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 (1997)

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

When We Were Kings (1996)

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