We’re conditioned to think of nature documentaries as educational — probably because we watch them in school
You can’t easily see a cheetah or an octopus or an eagle in the wild, at least not for very long,
Every Little Thing” (in theaters) is mostly a nature documentary, this time about hummingbirds
Even if you regularly see hummingbirds hovering around your bird feeder, the naked eye can’t really see their wings flapping because, as the film’s main human subject
It’s why we find them so enchanting, she says: “How can something fly vertical, sideways, backward and upside down and not trigger those ideas,
Masear herself is both magical and unusual. “Every Little Thing” centers on the Los Angeles Hummingbird Rescue
They come to her mostly via people who discover the birds in their yards or a park. Her hotline, both phone and text, seems very busy.
The director, Sally Aitken, unfolds the narrative gently; it’s a soothing film, even though it often deals with somber themes