Mystery of the Nile (currently playing the Cincinnati Museum Center's OMNIMAX Theater) documents the first complete journey along Africa's Blue Nile and Nile rivers, covering more than 3,000 m
To stand out from the 38,000 people attending the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, director/writer Shane Carruth, flaunts the miniscule budget of his debut film, Primer, a dark thriller about young sc
Star idolization reached a new low -- or a technical high, depending on how you look at it -- when celebrity-by-default Paris Hilton had her trusty Sidekick (a combo cell phone and PDA) hacked into a
Hotel Rwanda filmmaker Terry George has an ideal goal regarding his acclaimed drama about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists slaughtered their Tutsi neighbors. He wants to remind people
Imagine a dialogue with a feature filmmaker that only occasionally veers towards the topic of filmmaking. Over the course of 18 films ranging from School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and 25
The bloodletting, an obligatory element in all boxing stories, takes a backseat to the unforgettable heartache in director Clint Eastwood's sports melodrama, Million Dollar Baby, by far the most
The path to the 2005 Sundance Film Festival for documentary filmmaker and Wright State University graduate Selena A. Burks goes back as far as she can remember because Saving Jackie, the film tha
For French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet to come to New York City to introduce his World War I drama, A Very Long Engagement, at the American Museum of the Moving Image is something of a personal,
Pages of the Walt Disney songbook credited to sibling composers Richard and Robert Sherman include the scores for The Parent Trap and Jungle Book. Told that his greatest Disney song work -- the high
Director Betsy Chasse understands the phenomenon over her quantum-physics-meets-new-age-spirituality documentary What tHe #$*! (Bleep) Do wE (k)now!? from both sides. As Bleep's co-director and c
As a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, Craig Highberger first heard the name Andy Warhol from an uncle who went to college with the celebrity artist in the 1950s. Childhood curiosity turned to teenage
The funniest political activists you'll ever meet are Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the subjects of the hilarious, self-titled documentary by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price, t
There are two beautiful actresses in director John Duigan's sprawling period romance, Head in the Clouds, but only one of them receives the glamour treatment. Charlize Theron enjoys a gorgeous wa
The Argentinean contribution in filmmaker Walter Salles' Pan American production, The Motorcycle Diaries, about the 1952 motorcycle trip taken by a then-23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara and hi
Things are happenin, and the movies are finally addressing the news and politics that surround them. Recent documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Control Room have opened the door for hot-topic d