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Watching the selection of short documentaries nominated for this year's Academy Awards, one gets a sense of how much work goes into getting them into shape, considering how most are independently produced. There's not a mask to be seen and only a br...

This is the first year that a local theater has shown the year's documentary shorts as a single block, rather than broken into two, for which I'm grateful: Aside from being a bit easier to schedule with so little time between the short film packages...

Yep, this is pretty late, almost a whole week. Lots of stuff to write up and snow messing up my usual schedule for doing it Last Tuesday at the Regent for the Gathr Preview series, which has since moved to Monday and been somewhat scaled down. T...

Yep, this is pretty late, almost a whole week. Lots of stuff to write up and snow messing up my usual schedule for doing it Last Tuesday at the Regent for the Gathr Preview series, which has since moved to Monday and been somewhat scaled down. T...

My subscription to the Gathr Preview Series runs out in mid-March (not bad for a three-month membership purchased in September; cancellations and skip weeks must have caught up), and I must admit that at this point I'm not certain whether I will rene...

I joke about this every year, but if you get into an Oscar prediction contest (like the eFilmCritic Oscar Pick' Em), especially one that weights every category evenly, a little knowledge of the more obscure categories - documentaries, shorts, and sou...