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 ...

w it has released its full docu slate for the rest of 2015 and into the spring. Projects from Antoine Fuqua, Amy Berg and Stevan Riley, among others, tackle subjects ranging from rock’s ultimate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...