Filmmakers of a doc about competitive endurance tickling videos are in hot water — -- Competitive endurance tickling. Not only is it a real thing, but there’s a market for videos of people being ...

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Last year’s SIFF non­fiction division featured a semi-serious documentary, “Do I Sound Gay?,” that explored gay stereotypes and their impact. An engaging and constantly surprising New Zealand ...

David Farrier had built a career on the strange. As an entertainment reporter in New Zealand, he became the country’s go-to source for weird and wacky entertainment. Then a friend sent him a peculiar ...

Even though the ad for the movie “Tickled” says, “It’s not what you think,” New Zealand director David Farrier admits that most viewers have the wrong impression about the film before they see it.

HBO and Magnolia Pictures documentary “Tickled” — which focuses on the bizarre world of “competitive endurance tickling” — has provoked another lawsuit by David D’Amato, son of late New York insurance ...

A new documentary explores the dark underbelly of an offbeat subculture Competitive endurance tickling sounds like a quirky amateur sport dreamed up by either a six-year-old or some college kids with ...

SALT LAKE CITY (CN) – The son of late legal giant George D’Amato claims in court that the indie film “Tickled” defamed him in its tale of “competitive endurance tickling.

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Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Competitive endurance tickling sounds like a quirky amateur sport dreamed up by either a six-year-old or some college kids with ...