Dark Days — Literal Notes from the Underground
It’s believed that thousands of people live below the streets of New York City, inhabiting the shoulders and gullies of the labyrinthine subway. Those pounding…
Documentaries
What Khodorkovsky May Teach Us about Nation (Re)Building
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…
If a Tree Falls — Be Thankful Squirrels Can’t Use Lighters
…in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? This century-old philosophical thought experiment is often conducted to…
Hell and Back Again — An Erased Sense of Purpose
Similar to last year’s Restrepo, this year’s Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, Hell and Back Again, looks at the trials and tribulation within the…
Into the Abyss — Disordering Order
Warner Herzog’s newest documentary Into the Abyss is less about whether capital punishment should exist and more about why it does. Herzog’s opinion on lethal…
You Can Touch Us. We’ve Seen the Steve Jobs Movie
It is difficult to say anything about Steve Jobs that has not already been said. Unless, perhaps, you are Steve Jobs. And you are talking…
The Interrupters: A Film about People Who Give a F**k
We open on a large, oak conference table parked in the center of a board room in Chicago. Black and Brown faces huddle around it…
Inside Job – The Dangers of Greed, Symbols, and Ratings
I can’t help but think that Inside Job won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary on the basis that director Charles Ferguson should have…
Life in a Day – A Movie in a Sentence
(image via AceShowbiz.com) Remember when the internet asked people to turn on their video cameras and record the events of a single day of their lives?…
Burning Man – To Be or Not to Be a Terrorist
(image via Woodland Trust) 1995 offered numerous options for the American kid who preferred outrage over sloth. There were corporate scumbags in America to loathe….