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WRATH OF MAN: 3.5 STARS “Wrath of Man,” a remake of Nicolas Boukhrief’s 2004 French film “Le Convoyeur,” is a revenge heist flick that sees director Guy Ritchie reunited with his trademarked tricky storytelling style, Jason Statham, and the ruthless violence that made his early movies such eye poppers. Statham plays “’H’, like in bomb,” a man of few words with a mysterious past – big surprise there. They should call him Gazpacho because he is the coolest of cool cucumbers...

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, directed by the doc filmmaker Marilyn Agrelo ( Mad Hot Ballroom). This premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival this year, and will be arriving in theaters + on VOD soon. The film chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed childrens TV, but it also had real-world effects on equality, education, and representation. Inspired by Michael Davis best-selling book of the same name. With more than 20 int...

Deep into HBO’s thoroughly engaging documentary Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street, longtime Sesame Street producer and songwriter Christopher Cerf sits down at a piano to play a whimsical little Beatles pastiche. As he sings “Letter B,” a song barely shifted musically from “Let It Be,” director Marilyn Agrelo cuts between him and the 1981 Sesame Street segment where mop-haired, antenna-sporting Muppets perform the song, backed by a drum kit that gives their band name as “The...

One of the standouts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. The documentary from Marilyn Agrelo ( Mad Hot Ballroom) dives into the origins of the beloved children’s program Sesame Street, a groudbreaking venture that dared to use television to educate children at a time when it was being used for nothing but mindless entertainment to keep them occupied. As you can see in the first trailer for the documentary, th...

Rolling Stone New Doc ‘Street Gang’ Delves Into the ‘Sesame Street’ Story: Watch the Trailer Film uses archival footage, interviews, never-before-seen footage to chronicle show’s experimental origins, global impact By Sesame Street is explored in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, which will arrive in theaters April 23rd, and on-demand services May 7th. Directed by Marilyn Agrelo, Street Gang is based on Michael Davis’...

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Documentaries like I Am Big Bird: The Carroll Spinney Story and Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey have already dug into a couple slices of the magic that makes Sesame Street so beloved by children and adults alike. Now Marilyn Agrelo‘s new film Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (inspired by Michael Davis’ book of the same name) goes back to the origins of the groundbreaking series created by producer Joan Ganz Cooney and writer/director Jon Stone, and shines a light on the h...

Ten Sundance Film Festival titles worth streaming [The Dallas Morning News ] With films screening virtually and in-person at satellite locations across the country, Sundance is a hybrid independent film festival this year. In Dallas, the Texas Theatre is showing 13 movies, and three of them have Texas ties. But the majority of the weeklong program’s 70-plus feature films will only be available to North Texans through virtual screenings. Here are some of the hottest Sundance titles to catch in...

10 Sundance Film Festival titles worth streaming The indie fest is largely a digital platform this year. Director Marilyn Agrelo’s "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" is a documentary about the origins of the beloved children’s TV show.(Luke Geissbühler / Sundance Institute) With films screening virtually and in-person at satellite locations across the country, Sundance is a hybrid independent film festival this year. In Dallas, the Texas Theatre is showing 13 movies, and three of ...

Captains of Zaatari Filmed over six years, debutant director Ali El Arabi’s documentary follows the fortunes of two best friends who live in Jordan’s Zaatari Refugee Camp. While facing the difficult reality of their lives, they have a dream of becoming professional footballers that will just not die. Practising virtually every day, when a world-renowned sports academy visits, both have a chance to turn wishful thinking into reality. Supplied Censor MotherFatherSon and The Virtues’ Nia...