New, epic trailer for nature documentary Watermark
Watermark is a new feature length documentary about humans’ relationships with water, and presumably with our planet on a global scale. Watermark is ...
Tag: Political
Magneto assassinated JFK…apparently
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, we learn that the mutants from the first five or so movies are being hunted down by ...
Interview: Jia Zhangke & Zhao Tao (A Touch of Sin)
Jia Zhangke has been called one of the most important filmmakers in the world by Richard Brody of The New Yorker and John ...
Uwe Boll turns to Kickstarter for Postal 2
While the internet continues its post-mortem on Spike Lee’s Kickstarter numbers, there’s another director who’s jumping into the crowdfunding fray: Uwe Boll. That’s ...
Trailers
The Wind Rises delivers new trailer and controversy
With Studio Ghibli’s The Wind Rises sitting at number one for four weeks running in Japan, and what’s sure to be a successful festival ...
Review: Our Nixon
There have been a number of documentaries in recent years that have mostly been comprised of reassembled footage as an exploration of a ...
Paul Schrader & Spike Lee may do Clarence Thomas film
I unfortunately couldn’t get to the world premiere of Paul Schrader’s new (and quite possibly schlocky) film The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan and ...
A clip from The Act of Killing on history’s winners
The Act of Killing is one of my picks for best films of 2013. It’s a disturbing and yet fascinating documentary in which ...
Reviews
Review: High Tech, Low Life
The semantic distinction some people make between “journalist” and “blogger” is pretty amusing. Many cling to one term or the other to describe ...
Reviews
HRWFF Review: Anita
Certain historical events unfold when you’re young, but you don’t even realize how important they are until you’re much older. I remember seeing ...
HRWFF Review: 99% – Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
Time to out myself: while I believe that income inequality is a serious issue, I could never get fully behind Occupy Wall Street. ...
Reviews
HRWFF Review: Fatal Assistance
The numbers of the 2010 Haitian earthquake are heartbreaking: between 220,000 to 316,000 dead, and roughly 280,000 residences and commercial buildings destroyed or ...