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Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids

December 2, 2023Addison Wylie0 Comments

Andrew Jenks’ documentary Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids will obviously appeal to fans and collectors of the famous toy brand, but it should also reel in viewers who are obsessed with streamable studies on snowballing catastrophes (Tiger King, Fyre, Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?, Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99).  This nichey flick doesn’t boil over with ridiculous, jaw-dropping climaxes, although it is a shock and a hoot to watch ‘80s video footage of…

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Mister Organ

October 25, 2023Addison Wylie0 Comments

David Farrier is an intrepid journalist and documentarian, but he may have met his match with Mister Organ, an unconventional film that changes its purpose almost as often as its subject changes his personality.

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Silver Dollar Road

October 16, 2023Addison Wylie0 Comments

Silver Dollar Road, the latest documentary from Oscar nominatee Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), sets out to make an example of the Reels’ family.  Currently residing in Adams Creek, North Carolina on valuable property sought out by developers, members of the Reels family recount the harassment and drawn out legal battle that they’ve experienced trying to keep their ownership and generational ties to their land.

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Kokomo City

July 30, 2023Addison Wylie0 Comments

The discussion about which older movies wouldn’t be made today because of current sociocultural identities and relations is occasionally debated, but chats about which contemporary movies couldn’t be made “back then” are not discussed enough.  I’m grateful for D. Smith’s Kokomo City, a revealing documentary that belongs in the latter exchange, because of its progressive existence.  It challenges transgressive opinions and uses the medium to address, and bring awareness to, important issues of personal representation…

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Once Upon a Time in Uganda

July 18, 2023Wylie Writes Staff0 Comments

By: Trevor Chartrand Many B-Movie enthusiasts are likely familiar with the squib-bursting insanity of Who Killed Captain Alex?, the Ugandan action movie with a violent – and loud – viral trailer on YouTube.  Shot in an impoverished slum, the film is creative with its budget, which reportedly was less than $200.  The movie is absurdly violent.  It’s goofy, it’s strange, and it looks and sounds terrible.  But, Captain Alex is also a film with a…

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Making Time

July 3, 2023Addison Wylie0 Comments

Liz Unna’s documentary Making Time bounces between subjects who all share a career in watchmaking, and have an overall obsession with time itself.  Being a horologist has put life into perspective for these meticulous people, and has issued a number of self-reflections and epiphanies.  This collective fascination is the frequency Unna invests all of her storytelling confidence in.  Unfortunately, Making Time lacks personal touches as well as a coherency between the doc’s interviewees.

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Fashion Reimagined

June 23, 2023Wylie Writes Staff0 Comments

By: Jolie Featherstone Becky Hutner’s urgent Fashion Reimagined is an important report, rendered through masterful storytelling.  Formally hired to edit docs (Revolution, Being Canadian), it’s near impossible to believe that Fashion Reimagined is Hutner’s feature-length documentary directorial debut.

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