He Named Me Malala documentary review: teach your children well
A charming film — Yousafzai is as endearing and funny as she is ambitious and brave — but also one with a vital message: how we raise kids matters.
Davis Guggenheim
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
labor troubles on ‘The Hobbit’; Twitter effect doesn’t exist; terror nerds and outspoken bombshells; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
trailer break: ‘Waiting for ‘Superman’’
Education in the United States sucks. But worrying about it is left to lefty progressive documentary filmmakers in niche arthouse films. WTF?
‘Inception’ attacks ‘X-Men: First Class’; pushing back against 3D; Lisbeth Salander does not eat pray love; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused…
An Inconvenient Truth documentary review: Category 5 storm warning
Forget everything you knew about the old, stiff, wonky Al Gore. The man is on fire. Oh, and so is our planet.
