Documentary filmmaking is at its most effective when it finds a way to both educate and entertain. Bringing real people and places to the big screen in service to a message is important, but the reality is that if an audience isn’t engaged – isn’t entertained – that message may well go unheard, no matter how important it is or how skillfully relayed.

It has been a long time since I saw a documentary that so successfully struck that balance as “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution.” Currently streaming on Netflix, the film – directed by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham – tells the story of a summer camp for the disabled back in the early 1970s and the huge impact some of those campers would ultimately have in the decades-long fight for civil rights for the disabled.

It’s no surprise that the film is good – it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and actually won the Audience Award – but I wasn’t prepared for HOW good it was going to be. This is a razor sharp, poignant and wickedly funny film, one that delves deep into a part of our nation’s history that is likely unfamiliar to many. It has as colorful a cast of characters as you could hope to find, as well as a message of struggle and speaking truth to power that resonates just as fully today as it did when the story it tells unfolded.

TV comedy writer Bill Oakley knows a thing or two about fast food. Best known for his work on The Simpsons during the show’s 1990s golden era, Oakley’s classic “steamed hams” sequence, involving show characters Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers, was a highlight of the 1996 envelope-pushing episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” and has been the subject of countless internet memes in recent years.

Oakley says his favorite hobby is reviewing new fast food and snack items for his Instagram feed and has just announced his picks for the best and worst fast food items of the past year in his latest edition of the Steamie Awards.