In the documentary It Might Get Loud, three rock legends, Jack White, The Edge, and Jimmy Page give accounts of their lives mastering the electric guitar.
Waylon Lewis | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
The film, inspires me -- a lazy non-cooking nacho-loving but environmentally-concerned bachelor -- to start getting active with food issues and learn to cook.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media
Just because the black guy won in November doesn't mean election fraud, voter suppression, and systematic disenfranchisement is gone.
Sandy Tolan | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Iason's detention is part a pattern of arrests and detentions of foreign reporters and Iranians working for Western news agencies.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.
John Milewski | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Journey Into America portrays the experiences of Muslim-Americans, providing much food for thought about how we think about any designated group of Americans.
Lee Schneider | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media
While there's no doubt that reality TV has created greater acceptance for true stories, there's also a flip side. The influence of reality TV has made doc film-making too cautious and literal.
Davyde Wachell | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
In our first days of casting in Tehran we met a 75-year-old dervish who asked incredulously, "Why have you come here to make a film? Imagination is illegal, creativity is illegal, life here is illegal."
Scott Mendelson | Posted 07.14.2009 | Entertainment
Ironically, since his meteoric rise to stardom after Bowling For Columbine in 2002, Michael Moore has become the kind of person liberals use as a measuring stick to distance themselves from what they feel is the 'fringe left-wing'.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Men II Boys is a new film that featuring interviews from BET journalist Jeff Johnson, Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore Ravens Tight End, Daniel Wilcox.
Brad Balfour | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
The story behind the making of this year's winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Short -- Smile Pinki -- is something of a fairy tale equal to the story within the film.
John Farr | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
The folksy Frank Perdue is long gone, my friends, but his chemically altered chickens live on! For this reason alone, Food, Inc. demands to be seen.
Karen Stabiner | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
Top Chef is moving up the status ladder next season, adding a masters chefs' competition. But what about Bottom Chef? How does a young wannabe catch a break?
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment
Coming to Cannes is usually a no-brainer. But for film-maker Anne Aghion, accepting an invitation to bring her documentary My Neighbor, My Killer was a genuine risk.
Danny Groner | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment
Kobe Doin' Work, Spike Lee's new original ESPN documentary, provides an up-close look at what Kobe Bryant thinks about and considers during an NBA game.
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Entertainment
Some people come to Cannes and do nothing but go to parties. Some people come to Cannes and never see the sun. That's me. So here are my first reactions to the four movies I saw today.
Amanda Copeland | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
We autism parents know our children. We know they can struggle for recovery and get there in varying levels of ability. But we know they can earn recovery if they just get a chance.
Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.23.2009 | Entertainment
One of the things that makes Con Artist so interesting is its search for what's behind Mark Kostabi's current act. Is there something new to his art, or its meaning?
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.18.2009 | Entertainment
Being in A Chorus Line -- a show that is not only a conceptual benchmark for Broadway musicals but the fourth longest running show of all time -- is any singer/dancer/actor's dream job.
Levi Felix | Posted 05.09.2009 | Entertainment
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band are making history as they use technology, music and film to not only entertain their fans, but to raise money for numerous causes on Causecast.
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment
I spent the weekend in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and had the great pleasure of getting to see many inspiring and thought provoking films.
Stacy Peralta | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment
The more time I spent with gang members of Bloods and Crips, the more I began to see a far different America than the America I was raised in.
James Boyce | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
Survivors of genocide have joined together and declared April "Genocide Prevention Month" and are observing the 30-day span to remember those they lost in their struggle to escape systematic extinction.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
Sinise: "It's a look at military families and military life, the Iraq war and the integrity of the people that I know that are serving that; I responded to positively and wanted to support that."
Danny Groner | Posted 04.15.2009 | Entertainment
On Thursday night I attended a screening of the documentary Tyson, set to be released later this spring. The film is an intimate look at famed boxer M...
Neal Rodriguez | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment