You’re at the cinema, and a movie comes on. After the title appears, you see the words “Based on a true story.” Anymore you have

Noticeably absent from my list are documentaries. Many good ones are still being made, but they seem to be less available. And not being near

Shortly before Thanksgiving, my daughter told me about Serial, a podcast exploring a nonfiction story over multiple episodes (thus the name). It’s a spinoff of

Among the many well-made, one-word films out this year (Boyhood, Interstellar, Fury, Nightcrawler), two recent ones stand out: Birdman (though it has that curious parenthetical

As I’ve written before here, many of these “true” stories stretch the truth quite a bit. Such is the case here. The film is actually