If you have any doubts about whether or not there is such a thing as “global warming”, I urge you to see An Inconvenient Truth, the new documentary by director Davis Guggenheim. You may not agree with the politics of Al Gore, but it’s hard to look at the factsContinue Reading

March of the Penguins documents the incredible journey that emperor penguins make in order to reproduce in the barren wasteland of Antarctica. The penguins leave their ocean home to walk the 70 miles to an area further inland to meet a potential mate and produce an egg. When the eggContinue Reading

What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004)

Have you ever thought about reality? What actually defines it? What makes you perceive things the way you do? If you have — or even if you haven’t — you’ll definitely be more aware after a viewing of What the Bleep Do We Know!?, a hybrid documentary/drama from Samuel GoldwynContinue Reading

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

Metallica was my favorite group of all-time between 1985 and 1990. Once their “black album” — the eponymous Metallica of 1991 — was released, the band and I had gone separate ways musically. I occasionally would listen to whatever their newest release had to offer but always seemed to findContinue Reading

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Michael Moore stirred up plenty of controversy with Bowling for Columbine in 2002. Critics chided the director for playing fast and loose with the facts and being creative with the editing of certain interviews and situations. Others lauded the film’s take on the question of why guns are such aContinue Reading

Lost in La Mancha (2002)

Terry Gilliam is known for directing films like The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and a little gem called Monty Python and the Holy Grail. For years, he wanted to make a version of the Cervantes story of Don Quixote. Gilliam’s version was called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. IfContinue Reading

I’ve always had in interest in the strange and unusual formations found in many fields all over the world. Known as crop circles — but rarely composed of just circles — these designs in wheat, corn and other fields have been attributed to drunken hoaxers, alien intelligence, collective unconsciousness andContinue Reading