education and the labor movement can transform an impoverished mining…
By Gregory Crofton An archival doc about the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley is poised to be a big hit for theatrical documentaries when the industry badly needs a win. Baz Luhrmann’s “EPiC: Elvis Presley Live in Concert”…
By Gregory Crofton The emergence of sharable clips on Instagram of “Ren & Stimpy,” a hilarious 90s Nickelodeon cartoon, led me to a documentary about the show that I didn’t know existed. “Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy…
“You Never Had It – An Evening with Bukowski” captures a raucous night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood and humanity with the cult writer Charles Bukowski in 1981. This documentary is based on a video interview conducted…