Over the past two years I wrote, produced and directed a film called “We Will Make You Whole Again” with my co-director, editor and cinematographer Trevor Hawkins of Mammoth Media. Some of you know this because a couple months back I shared the trailer for the film and told you a little bit about what [...]

Alex Gibney, the filmmaker behind Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, is back with his take on the Abramoff scandal and it seems like it’ll be illuminating…and scary. Check out this featurette… Basically…Money + Power = Problems. Especially when it comes to the upcoming financial reform legislation. Which is why I’m heartened that the [...]

I’ve been genuinely intrigued at how much fiction and reality have been intersecting recently. See, there’s this film called MOON and it follows the story of a guy working on the far side of the moon who figures out that there’s a lot more to his mission than collecting the natural resource Helium-3. It’s a [...]

This is Lagan from ANP, We sat down with James Risen, the New York Times national security corespondent who broke the domestic wiretapping stories, to talk about the dilemmas Obama faces with the unparalleled executive power he will inherit. Dick Cheney recently said that Obama would appreciate all of the power they are handing over, [...]

How did the BBC find out what happened to untold billions in Iraq, but we somehow haven’t yet? I’ll be checking this out later tonight, so I’ll have more thoughts then.

The award winning documentarian trains his patented eye on the events that happened at Abu Ghraib prison in a film coming out on April 25. From watching the following clips, as well as Frontline’s searing Bush’s War, a pretty clear picture emerges and makes it incredibly difficult for the Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to put [...]

The film Rendition was recently released on video, and if you haven’t seen it you should. It’s well told, heartbreaking and speaks to exactly why the practice of extraordinary rendition is not only inhumane but completely unjust, regardless of what the Jack Bauer crowd claims. The DVD also includes a documentary called Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, [...]

I second Sully. The thing that makes Coverfield endlessly watchable is the fact that it repackages a very political event without being political. Because what makes the story and the conceit of the “one camera perspective” so effective is 9/11. Sure, this film could be made in a pre-9/11 world, but it wouldn’t be nearly [...]

Manufacturing Dissent is a new documentary about Moore and his tendency to bend the truth to fit into his seemingly predetermined storylines. The Daily Dish reports on what it’s all about… The film was produced by two Canadian, self-described liberals, who began as fans of Moore’s movies but in the process of investigating his claims, [...]

Certainly there is a fairness problem with broadcasters, but if we look at this problem objectively, we see it cannot be solved by dealing with the broadcasters alone. The bigger problem resides in the listeners, watchers, and readers…

The following preview is for a documentary that details our incompetence in trying to rebuild Iraq . The people in it were people who were there, saw the train headed in the wrong direction and couldn’t convince our administration they were going to end up where we are today. Powerful stuff. I also found a [...]

For more on this, see my post about Sicko and how it could scuttle the health care debate.

This has nothing to do with politics, unless you count fighting Nazis as political… In any event…Indiana Jones is coming back! w00t!

As you all well know, Sicko is coming out soon and I’m holding my breath in fear. Why? Well, of course I sympathize with the notion that things need to change since so many Americans live without healthcare and are one hospital visit away from financial ruin. And as I’ve said on this blog many [...]

Let’s not even get into the fact that the movie shows planes flying into buildings. Bad taste alone should have prevented this being played INSIDE AN AIRCRAFT. Thankfully people threw a fit over this move and Virgin has subsequently reconsidered showing the pathetic ‘Loose Change 2′ movie. Find out more over at Hot Air.

The following YouTube vid is just one segment from the upcoming film Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, and it certainly makes me think of Jesus Camp. Much of this won’t come as a surprise to many of you, but I think it’s a good demonstration of what our children are being [...]

A little Saturday movie blogging. I can’t wait to see this one.

Brilliant.

I can’t wait to see this movie. How about you? UPDATE: I just saw it tonight. It’s nice! I like! But what’s truly frightening is what the character of Borat, who’s extremely racist and bigoted, brings out in the people who open up to him. Wow. If you go see it, you’ll understand. In any [...]

For all you fellow Kubrick fans…there’s this… Stanley Kubrick never threw anything away. On the other hand, he didn’t have much of a filing system, and when he moved â€â€? permanently, it turned out â€â€? from Hollywood to London in 1962, a great many things went astray. Among them was the sole copy of a [...]