Sundance Journal: ‘Dirty Wars’
Rick Rowley’s ‘Dity Wars’ was the best documentary I saw at Sundance this year. I wish that I would’ve seen more, but this one is an on-point condemnation of the abuse of military powers. The movie follows ...
Rick Rowley’s ‘Dity Wars’ was the best documentary I saw at Sundance this year. I wish that I would’ve seen more, but this one is an on-point condemnation of the abuse of military powers. The movie follows ...
I didn’t have much luck with documentaries at Sundance this year. Usually, I see a handful of great docs at the festival, but the ones I saw this year were less than stellar. That includes ‘Who Is Dayani Cristal?’...
I’ve been following the case of the West Memphis Three ever since HBO aired the first ‘Paradise Lost’ documentary in 1996. I was 15 then, and at that age, I was outraged at how the justice system in Arkansas fail...
Sundance takes great pride in its documentary competition sections – as well it should. The film festival has discovered quite a few award winners over the years.
If you found out that your (previously-unreleased) favorite movie or TV show was coming to Blu-ray, but that the disc could only have one special feature, what should it be?
DisneyNature’s releases have been hit-and-miss for me. I couldn’t make the press screening of ‘Earth‘, so imagine how pissed I was when I paid to see it and realized that it was nothing more than an extende...
What a wasted opportunity. Today is 4/20 and not a single studio thought to release a stoner comedy. I’m more shocked about that than I am about the weak movies that actually open today.
Is there any other filmmaker with the ability to make documentaries as fun as those by Morgan Spurlock? I don’t believe so. His latest film is not only solid entertainment, as usual, but also reveals a side of Spurlock that ...
I find it vaguely interesting that there are basically no love- or romance-themed movies being released on Blu-ray this Valentine’s Day (unless you’re the kind of sicko who finds ‘The Human Centipede’ roman...
It’s time for some monkey business. This week, VUDU offers up one of last year’s most acclaimed documentaries, which was inexplicably passed over by the Academy Awards and doesn’t seem to be getting a Blu-ray rel...
In all the hoopla around this week’s Oscar nominations, several highly-acclaimed films from last year were (perhaps unfairly) ignored and left completely out of the running. One of them hit Blu-ray and streaming this week. D...
Have you ever come out of a movie thinking, “So, what was the point of that?” That’s exactly what I asked my film critic friend after we got out of ‘The Ambassador’.