A documentary that busts a few myths about the romance genre and the people who read and write it.

About as open and probing as a documentary gets, this is a revealing look at an unparalleled entertainer’s professional and personal life.

In his graceful and disarming documentary, filmmaker Roger Ross Williams gets inside the head of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man who learned how to communicate by taking his social and language cues from classic Disney cartoons.

A collection of interviews with background actors and bit players from the original Star Wars , some of whom have managed to turn their work on the film into a lifelong source of pride and income.

The behind-the-scenes documentary I Am Thor is about a heavy metal singer who dresses up as, yes, the Nordic god Thor, bends steel bars, vanquishes foes onstage, and smashes bricks with sledgehammers. So, essentially, he’s the band GWAR before GWAR. He almost made it in the halcyon 1980s when He-Man (who he uncannily resembles) and […]

Embarrassingly, the first Tab Hunter film I ever saw was Grease 2 (1982). He played the hunky biology teacher opposite his longtime costar Connie Stevens. It wasn’t until many years later when I saw him in John Waters’s Polyester (1981), and even then I didn’t really understand his pop cultural significance. The documentary Tab Hunter […]

Produced and Directed by David T. Friendly and Mick Partridge Released by Submarine Deluxe/Gravitas Ventures/Complex USA. 70 min. Not rated They risked it all for a pair of Dunks. At the start of Sneakerheadz, a crowd of young men are arrested by the police. Why? A new sneaker release turned into a riot after a […]

Directed by Brent Hodge and Derik Murray Produced by Derik Murray Written by Steve Burgess Released by Virgil Films USA. 95 min. Not rated With Lorne Michaels, Bob Odenkirk, David Spade, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Christina Applegate, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Arnold, Bo Derek, Brian Stack, Bob Saget, and Jay Mohr Chris Farley was a bright […]

Directed by William Gazecki Produced and Written by Susan and Lloyd Ecker Released by Menemsha Films USA. 96 min. Not rated The Outrageous Sophie Tucker takes a breezy, mostly chronological tour through the on- and off-stage life of the singular entertainer, whose singing career extended from the birth of vaudeville to the rise of television. […]