[Image via Awards Daily] We hear it all the time: “The book was so much better than the movie.” It’s usually true. Filmmakers have so many storytelling devices at their disposal: beautifully composed moving images, the gift of sound, dynamic actors and clever editing, to name a few. Yet, the sum of those parts struggles to compete […]
Image via Khodorkovsky-movie.com No one ever accused Ronald Reagan of being a genius(*). So when he implored Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” he couldn’t have known what he was asking his Soviet counterpart let loose. Four years after Reagan’s speech, the detritus of Communism littered the path to a post-Soviet Russia. The decade that followed […]
I haven’t seen every single music documentary released between 2000-2010, but I have come pretty close. I’ll watch one on any band whether I’m a fan or not. Most of the time documentaries about bands I don’t really like or am completely unfamiliar with turn out to be the most interesting. Compiling this list was much harder […]