British TV documentarian Louis Theroux is a very clever chap. He obviously realised that the Alex Gibney documentary Going Clear was going to be the Big Boy of Scientology feature docos for quite awhile. Hence the title My Scientology Movie, which is tongue in cheek, certainly, but also implies a different tack and a different take – both…
DetailsRon Howard’s documentary unfortunately contains little that was not done better in the epic television documentary The Beatles Anthology (1995) and nothing that will be revelatory to Beatles fans of any level. What’s being touted is new footage, and there is that. I’d never seen, for example, footage from concerts in Manilla and Tokyo, and that stuff…
DetailsThe original film, The Blair Witch Project, back in 1999, was quite the phenomenon. There was so much secrecy and seemingly well-timed leaks of info that it became mythological in scope before it ever hit theaters. I remember a friend of mine telling me about it, meeting me at a friends place, and telling me…
DetailsHere we are at another week of kooky new form the world of film! And maybe some other stuff if I deem it worthy! In this week’s “Speculate much?” story, will Blair Witch knock Sully from the top box office spot this weekend? I don’t fucking know. Why don’t you all decide to see one…
DetailsThe 35th feature film directed by Clint Eastwood, Sully, like much of his latest work, is a highly proficient, professional, refreshingly unsentimental procedural about men. (It hasn’t always been this way; Changeling (2008) , Million Dollar Baby (2004) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995) are examples of his helmsmanship of solid female-led dramas.) The workplace in this case is not…
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