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Hot Docs 2021 reviews: directory Keep checking back as NOW's movie critics continue to review films throughout the festival By NOW Staff Courtesy of Hot Docs NOW’s film department has been busy watching selections from Hot Docs 2021’s virtual festival. Most films begin streaming on the festival’s opening day, Thursday (April 29) at 10 am. Keep checking back for more reviews. And remember a >>> sign indicates a critic’s pick.

by Steve Newton on April 24th, 2021 at 1:00 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 There's no shortage of music films to see at this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which streams online from May 6 to 16. You've got Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, a look at the life of the first mainstream Black woman in British punk rock; Sisters with Transistors, about the history of women in electronic music; and the world premiere of The Rumba Kings, which celebrates the rich tradition of Congolese rumba. Also worth considering is Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson's doc on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, And then ther...

Wellington City Council fines contractor after polystyrene waste scattered along coastline 14 Apr, 2021 04:36 AM 3 minutes to read Ōwhiro Bay resident Jade Lorier with a few of the polystyrene balls. Photo / Supplied NZ Herald Wellington City Council have handed out a $200 fine after an "irresponsible" driver allowed a load of polystyrene balls to scatter across more than 7km of Wellington's south coastline, including a marine reserve. "We were alerted to a widespread scattering of polystyrene balls around the south coast last week by a number of complaints to our contact centre, one of whic...

on films screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 9-18. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in every important sphere of life. The San Francisco International Film Festival could not be held at all in 2020. It reappeared this year, largely online (with additional live screenings and performances at a drive-in theater), inevitably diminished in size. In 2019, the San Francisco festival screened 163 films, including 46 narrative and 40 documentary features and 70 shorts. This year the festival, still under way, is presenting 103 films—42 feature (narrat...

Punk Rock evolved as a backlash against the 'free love and peace' mantra of the hippy movement, as Cait O’Riordan explained to Philip Boucher-Hayes, sitting in for Claire Byrne on the Today programme. The former bass player with The Pogues shared her knowledge and her personal stories about the musical and social phenomenon that was punk rock. It’s part of Today with Claire Byrne’s series of introductions to music you may not know, or as Philip Boucher-Hayes put it, "music you might otherwise avoid". We need your consent to load this Instagram contentWe use Instagram to manage extra con...