Almost immediately upon putting it in my laptop (what, I was sleepy) it because obvious how The Boys of Baraka came to be in my Netflix queue. It’s about at-risk youth in inner city….BALTIMORE! Yeah! It’s like season 4 of The Wire in real life! Only, not really. The Boys of Baraka is actually a [...]
I am so excited to see EARTH. Yay! Parade of cuteness! Narrated by Patrick Stewart! Darth Vader!
A Screening of 3 Short Films at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. (1) Documentary about some guy who built some crazy instrument. Documentary consists of black and white digital interview that occasionally zooms in just on his eyes because that’s ‘artistic.’ Second half of documentary is silent footage of said guy while he plays [...]
On a whim, I found myself at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend. It’s a weird scene, like everyone that you bump into on Beverly Drive between 1 & 2 PM just decided to buy a puffy jacket and a scarf and head off to Utah. Like everyone’s all makeup’d with straightened hair and sunglasses [...]
Ok, maybe I’m on some totally misogynistic kick because like, my estrogen levels are depleted or something crazy, but once again, I hated this totally woman-centric ‘documentary’: Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project. So, the movie was actually made by a couple of dudes (if I’m remembering right, because IMDb sure doesn’t know) but it’s about this [...]
New York Doll Directed by Greg Whiteley, New York Doll is a documentary about Arthur “Killer” Kane, one of the founding members and bassist for seminal punk band, the New York Dolls. It seems that after the Dolls broke up, Kane was in a pretty bad state. Hopelessly alcoholic and without any real direction, he [...]
Ira Glass basically forced me to watch How’s Your News? because he talked about it for a while on This American Life about a thousand years ago when I could still podcast. So I got it from Netflix and it sat on top of my DVD player for 2 or 3 weeks until I tried to [...]
Fact: A humanitarian crisis is ravaging Darfur and it totally sucks. Fact: I fell asleep during Darfur Now. Fact: It is not a cool phenomenon, but Janjaweed is a really cool word. Its definition is “Devil on Horseback” which is also pretty bitchin’. Sorry, it is! Fact: The Spanish prosecutor for war crimes from the [...]
Top Ten Things that pissed me off about the screening of this I went to at Grauman’s 10. It started late. 9. The Netflix Original Content chick who introduced it and seemed like she had never held a microphone. Ok, I should cut her slack because she was probably really nervous. It was annoying though. [...]
An Inconvenient Truth? More like An Inconvenient Snooze! But seriously, Global Warming Is A Serious Issue And We Should All Curb Our Carbon Emissions, Etc. This movie had a lot of really nice graphics and was very informative and educational but Al Gore’s even-keeled southern drawl put me right to sleep. Also, I wrote a [...]