Film Reviews

Nothing you read here will prepare you for the experience of watching Gunda, the new film from Russian director Victor Kossakovsky. It’s about animals, in particular a pig whose name gives the movie its title. But she, and her litter, and the chickens and cows we will also see, … [Read more...] about Gunda: A Fully Felt & Riveting Documentary Film Of A Mother Pig’s Daily Life

We’re feeling the horrible effects of a global climate crisis. We’re wracked with guilt over the lousy food we consume – or we should be. There are solutions, but how do you persuade the public to change its ways? Get celebrities to give those answers. Or so believe filmmakers … [Read more...] about Celebrities Bolster The Message In The Film KISS THE GROUND: Restore Soil To Balance Earth’s Climate & Feed The World

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