THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt on new PBS docuseries

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2025
George Washington Crossing the Delaware; By: Emanuel Leutze; 1851 from | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | ©2025 PBS

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION is a twelve-hour, six-part documentary series about the founding of the United States, premiering on PBS Sunday, November 16 and running through Friday, November 21. It will be available in 4K on PBS and the PBS app. Directed and produced by the prolific Ken Burns and his frequent collaborators Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, and written by Geoffrey C. Ward, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION delves deep into many aspects of the American colonies’ efforts to break ties with England. Burns, Botstein and Schmidt come together for a Zoom press conference to answer questions about THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CHAIN REACTIONS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/12/2025
CHAIN REACTIONS movie poster | ©2025 Dark Sky Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama Writer: Alexandre O. Philippe Director: Alexandre O. Philippe Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: September 19, 2025 (theatrical); October 21, 2025 (digital, VOD) CHAIN REACTIONS is a killer title for a documentary that is all about people’s reactions to the 1974 horror movie THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. It works not just because of the pun, but also because CHAIN REACTIONS, written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, explores the “chain reaction” that the now-fifty-one-year-old film has influenced so much of what followed, which in turn […]Read On »


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THE SPACE RACE: Astronauts and the executive producer talk about the Hulu documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/15/2025
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The award-winning documentary THE SPACE RACE was originally produced for National Geographic Channel and is now streaming on Hulu. Directed by Lisa Cortes & Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the film chronicles the struggle to get Black men and women into NASA’s astronaut programs. It is as or more timely than when it was originally released in 24. Astronaut Leland Melvin, one of THE SPACE RACE’s executive producers, is also one of the film’s subjects. His autobiography CHASING SPACE: AN ASTRONAUT’S STORY OF GRIT, GRACE, AND SECOND CHANCES, was published in 2017. Victor Glover is still an active NASA astronaut who […]Read On »


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LEONARDO DA VINCI: Filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon on new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2024
LEONARDO DA VINCI Key Art | ©2024 PBS

It is perhaps impossible to overstate the influence of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, on subsequent civilization. Scientist, inventor, engineer, painter, sculptor and architect, da Vinci did so much that exploring his entire life seems a Herculean task. But that’s exactly what filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon set out to do with their four-hour documentary LEONARDO DA VINCI, which airs on PBS over two nights, Monday, November 18, and Tuesday, November 19. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Sarah Burns (Ken Burns’s daughter) and McMahon (Sarah Burn’s husband) […]Read On »


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PBS NATURE: SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY: Director Nate Dappen and NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/05/2024
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San Diego, California, is famous for many things, but it’s generally not heralded for its free-roaming wildlife. But perhaps it should be, according to the PBS NATURE documentary SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY, which premieres on PBS Wednesday, November 6. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in the somewhat less wild city of Pasadena, CA, SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY writer/director Nate Dappen and PBS NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman sit down to talk about their geographically contained but biologically epic film. Dappen is especially intrigued by the intersection of wild creatures and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WAR GAME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/27/2024
WAR GAME movie poster | ©2024 Submarine Deluxe

Stars: Chris Jones, Kris Goldsmith, Ralph Brown, Janessa Goldbeck, Gov. Steve Bullock, Maj. Gen. Linda Singh (MD Arng., ret.), Elizabeth Neumann, David Priess, Joe Reeder, Sen. Doug Jones, Sgt. Major Marshall “Will” Williams (USA, ret.), Gen. Wesley Clark (USA, ret.), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan (USA, ret.), Ben Radd, Eric Schmeltzer, Samantha Libraty, Bill Kristol, Isha Sesay, Peter Strozk, Louis Caldera, Gwen Camp, Lt. Gen. Alexander Vindman (USA, ret.), Doug Wilson, Fred Wellman, Chris Coffey, Jack T. Tomarchio, Gary Perez, Doug Gordon Writers: Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss Directors: Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber Distributor: Submarine Deluxe Release […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/25/2023
A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE | ©2023 September Films/Giant Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Bruce Vilanch, Kevin Smith, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Mick Garris, Donny Osmond, Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Steve Binder, Lenny Ripps, Kyle Newman Directors: Jeremy Koon & Steve Kozak Distributor: September Films/Giant Pictures Release Date: December 5, 2023 (digital) The 1978 STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL became an immediate legend for how horrified its viewers were. People who tuned in expecting a follow-up to George Lucas’s 1977 hit movie instead got two hours of something that made fans and civilians alike wonder, “How did this happen?” It’s taken forty-five years, but A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE, subtitled “How the […]Read On »


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BS HIGH: Filmmakers Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe on new HBO documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/01/2023
BS HIGH Key Art | ©2023 HBO

BS HIGH theoretically stands for Bishop Sycamore High, the institution at the heart of the documentary by filmmakers Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe. However, the title of the doc, which is now available on HBO and Max, could hardly be more appropriate in the more colloquial sense of “BS.” On August 29, 2021, ESPN televised a high school football game between Bishop Sycamore and the top-ranked-for-football IMG Academy. Bishop Sycamore did so badly, and had so many player injuries, that it wasn’t just a case of a blowout score in favor of IMG; questions arose as to how such […]Read On »


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SAM NOW: Filmmaker Reed Harness discusses his family documentary mystery – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/02/2023
SAM NOW Key Art | | ©2023 PBS

SAM NOW is a multi-award-winning documentary that has its television premiere Monday, May 8, on INDEPENDENT LENS on PBS. Filmmaker Reed Harkness began making short films featuring his younger half-brother Sam Harkness when Sam was eleven. These shorts often featured Sam as the character the Blue Panther. Sam’s mother mother Jois (pronounced Joyce) had divorced Reed and Sam’s father Randy Harkness and remarried. When Sam was fourteen, Jois disappeared. But SAM NOW is not a true crime story. Reed and Sam Harkness set out on a road trip to find Jois when Sam was seventeen. What they found shows family, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE FIGHT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/31/2020
THE FIGHT movie poster | ©2020 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Lee Gelernt, Brigitte Amiri, Dale Ho, Josh Block, Chase Strangio Directors: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Eli Despres Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: July 31, 2020 THE FIGHT is a documentary about the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU. More specifically, as we are informed by a supertitle near the start, THE FIGHT is about four of the hundreds of lawsuits that the ACLU has brought against the Trump administration. In THE FIGHT, we follow four lawyers from the ACLU’s New York headquarters. Lee Gelernt, who specializes in immigrants’ rights, seeks to reunite parents and children who have […]Read On »


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