In the past couple of years, HBO has offered plenty of programming focused on the Iraq War, nearly all of them painful documentaries: Baghdad Hospital, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Alive Day Memories.
Now the network takes the narrative approach with the seven-part series Generation Kill, based on the first 40 days of the war as seen by […]
Chris Bell is a pretty unassuming guy. But in his heart of hearts, he’d rather not be. He’d prefer to be a fist-pumping, super-ripped, California-tanned, smiling superstar. But life didn’t swing that way for Chris — and his documentary on the world of performance-enhancing drugs is better because of it.
The Bell Brothers, with Chris Bell at center
Instead, Chris is […]
Lionsgate may have pushed Bill Maher’s upcoming Religulous out to the fall, but the movie’s first trailer has arrived.
I know Maher will catch heat for his smirky man-on-the-street style (aside from the heat he’ll catch for the film’s subject matter and his athiest ways), but we’re glad that’s the device for Religulous.
Maher has worked on-location interview features into the last handful of Real […]
What’s cool about this movie poster for the Hunter S. Thompson (author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) documentary is that it’s created by Ralph Steadman, the same guy who drew illustrations for Thompson’s works.
It’s a little strange that it’s in the Steadman style but not necessarily the style found in Thompson’s books — it’s more […]
First, we previewed the documentary Trumbo with a revealing poster of the blacklisted writer chilling out in his bathtub. Today we have the film’s trailer, courtesy our friends at Samuel Goldwyn Films.
You can catch Trumbo in theaters beginning June 27.
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Documentary director David Modigliani is pissed. He’s angry at the American tidal wave of political rhetoric–and the soapbox filmmaking that comes with it.
But Modigliani has actually done something about it. He’s the guy behind Crawford, an entertaining look inside the tiny Texas town the Bushes suddenly called their own. You know when the President talks about “the ranch?” You’d […]
