Author Archives: basiltsiokos

Coming to Showtime today, Friday, October 7:
THE LINCOLN PROJECT

Director:
Fisher Stevens, Karim Amer

World Premiere:
Showtime (October 2022)

About:
A docuseries following a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project, the fastest-growing super PAC in America, as it takes on the task of “saving democracy” and defeating their own party’s sitting president, Donald Trump.

Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Friday, October 7:
CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER TAPES

Director:
Joe Berlinger

World Premiere:
Netflix (October 2022)

About:
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 7:
BATTLEGROUND

Director:
Cynthia Lowen

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022

About:
Heading distinctly different anti-choice organizations, three women lead the charge in their single-minded quest to overturn Roe v Wade.

Coming to OVID this Friday, October 7:
BLUE ISLAND

Director:
Chan Tze Woon

World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2022

Select Festivals:
New Directors/New Films, Hot Docs, Taiwan Doc

About:
A docufiction exploring Hong Kong’s protest movement and ensuing crackdown in the context of its history of rebellion.

Coming to AMC+ this Friday, October 7:
OUR AMERICAN FAMILY

Director:
Hallee Adelman, Sean King O’Grady

World Premiere:
Woodstock 2021

Select Festivals:
Philadelphia

About:
An honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse.

Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Thursday, October 6:
LA MANPLESA: AN UPRISING REMEMBERED

Director:
Ellie Walton

Select Festivals:
AFI Latin American, San Diego Latino, Festival de Cine Latino Americano, Bethesda

About:
Testimony, song, poetry, and street theater explores the collective memory of the 1991 rebellion that took place in a Washington DC Latinx neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man.

Coming to OVID this Thursday, October 6:
SCHEME BIRDS

Director:
Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2019

Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, Sydney, Biografilm, DMZ Docs, Zurich, Vancouver, Docs Against Gravity, Thessaloniki Doc, Taiwan Doc

About:
As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town – but in a place where “you either get knocked up or locked up,” innocent games can easily turn into serious crime.

Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, October 4:
THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST

Director:
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein

World Premiere:
Telluride 2022 (episode 1)

About:
A three-part examination of America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century, when public indifference, bureaucratic red tape, and restrictive quota laws stood in the way of supporting those who sought to escape the Holocaust.