You may think you know Tina Turner’s story. It’s been the source of a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning movie, and two stage musicals. As she made plans to retire from the public eye, she sat down with filmmakers Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin — who directed the acclaimed 2011 documentary Undefeated — to tell her […]
Author: Chelsea Spear
Chelsea Kearin is a Film Racket critic.
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Lou Ottens, the Danish engineer who invented the audio tape, died last week. This simple-yet-ubiquitous technology went from being a staple of every home, to near obsolescence, to a revival as a hip and affordable format to music distribution, all within less than half a century. In Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape, director Zack Taylor unwinds […]
Moxie
Since time immemorial, girls have spent their high school years dealing with harassment from their male classmates; girls’ school sports are frequently underfunded compared to their male colleagues; girls’ dress codes are more strenuously enforced than boys’; and required reading assignments are weighted towards white male writers at the expense of more diverse writers. In […]
The World’s A Little Blurry
In the pre-pandemic era, Billie Eilish rose from out of nowhere to become a global phenomenon with her 2019 album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Her apocalyptic lyrics, horror-movie aesthetic, and irreverent attitude resonated with zoomers coming of age in an uncertain time, while her reedy, jazzy voice, showtune-catchy melodies, and […]