Film Reviews

Keep in mind that Bayer AG (best-known as the aspirin company) remains in a legal hot-seat over its weed-killer Roundup, a product it inherited when it bought Monsanto. Although Bayer agreed to pay almost $40 million over allegations that it ran misleading ads about the product, … [Read more...] about Filmmakers Demonstrate In Short Documentaries: Why Regenerative Ag Means Future Human Health

As a term of social import, sustainable, like so many politically charged buzzwords, threatens to blur into non-specificity. Sustainable, the documentary by Matt Wechsler and Annie Speicher, seeks to re-focus the term into a term of art. And they do so by making the best kind of … [Read more...] about Filmmakers Give Meaning To “Sustainable” Agriculture In Award-Winning Documentary

Covering an eight-year struggle to establish John and Molly Chester's Apricot Lane Farm, nature is filmed up-close in the must-see film, The Biggest Little Farm. With its  profound emotion and a narrative arc that is suspenseful, this winner of Best Documentary at the Boulder … [Read more...] about Must-See Movie Spotlights Farming With Nature That Healed 200 Acres of Abused California Farmland

Is it really possible to boil cooking down to balancing just four elements that, when understood, can make anyone a great cook? Well, that’s the premise and purpose behind chef, author and now documentary host Samin Nosrat’s four-part Netflix series, Salt Acid Fat Heat, based … [Read more...] about Exploring Four Dimensions Of Flavor With Samin Nosrat’s Senses-first Approach in Netflix’s Four-Part Series: Salt Fat Acid Heat

Wendell Berry has been the conscience of rural America for several decades, presenting a cohesive, considered response to the over-industrialization of our lives. He has done so through his essays, novels, and poetry, while living a life as a Kentucky farmer with a deep … [Read more...] about Film Portrait of Wendell Berry Disappoints Expectations