Category Archives: Film

Coming to Discovery+ today, Thursday, June 9:
DR. DELIRIUM & THE EDGEWOOD EXPERIMENTS

Executive Producers:
Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Craig H Shepherd, Nick Brigden

World Premiere:
Discovery+ (June 2022)

About:
An investigation into classified human subject research conducted on thousands of soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland from 1955 to 1975 by the United States Army Chemical Corps, experiments meant to evaluate the impact of potent, mind-altering chemical warfare agents on military personnel as an alternative to traditional combat.

New to VOD this week:
MISSION: JOY – FINDING HAPPINESS IN TROUBLED TIMES

Director:
Louie Psihoyos

Co-Director:
Peggy Callahan

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021

Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Cleveland, Boulder, Mill Valley, Palm Springs, Mountainfilm

About:
An exploration of the friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Coming to Ovid.tv tomorrow, Friday, June 10:
THE PATRIOT GAME

Director:
Arthur MacCaig

World Premiere:
Cannes 1979

Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Cinema du Reel, Festival dei Popoli

About:
An essay film examining the conflict in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1978, covering the height of the Troubles.

Coming to Netflix today, Wednesday, June 8:
KEEP SWEET: PRAY AND OBEY

Director:
Rachel Dretzin

Co-Director:
Grace McNally

World Premiere:
Netflix (June 2022)

About:
A docuseries examining the rise and fall of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

New to VOD this week:
BEING BEBE

Director:
Emily Branham

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021

Select Festivals:
Provincetown, NewFest, Outfest, BFI Flare, Tallgrass, Sound Unseen, Image+Nation, Heartland

About:
In 2009, Bebe Zahara Benet was crowned the first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but the franchise hadn’t yet achieved notoriety, so without an infrastructure to support her next steps, Bebe is confronted with the fickleness of fame.

Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 7:
BALONEY

Director:
Joshua Guerci

World Premiere:
Frameline 2021

Select Festivals:
Outfest, LGBT fests in Tel Aviv, Palm Springs, Boston, Seattle,

About:
The titillating and charming story behind San Francisco’s first and only all-male gay revue.

Coming to VOD today, Monday, June 6:
A SEXPLANATION

Director:
Alex Liu

World Premiere:
Cinequest 2021

Select Festivals:
Cleveland, Frameline, Inside Out, Sebastopol Doc, NYC Asian American, Zurich, Anchorage, Honolulu, Tallgrass

About:
The filmmaker probes the failures of our country’s sex education, the proliferation of pornography, and the stigma that is still attached to sex in America today.