TIFF Journal: ‘Rats’
Morgan Spurlock has made quite a few notable stunt documentaries over his career, but none have come close to capturing attention or imagination quite like ‘Super Size Me’. However, his latest confection, ‘Rats...
Morgan Spurlock has made quite a few notable stunt documentaries over his career, but none have come close to capturing attention or imagination quite like ‘Super Size Me’. However, his latest confection, ‘Rats...
It was only a matter of time before someone made a concert film about One Direction, but I never could have guessed it would be Morgan Spurlock, the guy who gave us the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Supersize Me’ and th...
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 ...
Once again, we have another underwhelming weekend. My guess is that studios still don’t want to go head-to-head with ‘The Hunger Games’. Can we hurry up and get into May already? I’m antsy for ‘The Av...
Indie movies dominate the Blu-ray scene this week, with a special emphasis on indie movies from the mid ’90s about gambling. What a strange niche to fill all of a sudden.
Easter weekend moviegoers went for the birds again, as ‘Rio’ was the number one film for the second week in a row. I thought that maybe ‘Hop’, the movie about the mischievous, rock ‘n roll-playing Eas...
Since I’m always looking for ways to frame the weekend movie brawl, when I see two movies that have jungle animals in the title, well, it’s pretty easy. It looks like things really should come down to Fox’s ̵...
Morgan Spurlock is a genuine rarity in the documentary film field: a celebrity. His whole shtick, since his breakout ‘Super Size Me’, has been to put himself in uncomfortable positions and let the audience watch him sq...
Highlighting movies coming to the Netflix stream as well as those leaving makes this list a lot less depressing. In fact, things look pretty promising, even if some of the movies we’re losing this week are incredibly good.
In the excitement leading up to the Academy Awards, it’s easy to get caught up in all the drama about… well, dramas. But Oscar season is also a good opportunity to shine a light on some of the lesser-seen movies of the year ...
[Editor’s Note: With this post, High-Def Digest Blu-ray reviewer Aaron Peck joins us here at The Bonus View blog. Among other things, Aaron will be contributing some film festival coverage, starting this month at Sundance. I...