American Movie
The first time I saw American Movie was sort of like the first time I saw This Is Spinal Tap. I didn’t get it. I didn’t see the humor, I didn’t understand the point, and I was just plain ol’ bored....
View ArticleLost in La Mancha
Terry Gilliam is one strange dude. His films run the gamut from entertaining to head-scratching to cerebral to just plain nut-job. He’s not exactly a household name, though chances are most people...
View ArticleLord, Save Us from Your Followers
In this age of digital movie making, instant YouTube publishing, and homebrew editing software that anyone can use, I’m starting to wonder just what qualifies a work of film as a documentary. In the...
View ArticleThe Other F Word
It’s not often that a documentary really gets to me on a personal level, mostly because it’s hard for me to separate the filmmaker from the film. Take, for example, any of Michael Moore’s creations in...
View ArticleObama’s Amercia 2016
Remember those pictures that were so popular back in the 1990s called Hollusions? The first time you walked up to one, all you saw was a field of dots sprayed on a piece of paper, like snow on a TV...
View ArticleRunaway Slave
By now, everybody and their dog is familiar with the series The Walking Dead on AMC, so you’ve probably seen the part where Rick Grimes rides into Atlanta, only to find it full of dilapidated corpses,...
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