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I love parrots to the point of distraction, so I’m probably not the most objective person to be saying this, but: If you have never seen *The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,* you simply must. And now, this acclaimed 2003 film is available in a new DVD set that is the rare ‘collector’s edition’ that actually feels worthy of the label.
Hey, prostitutes are people too, okay?
It’s an entry in the ongoing series ‘Starz Inside’ that the cable network Starz likes to label ‘documentary,’ but this one, at least, feels exactly like the kind of promotional filler you find filling up odd scheduling holes on premium movie channels (it’s suspiciously 59 minutes in length).
Like much of what we see in the documentary genre these days, Irena Salina’s messily impassioned exposé of the world water crisis will, by dint of its arthouse release trajectory, bypass those not already in the know…
Some documentaries change how you see the world. Some change how you see yourself. *Trouble the Water,* astonishingly, does both, and does both better then more you suspect yourself in no need of any eye-opening.
The Nazi Channel When you think “early television,” you think Ernie Kovacs and The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow and I Love Lucy and quiz scandals and Rockefeller Center and the NBC peacock and doctors endorsing cigarettes. Turns out, though, that the 1950s were not the beginning of TV as a mass medium: that … more…
If you need any more proof that a movie like *Swing Vote* is complete balderdash, with its fantasy about getting couch potatoes out to the polls as the cure-all for what ails America, then here is it.
Does life change after high school, or is it just more of the same old shit? Seems to me it must be a little bit of both…
It’s apeshit crazy nuttiness right from the opening moments of *Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed*…
You may not have heard of live-action role-playing gamers, who enact the battles and intrigues of imaginary fantasy realms. This engaging film introduces us to some of those fantasists…
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