2006, Not Rated
This transfixing documentary has an odd construction. It's ostensibly about the meticulously composed panoramic photographs that Edward Burtynsky takes of the world's landscapes
1989, Rated PG-13
Movie-going is inherently voyeuristic. Its processes mimic the actions of the Peeping Tom: turn down the lights, keep quiet, watch, repeat. Unlike unsuspecting victims of the vo
1986, Not Rated
One of the weirdest movies ever and a cult object because of it, this 1986 deadpan satire about a married, upper-middle-class diplomat's wife (Charlotte Rampling) who has a love
2006, Not Rated
With the writer's strike in full swing, the final season of Scrubs will likely come to resemble My Funny Frankenstein, the concluding comic series based on creating a semblance o
2007, Not Rated
This is a cool show that surprisingly doesn't get the love that other similar shows seem to get in the popular entertainment media. Many people are familiar with how the ancient
1977, Not Rated
African-American independent filmmaker Charles Burnett receives long-overdue recognition with this regal two-DVD set of his prime works, most notably his masterpiece Killer of She
1963-65, Not Rated
By filming the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 through 1965, director Murray Lerner was able to record and preserve Bob Dylan's astonishing growth from a protest singer (1963
2006, Not Rated
This ABC ensemble series enjoyed a brief two-season run -- really no more than a season due to its initial start as a midseason replacement in 2006 and it's shortened "second"
2007, Rated PG-13
Like our current government, the American health care system is in a serious state of decline. Its initial purpose seems to have gone astray: No longer does it provide for those
2006, Not Rated
Korean auteur Kim Ki-Duk (Bad Guy and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring) digs into modern society's obsession with beauty and the supposed attainment of perfection throug
1977, Not Rated
The hipsters haven't rediscovered Captain & Tennille the way they have the Carpenters, and perhaps with good reason. Unlike the shy, melancholy Karen Carpenter, Toni Tennille is
2006, Rated R
George A. Romero butts heads with Douglas Sirk in this bizarre but endearing horror/comedy. In the years following zombie wars which pitted man against hordes of hungry undead, the
2004, Rated R
Michael Moore might find it ironic that another Midwestern documentarian named Michael (in this case Michael Wilson) decided to tilt at windmills a bit in a quixotic quest to interv
2006, Not Rated
As they did with Lisa Kudrow's great but ill-fated The Comeback, wrong-headed TV critics attacked the daring Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin's knowing, brainy and fa
2000, Not Rated
The horrific realities of the African slave trade are exposed alongside the conflicted drama of a young man's life in this illuminating and haunting Ivory Coast/Surinam/Switzerla