Movie Review: "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's"

Rating: PG-13Length: 93 minutesRelease Date: May 3, 2013Directed by: Matthew Miele Genre: DocumentaryStars: 3 out of 5The viewers who are most likely to love director Matthew Miele's documentary are the same people who enjoy flipping through glossy fashion magazines. This...

Watch Sirius Documentary 2013

The Earth has been visited by advanced Inter-Stellar Civilizations that can travel through other dimensions faster than the speed of light. What we have learned from them about energy propulsion can bring us to a new era, but those in power have suppressed this...

Movie Review: Koch

Rating: NR (Not Rated) Length: 100 minutes Release Date: Oct. 8, 2012 Directed by: Neil Barsky Genre: Documentary/Biography/HistoryStars: 2 out of 5 For years, mayors of even the largest cities in the country were mostly unknown beyond their constituents. In today's era of...

Movie Review: Sound City

Rating: Unrated Length: 116 minutes Release Date: Jan. 18, 2013 Directed by: Dave Grohl Genre: Documentary and musicStars: 4 out of 5 The film "Sound City" is a documentary on the Sound City Studios located in Van Nuys, California. The documentary was written by Mark ...

Movie Review: $ellebrity

Rating: NR Length: 89 minutes Release Date: January 11, 2013 Directed by: Kevin Mazur Genre: DocumentaryStars: 2 out of 5 "$ellebrity" dives headfirst into the world of celebrity fame and photography. Detailing the intricate relationship between celebrities and their...

Movie Review: "West of Memphis"

Rating: R (For disturbing violent content and some language) Length: 147 minutes Release Date: January 21, 2012 Directed by: Amy Berg Genre: DocumentaryStars: 3 out of 5 If "West of Memphis" could be summarized in a few words, it could be described as an examination of a...

Documentary Film "My Herzl"

Friday 4-1-2013 I sat with hundreds of other spectators at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and watched a preview screening of the documentary film "My Herzl" directed by Eli Tal El. David Matlaw, who envisioned and initiated the film, also attended. He has a collection of about...

Movie Review: Let Fury Have the Hour

Rating: NR Length: 100 minutes Release date: Dec. 14, 2012 Directed by: Antonino D'Ambrosio Genre: Documentary/Biography/HistoryStars: 3 out of 5 "Let Fury Have the Hour" can be seen as a forecast of the next generation of artists spawned in the wake of the Occupy movement....

Best Documentaries of 2012

The genre of documentary continues to gain traction in widespread, longtail audience appeal, versus Hollywood films. The Toronto HotDocs festival - perhaps the leading documentary festival in the world - recently put out a twitter call for people's favourite docs of the year....

In 2013, "Lady Gaga: The documentary"

2012 is not over yet and we already have a scoop of Lady Gaga for 2013. The Mother Monster announced to all monsters that she is filming a documentary about her life and her career in which, probably, will not...

Movie Review: High Ground

Rating: UR (Unrated) Length: 92 minutes Release Date: Aug. 2012 Directed by: Michael Brown Genre: DocumentaryStars: 2 out of 5 Don Hahn, the man who produced the award winning films "The Lion King," Beauty and the Beast," and the documentary "Chimpanzee," has done it...

Movie Review: Brooklyn Castle

Rating: PG (some language) Length: 101 minutes Release Date: Oct. 19, 2012 Directed by: Katie Dellamaggiore Genre: DocumentaryStars: 3 out of 5 Some documentaries are made to inform the public about some kind of issue facing the nation or world. Others tell a true tale of a...

Movie Review: The Waiting Room

Rating: No rating Length: 81 minutes Release Date: September 26, 2012 Directed by: Peter Nicks Genre: DocumentaryStars: 3 out of 5 "The Waiting Room" is an intense documentary about the troubles of America's health care system. Focused on a day at an overworked Oakland ...

"How to Make Money Selling Drugs": A Lucrative Business with Deva

The documentary "How to Make Money Selling Drugs" has been aptly described as a movie detailing ten steps for making money with drugs. While this description is not off the mark, there is more to the documentary than the title suggests. Directed by Matthew Cooke (producer...

Tackling concussion in sport head on

Professional sports players are often required to put their bodies on the line for the sake of their team. This is true for a number of sports, with the most common being football, soccer, and hockey. Suffering injuries is part and parcel of any sport and most players ...

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