2021 Reviews Archives - Page 17 Of 19

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Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

The substance-use crisis and drug-poisoning epidemic among the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta is explored in Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. Since 2014, the opioid crisis has cost hundreds of lives to members of the Kainai First Nation, which is on top of the ongoing issue of alcoholism and other substance abuse crises. Filmmaker […]

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy – Hot Docs 2021

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Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

A veteran gamer attempts to play for 100 hours in a single stretch in Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest. Kim “Cannon Arm” Købke is a Danish man, who has been an avid player of arcade games since 1977. Kim regularly gathers with his friends at the Bip Bip Bar and plays his game of

Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest – Hot Docs 2021

The Face of Anonymous – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

Commander X of the hacktivist group Anonymous tells his story in The Face of Anonymous. One day novelist Ian Thornton struck up a conversation with a homeless man on the streets of Toronto, who turned out to be Christopher Mark Doyon, aka “Commander X” of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Now living in political asylum in Mexico,

The Face of Anonymous – Hot Docs 2021

Viral – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

The COVID-19 pandemic is depicted through the social media vlogs of 7 members of Generation Z in Viral. Now in their early 20s, the members of Generation Z is the first one to grow up with social media. Seven YouTubers begin 2020 like any other year, including Nathaniel (@Nathaniel Drew), who had just moved to Paris,

Viral – Hot Docs 2021

Playing with Sharks – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

The story of marine conservationist Valerie May Taylor is told in Playing with Sharks. Australian-born Valerie Taylor began her career as a champion spearfisher, before having a change of heart and began to focus on marine conservation with her husband Ron Taylor. Together, Valerie and Ron made underwater documentaries to try and destigmatize the fears of

Playing with Sharks – Hot Docs 2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

Take a look behind-the-scenes in the creation of one of the longest-running children’s television series in Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. The brainchild of Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, co-founders of the Children’s Television Workshop, Sesame Street was created in 1968 as counter-programming for children’s television shows that at the time were focused

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street – Hot Docs 2021

The Sparks Brothers – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

Edgar Wrights guides us down the highly influential, yet criminally underlooked career of the band Sparks in The Sparks Brothers. Described as “the best British group to come out of America,” Sparks was formed in 1967 Los Angeles, under the original name HalfNelson, lead by brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Over the course of their five-decade-long

The Sparks Brothers – Hot Docs 2021

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A.rtificial I.mmortality – Hot Docs 2021

2021 Reviews, Doc Thoughts / Sean Patrick Kelly

The growing Transhumanist movement is examined in A.rtificial I.mmortality. Humanity has been trying to fight death since the beginning of our existence and there is a growing movement of transhumanists, who believe that the future of humanity lies in artificial intelligence, in the form of eternal digital selves. Filmmaker Ann Shin explores this possibility and

A.rtificial I.mmortality – Hot Docs 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021 Reviews, Premium VOD, VOD Reviews / Sean Patrick Kelly

A petty criminal in sent by the FBI to infiltrate the Black Panther Party in Judas and the Black Messiah. William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) is a small-time criminal, who is caught attempting to hijack a car while pretending to be a federal officer. FBI Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) approaches William and offers to drop

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mortal Kombat

2021 Reviews, Premium VOD, VOD Reviews / Sean Patrick Kelly

The popular fighting video games receive a new film adaptation in Mortal Kombat. Cole Young (Lewis Tan) is a past-his-prime MMA fighter, who learns from Major Jax Briggs (Mehcad Brooks) that the dragon-shaped birthmark on his chest makes him chosen to participate in an ancient tournament called Mortal Kombat. Pursued by Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), sent

Mortal Kombat