In 'Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,' Nicholas Wrathall creates an entertaining, well thought out and succinctly edited documentary. Wrathall cobbles together snippets from video archives, and interview clips and masterfully reveals what made Vidal who he is and how he engendered the vital purpose of his writing and sardonic, pithy commentary: to awaken us from our amnesia.
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Movie Review: ‘Million Dollar Arm’
Million Dollar Arm: a swing and a miss.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: Short Film Program – ‘App’
'App' was one of five films in the short program entitled Handle With Care at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Godzilla’ (2014)
Godzilla is still “King of the Monsters”
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Virunga’
'Virunga' in its World Premiere is the most powerful, beautiful and stirring of the documentaries to come out of Tribeca Film Festival.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Neighbors’ (2014)
Makes 'Old School' look old school.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Silenced’
Silenced directed by James Spione is a documentary about three brave whistleblowers Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou who exposed governmental wrongdoing and paid a heavy price for bringing the truth to the light of day.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Blazing Saddles: 40th Anniversary Edition’
Warner Bros. is excused for whipping out this double-dip.
Read More »Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' keeps the hope alive that this trilogy will not dive bomb like that last one.
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival: ‘1971’
During the height of the Viet Nam War, 8 individuals broke into an FBI office and took hundreds of files. They created a media firestorm and disrupted the war machinery proving the government was massively spying on its own citizens in violation of the constitution. Who were these brave Americans? '1971' is a revelation and true account of why ordinary citizens did the extraordinary to safeguard a republic they believed in.
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