Her Wilderness by Frank Mosley

This was a very bold film, Director Frank Mosley even said himself that he knew he was taking a lot of risk in how unconventional this film is. I would almost call this avant garde, but it does have a followable story line to some extent. While this film was very brave in it's completely non-commercial approach, I can't say it was amazing, the best I'd give it would be a 7/10, and it gets that score for the great symbolism Frank employed having a little girl lost and stumbling through the woods, hurt but resilient. This film was about how different life choices effect one woman in different stages of her life, the stages he focuses on are early twenties and single, then married in her late thirties, and finally late in her fifties or sixties and widowed. I think the pacing of some of the scenes wasn't quite right, Mosley took a slower pace through the whole film but it was painfully slow at some points.

The Thin Blue Line

This was an incredible film. Historically speaking, I've never been a fan of murder-mystery drama kind of things, but this documentary was able to present all the details of the case in a very factual and interesting way. Errol Morris also did an amazing job on the recreations of the crime scene and the proceedings of the case. I also was very pleased at all the interviews he had in his film, personally I love interviews and think they're a great way to convey emotion and information. I may be slightly biased to how interesting this is due to the fact that I'm a Dallas resident and it is just incredible to think that this all happened at places I know, such as the shooting at North Hampton.
To sum it up, I thouroughly enjoyed the film, and may be slightly biased to how interesting it is. With that said though I believe Errol Morris made an incredibly informative documentary that every Dallas resident should see.

Blackfish

This was a documentary on the cruelties of orca whales kept in captivity, specifically at Sea World and Marine Land. I found it very informative and really shed some light on an issue that I really didn't know existed. The director did a great job of getting multiple perspectives on the issue, with lots of interviews and archived footage of events that actually happened. The thing I didn't like is that as it went on it started to get slightly preachy with less factual arguments and more biased beliefs. They also could have used more people on the other side of the argument, instead of just using old interviews taken out of context.
With all of this said though, I still believe it was an effective argument and it certainly made me want to become active in freeing the whales and taking down companies who treat animals cruelly.