Tag: Crip Camp

  • Streaming: top docs for lockdown

    Streaming: top docs for lockdown

    The Obama-produced Crip Camp offers a winning combination of the heartfelt and the hard-hitting. Plus, more real-life tales from Cuba to Uzbekistan“Escapism” is an operative word when you’re hunkered down under quarantine and surveying your home viewing options, but how you interpret that is up to you. Many will opt for fiction and fantasy, for…

  • It’s Hard Being Cut Off from Society? Welcome to My World

    It’s Hard Being Cut Off from Society? Welcome to My World

    It seems like a million years ago when I watched the Netflix documentary “Crip Camp,” which explores the rise of the Disabled Rights movement in the 1970s. A few weeks later, the world was in a full-blown pandemic that forced all of us to abandon everything we knew about interacting with the world. Public transportation,…

  • Everything Coming to Netflix in March

    Everything Coming to Netflix in March

    Netflix is adding a robust line-up of popular programs to its slate in March.In addition to rom-coms like Matthew Mcconaughey’s “Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past,” “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “Always a Bridesmaid,” the streamer is also adding a few classics like “Goodfellas” and “The Shawshank Redemption” starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. The…