SYNOPSIS: With Some Kind of Heaven, first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia l…
The cinematic portrayal of an antiquarian bookseller is usually of a gray-haired old guy in a tweed jacket who grumbles whenever he is disturbed by a customer. The bookstore is musty and dim, and you …
In 2006, Vice President Al Gore used his fame to explode environmentalism into the mainstream. Using a PowerPoint slide presentation as the core of his message, he managed to explain global warning in…
There's something so unreal and ephemeral about carnivals that it's almost strange to think about them in practical terms. They appear every year with their dependable variations on rides, games, priz…
Let me start by saying, yes, I'm a member of Generation X, born smack in the middle of the generation described in the opening of this documentary series as being born between 1961 and 1981. Slacker. …
There are those of us (myself included) that may doubt that mid-century American women had the smackdown skills of, say, modern WWE entertainers. But any doubts will be laid to rest with this film—Lip…
We're all familiar with that "new" smell that accompanies Christmas morning, a birthday, or a big shopping trip. In some ways it evokes positive feelings of presents and shiny new things, but deep dow…
When a disaster as epic as Hurricane Katrina strikes, there is a period of time where we're all well aware of the scale of the devastation. One look at the news footage tells us that the place and it…
Global warming isn't funny. I've known this since elementary school, and have always been conscious about recycling, driving a fuel efficient car, etc. Even so, the trailer for The 11th Hour cracked m…
Back in 1969 when the first moon landing happened, I did watch it. I was just over a year old, but I proudly like to say that I was there! When I was a little guy, Mom says that one of my first senten…
This documentary is for anyone who is an admitted (or in-denial) Star Trek fan, or for anyone who enjoyed the movie Galaxy Quest. It's a no-frills low budget film about Star Trek fans, hosted and prod…
Imagine proposing to your girlfriend at a sporting event and having her stare at you in shock, then shake her head and walk away. This unfolds on the Jumbotron for all to see and quickly becomes a nov…
