Equal parts sci-fi as it is experimental film, Beyond the Black Rainbow is an odd trip down movie memory lane, taking you back to the drug fueled cinema of ...
Documentary director Billy Corben is in the midst of a prolific 2011. The Cocaine Cowboys director premiered his marijuana doc Square Grouper: The Godfather...
After seeing Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony, the feature documentary that earned Lee Hirsch awards and acclaim at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, I was intrigued to hear he had a new documentary. This film is The Bully Project, an honest, eye-opening glimpse into our country’s bullying crisis....
Aside from hearing a few singles, I have never gotten into the Tennessee-born band Kings of Leon, much less know about their history. With his debut Talihin...
Films filled with tragedy are often in high supply at festivals like Tribeca. These noble independent efforts dealing with grief, mourning, and the repercus...
I’ve been closely following the Tyler Perry phenomenon, before the film adaptation of Diary of a Mad Black Women. His signature character Madea has achieved...
For fans of Once, The Swell Season serves as a bittersweet epilogue to the adored Irish indie. Those who saw more than just onscreen romance blossom between...
ESPN Films presents a documentary detailing the story of Dr. Renée Richards (formerly Dr. Richard Raskind) a trailblazing transsexual who took the tennis wo...
With his new release, Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden) fans can rest assured that POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (from now on referred to as TGMES) remains true to his style, packing an informative, entertaining punch. Without revealing too much of the context, there is a moment within the film that Morgan has his personality analyzed, and it is presented back to him as being a balanced combination of playful and thoughtful. It is these same two descriptors that I could apply to any one of his films, and perhaps because he is able to remain so true to his own nature and curiosity, he is continuously successful....
Water for Elephants, on paper, should be a tedious film: an adaptation of a best-selling novel (by Sara Gruen) that cuts pages into hours via surface level id...
