Convenient Truths

A name doesn’t make a person, but it’s kind of sad how one person can ruin a name for every else.

But how do you blame an entire system as the cause?

The film Dear Mr. Watterson is kind of a love letter to Calvin and Hobbes.

Unfortunately, When Jews Were Funny barely scrapes this question. In its unfocused spill, it misses so much of what could have made it great.

Is Blackfish mere propaganda or something more?

Daniel and Jason ponder whether the PBS documentary is too simplistic or just informative enough

Daniel and Jason look at a surprisingly honest new documentary about one of the most complicated men in comics, Steve Rude.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks take a look at Mr. Bitchin', a documentary on the legendary Robert Williams.

Daniel and Jason ponder if the fall of Detroit is the future of the middle class in America.

Convenient Truths returns with a documentary on a comic MFA program in the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Daniel, Jason and Paul contemplate if porn can be feminist.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks discover how they can get happy.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks discuss mid-life crises and synchronized swimming.

Two documentaries about the world's downward spiral.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks imagine CB's publisher as Jay-Z and discuss the deep problems with this documentary on Monty Python's Graham Chapman.

Jack Kevorkian made himself a martyr for his cause. Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks consider the issues brought up by the documentary.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks examine Jennifer Baichwal's worldwide debt-examining documentary based on a book by Margaret Atwood.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks examine the Kickstarted Replacements documentary and find something sorely lacking about it.

Jason Sacks and Daniel Elkin debate what documentaries should be and consider the man behind Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap.

Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks this time take a dive into Inside Deep Throat. It's, um, deep.