Hiroshi Ishiguro (professor at Osaka University and visiting director at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) travels the world, speaking on the merits of a future robot-filled society, while his accompanying doppleganger rides divided into two checked bags (legs and torso) and one piece of carry-on luggage (the head).

A legendary improviser and coach gets some overdue acknowledgement in Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon.

Memories of his rough childhood propelled Robert Oelman into a quarter century as a psychologist, but he was frustrated. Were his patients getting better? Was he getting better? There had to be more.

First things first: big data will not choose the next president. The electorate will. Or the mob. Or whoever gets their butts to the voting stations and actually, y’know, votes.

Apart, they are Brian Knox (a talented engineer), Shari McCollough (a loving homemaker), and Brian Caraker (a gifted singer.) But together, they’re even more. They’re Chicken People – the subjects of Nicole Lucas Haimes’ first feature documentary, and folks after my own crazy, chicken-lady heart.

Society is obsessed with killers. Serial, spree, mass; their names are common currency, like listing them off will give an insight into their crimes. Tower, the revolutionary documentary on the 1966 UT Tower shootings, puts the murderer out of frame, instead focusing on the survivors and victims.

Nelson George is amongst the last of something not quite fingered, because of the altering perceptions of space and time around the beginnings of hip-hop. The incredibly accomplished critic/columnist/author/filmmaker was at the forefront of a movement, scribe to early hip-hop’s pied pipers.

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are best known for escalating one-joke sketch comedy, typically riffing on race and black identity in America.

A high-concept study in faith made blasphemous with toxic humor, Little Sister is the new film from director Zach Clark.