The Gas Station Attendant
By Ted Metrakas June 11, 2026
There is more than meets the eye in this deeply personal documentary that grapples with family history.
There is more than meets the eye in this deeply personal documentary that grapples with family history.
One doesn’t need to go far underground before everything becomes strange.
The documentary is as much about Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason’s reflections on his family as it is about Iceland’s environment.
The documentary profiling the woman who extracted damages from Donald Trump is inspiring and infuriating at the same time.
Tangier Island, located in the Chesapeake Bay, has a population of about 400 people and is only two and a half miles long and roughly a mile wide. And it’s disappearing.
The Python Challenge, a 10-day extravaganza, invites amateurs from all over the country to catch and kill as many Burmese pythons as they can.
All three films offer rich explorations in under 100-minute runtimes and are highly recommended.
If there was ever a rock star in classical music, it was Leonard Bernstein.
Part biopic of journalist Amy Goodman, part media analysis, and part history of the last 30 years of major progressive news stories.