Wow, what a year. This is turning out to be the slowest year for me for movies in quite a long time. Life has thrown me a couple of curveballs of late and I’ve knocked the crap out of a number of them leaving me very little time for the movie theater. The result is […]
This weekend I found myself with friends who wanted to see the new art house documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty. The film tells the story of the fall rise and—we’re not sure—of Disney‘s animation department during the 80’s and 90’s. The film picks up just as Walt Disney‘s son-in-law is about to be shown the door […]
This weekend I got in another round of seeing two movies. The first one up was Michael Moore‘s latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story. I’ve been a fan of Michael’s movies and unlike many of my conservative friends, who go to great lengths to disparage them, I’ve actually seen them. I must say that I […]
Last night my friend Dave and I headed off to the theater to see the documentary Food, Inc. Filmmaker Robert Kenner gives us a tour of the nation’s food industry in hopes of exposing elements most consumers have been kept from knowing. Food, Inc. has an altruistic goal from the outset of the film. It starts by […]
The next film on my list is earth, the first movie in what we’re told will be a series from Disneynature. earth is a typical look at our world’s habitats and various animals. It’s narrated by the ever-wonderful James Earl Jones. My biggest issue with the movie is its own billing, “earth tells the remarkable story […]
The second movie of the week is Bill Maher‘s Religulous. Maher has made a career out of questioning religion in all forms and Religulous is his attempt to bring that question to the masses. This one is pretty much as I expected. I’m a big fan of Maher but he tends to rant on some subjects and […]
The other movie of the week is a bit different. It’s Slacker Uprising—the latest film from documentary luminary Michael Moore. This one is available now, for free, to watch online. Moore released this to everyone as a 20th anniversary present for his first movie, Roger and Me. It’s probably all the same that he did it […]
I nearly forgot to mention one of the better movies I’ve seen this year. It’s been a busy week so I didn’t have time to write that my son and I saw Man on Wire last week. This is a documentary that you really need to want to see to find it. It was only playing […]
The next movie on my hit list is the documentary Encounters at the End of the World. This is a movie about life at the South Pole’s McMurdo station. When I say that, I mean it more than you probably take it. The movie touches all aspects of just how boring life can be there […]
We hit the local theater on Friday night and were met with a sight I haven’t seen there ever before. There were kids packed all over the outside of the theater. The strange part about that is that this theater had always been an adult venue primarily. Clearly they were all there to see Kung […]
Been off to a slow start this year with respect to movies. Not a lot has interested me so far and the few I’ve seen have been from last year. This Friday a bunch of us got together to see U2 3D. This film is pretty much a musical concert featuring the internationally famous U2 […]
Just the other night we decided to check out the documentary No End in Sight which is all about the Iraq war. My biggest problem with it is that it never lives up to its name. It’s much more about a retelling of how we got to where we are than in telling us why […]