• December 27, 2012
• At Home, Documentary

When you think of Disney, you probably place the words drama, tragedy, betrayal, and triumph in the context of their films and associate them with lion kings, little mermaids,...

• December 26, 2012
• At Home, Documentary

Unknown White Male follows an extremely rare medical case of amnesia, yet the idea of the film ends up being more interesting than the film itself. Doug Bruce, a...

• May 1, 2010
• At Home, Documentary

OK, I love Werner Herzog. He can literally do anything, from dramatic narrative films like Rescue Dawn with Christian Slater, to documentaries that range from quirky (Encounters at the...

• October 28, 2009
• At Home

There is something ironic about a full-spectacle production with no audience – just a smattering of stage hands and dancers clapping enthusiastically from the empty stadium floor. Was that...

• March 15, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

Documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein followed a handful of high-school seniors for their last year of school in small-town Warsaw, Indiana. With gossip, crushes, rejection, peer pressure, and bad skin,...

• October 17, 2008
• At Home

Spear-headed by Roy Disney, the film centers on 15 twentysomethings, who are recruited to train for an elite, 2500-mile open-ocean sailing race (California to Hawaii) called the TransPac. With...

• October 16, 2007
• At Home, Documentary

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...

• April 29, 2007
• At Home

The last few years have produced some stellar nature documentaries that have, incredibly (and impressively), made a big splash in the mainstream. Anything from penguins (March of the Penguins)...

• April 20, 2007
• At Home, Documentary, Western

I became a fan of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) on a rainy Sunday a few years ago when I happened to catch it on TV while parked on...

• February 19, 2007
• At Home, Documentary

Are you an oldish American man with no social skills looking to marry a young, vivacious Mexican woman? Well, Ivan Thompson is the man for you. For a mere...

• November 1, 2006
• At Home, Documentary

If anything, it offers a character portrait of one man who is not afraid to stand on his own pedestal and shake his liberal fist at conservative pundits and...

• September 8, 2005
• At Home, Documentary

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...