Documentaries tell us who we are, what our world is about, and give us the truth. But more and more these filmmakers find themselves, especially in the US, attacked by layer upon layer of lawsuits funded by corporations with deep pockets.
It's rare to find anyone who cheerfully admits to liking attorneys.
On May 6, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, the mind behind Super Size Me and Pom Wonder...
In theaters this month is a pair of amusing documentaries, an Oscar nominee, and the latest drama from a world-class filmmaker. Any time there are five pictures this good playing on theater screens, I take heart.
For the next two months, a lucky group of Pennsylvania residents will be able to call themselves Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold-...
A white male, 25-54 years old, middle class and clean shaven, stands at a Sheetz gas pump, eating a fresh Sheetz sandwich and filling his car with rel...
The suit is by Ted Baker of London and Morgan Spurlock owns three copies: charcoal gray, nicely fitted, festooned with lavishly embroidered logos of h...
I get the joke about Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. I wish it was a little funnier -- or more pointed. It's provocative; it could be more so.
After garnering 22 percent of more than 500,000 online votes, Brian Sheets, a firefighter from Orlando, FL, who founded a mustache-based charity, was ...
Alex Gibney's film makes the case is that, while Spitzer absolutely did the things he admitted, he was the target of right-wing-powered federal investigations into relatively minor tax infractions.
The American Mustache Institute (AMI) has announced the 19 finalists and opened voting for the "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year,...
As anthology films go, Freakonomics is an entertaining -- if occasionally scattershot -- documentary. But then, that was the nature of the book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, upon which the film was based.
I spoke to Gordon about applying Freakonomics, working with a group of celebrated documentarians, films that changed Gordon's life, and matters concerning Donkey Kong and the scripted remake of the King of Kong that is in the works.
The film version of the massive bestseller "Freakonomics" is coming to
the big screen--after it comes to the computer screen.
In a move that is consi...
Morgan Spurlock is nursing a super-size grudge against Harvey Weinstein. At a recent dinner party hosted by the Atlantic's dashing blond president, Ju...
"The Simpsons" celebrated its 20th anniversary last night, and the show's 450th episode was followed by a retrospective directed by Morgan Spurlock. T...
"It's pure journalistic olestra. The consistent barrage of 'first 100 days'-related news goes through people so quickly that their heads and now their bodies are unable to properly absorb or digest it all."
Morgan Spurlock tends to live his life in terms of extremes. For his first documentary, 2004's Super Size Me, the filmmaker notoriously ate nothing bu...
With about as much documentary credibility as "Borat," "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?" combines low comedy, high production values and the Mi...