Articles in Documentary Movie Reviews
Renaissance Village (2008) Movie Review
Good documentaries provide the viewer with an intimate perspective of a person, place, event or period of time. A great documentary either simply educates, if unbiased, or improves social awareness by immersing people in the world being documented. Renaiassance Village, while admirable in it’s intended goal, ultimately fails to adequately tell the complete story, thereby [...]
November 30th, 2008 | Jodie Bass | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (2006) Movie Review
As the credits rolled at the end of “The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief” (2006), I immediately thought of “Leaving Las Vegas,” “The Grifters,” and “Requiem for a Dream,” three feature films that have also left me with a similar sense of numbness and depression. All of these films are about [...]
June 28th, 2008 | Bodhi Grrl | 0 Comments | Read MoreFight or Flight (2006) Movie Review
When watching documentaries there is, commonly, a great deal of material that needs to be overlooked in order to fully enjoy the film. Typically, the cinematography, the editing and a number of other purely technical aspects have to be “gotten used to” before one can completely immerse themselves in the world the storyteller is [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Jodie Bass | 2 Comments | Read MoreKing of Kong (2007) Movie Review
Every boy grows up loving videogames, whether it be the clunky arcades of the ’80s or the virtual fighters of the ’90s and beyond, but we never loved them as much as the men in “King of Kong”. My biggest commitment to videogames peaked at skipping school while in Middle School to spend the entire [...]
November 25th, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreBehind Forgotten Eyes (2006) Movie Review
Anthony Gilmore’s “Behind Forgotten Eyes” is an unendingly mesmerizing tale of cruelty, survival, and the indomitable human spirit. It is at times gut wrenching, and at other times a truly inspiration tribute to women who refuse to admit defeat, even in the face of great and impossible odds. You might think you know about the [...]
July 8th, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreDong (2006) Movie Review
“Dong” is a companion piece to Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s prize winning “Still Life”, and both played at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. Interestingly, it was this documentary which was actually planned first, with the joint project coming about after Jia was invited to the area by a painter to capture his work on film. [...]
June 3rd, 2007 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MoreManufacturing Dissent (2007) Movie Review
When Debbie Melnyk and Nick Caine, two self-proclaimed progressive liberal filmmakers, set out to make a biography celebrating Michael Moore, they began as admirers and fans. After discovering a number of otherwise unknown facts about his documentaries, however, they ended up feeling, in their own words, ‘disappointed and disillusioned’. Provocative and thoughtful, their documentary “Manufacturing [...]
April 29th, 2007 | Christiaan Harden | 2 Comments | Read MoreBukowski: Born Into This (2003) Movie Review
Unlike documentaries on musicians and even visual artists, docs focused on major literary figures are far and few in between. Of course, there are the obligatory A&E spotlights on Mark Twain and Shakespeare, but when I am scouring my online movie provider of choice and can’t find anything on Dostoevsky, I start to wonder. Is [...]
October 2nd, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read MoreHow is Your Fish Today? (2006) Movie Review
“How Is Your Fish Today?” began life as a British-commissioned Chinese documentary about Mohe, a small village in the northernmost part of China , lying on the Russian border. However, when the crew reached Mohe, a supposedly mystical town where it’s light twenty hours out of the day and the aurora [...]
August 31st, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 Comment | Read MoreSarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) Movie Review
It really pays to be born a woman with a genotype predestined for phenotypic cuteness; that is, if you are misfortunate enough to have to be born at all. What can’t they get away with saying? Who is going to persecute them? Men? An attractive woman could call almost any man by his racial slur-name [...]
August 25th, 2006 | Zan | 0 Comments | Read More
Great news I'm looking forward to this one. 
youre welcome bmmb! The movie is gonna be great i hope they have a baby! 
ugh, someone send this guy(michael gonzalez) a keylogger or trojan. please. 
i dont thinkhe is that ugly! Now come ondont be so mean! and i repect your thoughts that was pretty ...
I love james even though he is the bad guy in the movie !! he plays his part very well ...
