Abby Olcese

True/False Film Festival: Seized does the Marion County Record (and small town papers everywhere) proud Courtesy True/False Film Fest True/False is an annual festival in Columbia, Missouri, MO, that celebrates the best of nonfiction (and nonfiction-adjacent) filmmaking. Our film editor, Abby Olcese, is ...

More True/False reviews! SEIZED, about the 2023 raid at the Marion County Record, vibes like a hybrid of Parks & Rec and Spotlight, which is exactly the right tone. It's serious about what matters, and affectionate toward its subjects.

Top Five Reasons COLUMBO victims must die:
5. Not good enough to marry my child.
4. Standing in the way of my big break.
3. Blocking my inheritance.
2. Knows about my scandalous past/affair.
1. Threatening to destroy all the good work we've been doing here at the Institute.

*Pink Floyd voice*
So
So you think you can tell
Kenan from Kel…

Ain’t no rule that says a raccoon can’t have a library card

True/False Film Festival: Nuisance Bear raises interesting ideas, but lacks a compelling argument Courtesy A24 True/False is an annual festival in Columbia, Missouri, MO, that celebrates the best of nonfiction (and nonfiction-adjacent) filmmaking. Our film editor, Abby Olcese, is covering the even...

True/False dispatches begin! Nuisance Bear has some interesting perspectives, I wish it were better than fine, but fine is...fine.

Me: Bucks Harbor starts with a grizzled Maine lobsterman grabbing a frozen coyote carcass out of his truck bed, and man, I dunno if a movie has ever more quickly announced it's for me. #TrueFalse Mom: Your dad just buried a chewed up rabbit I found in the backyard. Sorry I didn't get it on video. Didn't realize that was your thing.

My mother, ladies and gentlemen.

Bucks Harbor starts with a grizzled Maine lobsterman grabbing a frozen coyote carcass out of his truck bed, and man, I dunno if a movie has ever more quickly announced it's for me. #TrueFalse

Doubly confirmed: Ross McElwee is not for me. I wish it were otherwise.

Oh what the hell. Matt this blows, I'm so sorry.

btw! The Secret Agent and It was Just An Accident are both on Hulu and both very worthy of your time!! #FilmSky

A man in a neon suit, blue sequined jacket and parrot mask plays congas.

Update: Renee's son is wearing a parrot mask and playing congas and I've never felt more protective of a person in my whole life.

Like, imagine growing up in a family band and your mom is Renee Scroggins. Non-stop fun.

ESG, including a tambourine player in neon yellow who is breakdancing.

ESG is playing the Blue Note tonight. There is one remaining original member performing, the rest are relatives who protect her like she is fine porcelain, which is exactly correct.

He *absolutely* believes shoveling snow builds character.

My dad and eight-year-old me carving a jack-o-lantern circa 1996-7. My dad is wearing a red and blue plaid wool button up, I have on a goldenrod sweater with some blue and red patchwork patches embellished with stitches and embroidery of flowers and autumn leaves.

Not only does this photo have my best look, I think it also has my dad's.

Maybe it's just because I've seen two artist docs already, but I REALLY dug the Marianne Faithful film BROKEN ENGLISH. Mess up that form, give me a fun framework and jump scare Adrian Utley all day baby. #TrueFalse

SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS, a heartwarming doc from SECRET MALL APARTMENT's Jeremy Workman about students at a boarding school for North Korean defectors, undid me. I'm gonna go cry forever now. #TrueFalse

I am eating a pastrami egg and cheese sandwich at Goldies. My joy is readily apparent.

I've been dreaming of this moment for weeks. WEEKS.

Sarah pours Malort shots into red shot cups

The True Crew that Malorts together.

Just hours into True/False and I've already seen one movie, am getting pizza at Shakespeare's and ran into @eshynes.bsky.social and @guylodge.bsky.social in the wild, so I think I'm doing pretty good!

Like, beyond the fact that this exact mindset is the source of so many problems, that's just no way to live a *life*! It's gotta be so boring!

I have this thought multiple times a day. I meet so many people who simply don't care to think about stuff beyond face value and it's like running into a brick wall.

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

As far as I know, it was just the way he got by during the depression. I have a vivid memory of him telling me about the time he got arrested by a railroad bull and had to grease ball bearings at a train yard on Christmas Day.

My grandpa was also a hobo and a WWII vet!

Yo, @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social, here's hoping you'll be able to pick me out during HOKUM.

Buster has such a serious face, but I swear I've never met a bigger, sweeter doofus.

A black tuxedo cat lounging on a green pillow with his sister, a brown tabby, posed on top of him for some reason

They're practicing for our Olan Mills family portrait.

The regularity with which this movie gets quoted in my family. Like two-three times a month at the very least.

This day just full of release news that caters to me specifically. Not mad about it.