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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. No matter what, this guy’s pulse rate never rises above 50 beats per minute. When we first meet...

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 children's 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 interviews with original writers, cast, and crew, and never-before-seen behind the scenes footage, S...

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 Beetles.” The segment wraps, and Cerf chuckles a bit and casually adds, “That was a $5 million ...

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, that was just the beginning of the genius that Sesame Street would bring to TV. Sesame Street Documen...

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’ 2008 book of the same name, which chronicles how Sesame Street went from an out-there experiment i...