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Whoopi Goldberg Prepping Doc on Bad Ass Comedy Pioneer Moms Mabley

Whoopi Goldberg Prepping Doc on Bad Ass Comedy Pioneer Moms MableyMoms Mabley was born Loretta Mary Aiken 31 years after the… Read More

Post-Tsunami Japan Will Tell Its Own Stories With ‘Japan In a Day’

Fuji TV, Ridley and Tony Scott are asking that the people of Japan pick up a camera on March 11th… Read More

‘Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope’ Trailer is a Geek Celebration

The reason that Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope works is because it focuses on the very human story that’s… Read More

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Reluctant Revolutionary’ Captures the Bloody Cost of Freedom

After last year’s Arab Spring, there will undoubtedly be a host of documentaries and narrative projects with Middle Eastern revolution… Read More

Chemical Brothers Movie ‘Don’t Think’ Gets a Trailer That Erases Your Brain

Dozens of filmmakers have utilized music from The Chemical Brothers (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) for their movies, and the… Read More

Review: Werner Herzog’s ‘Into the Abyss’ Explores Living With Death

The supplementary title for Werner Herzog’s new documentary about capital punishment is “A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life.”… Read More

‘Urbanized’ Trailer Designs a City Where We All Could Live

It’s not that fonts aren’t interesting. They are. To some people. It’s that director/producer Gary Hustwit managed to make them… Read More

Culture Warrior: Enduring the Clarity and Questions Raised By ‘Shoah’

Of all the things associated with its reputation, probably the most immediately apparent aspect of Claude Lanzmann’s incredible Holocaust documentary… Read More

Summer Doc Series: Superheroes

Summer Doc Series: Superheroes“What I’m doing is more important than who I am.”The words of a man wearing a cloth skeleton… Read More