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
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
To say that America is gun-crazy is an understatement. Gun culture is everywhere. As children, boys and girls will play “Cowboys and Indians.” Violent movies and violent video games are tremendously popular. Gangsta rap music, with its constant depictions of gun-toting thugs, is increasingly popular with suburban youth. Are videoContinue Reading
Trekkies exposes, in a rather humorous way, the various levels of obsession that hardcore Star Trek fans exhibit. From the woman who wore a Star Trek uniform to serve on the Whitewater jury to the woman who takes pictures of Brent Spiner (Data) and then takes pictures of her ownContinue Reading
Leon Gast’s documentary about the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is at once a documentary about one of the most important boxing matches in history as well as a look at one of the greatest boxers of all time, Muhammad Ali. It also documentsContinue Reading