Let’s get one thing straight right up front: I’m not a political enthusiast. Oh, sure, I happily participate in the democratic process, and before that participation takes place, I make a concerted ...

Presidents, lawmakers and other Beltway bigwigs make worthy and sometimes even fascinating subjects for documentary films — except when they don’t, which happens a lot in a genre we’ll call ...

Barney Frank is such a colorful figure, he seems like a natural biographical subject. Yet “Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank” is a little too disjointed to fully do justice to ...

Barney Frank (left) and Jim Ready were married in July 2012. Their relationship is featured in the Showtime documentary "Compared to What?" Michael Chandler/Showtime Former Congressman Barney Frank ...

Watching Friday night’s Showtime documentary about Barney Frank, the rumpled, blustery, and witty former congressman from Massachusetts, it’s extremely tempting to cast a scripted version of his life ...

Earlier today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, Showtime announced that its inside-the-CIA documentary The Spymasters will bow in November. No w it has released its full docu ...