Using some family movies and some more up-to-date footage of the often moon-like scenery of modern day Iceland, this documentary proves really quite effective at illustrating the ongoing and profound effects of global warming. Rather than just bombarding us with statistics and scare-mongering facts, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason introduces us to his now deceased grandparents and by using the chronology of…

Nature films generally do a great job of capturing the intrinsic beauty of our world and in explaining its function and attributes. They’re often gorgeous to look at and quite educational. However, these documentaries sometimes tend to be a little on the “clinical” side, keeping viewers at something of an emotionally arm’s-length distance. But, every so often, a release comes along that pleasantly surprises…