Post Tagged with: "documentary"

Review: Like Shooting “Catfish” in a Barrel

Everything isn’t exactly what it’s thought to be, although if you’ve watched the trailer you probably have that figured out already. Because otherwise, why would this be a feature movie? Which also raises a question about the movies validity. Is it really a documentary that just happened to stumble upon something amazing, or is it a set up?

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Review: “Restrepo” is One of The Best Documentary of the Year

A documentary is the best film of 2010? Restrepo, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, is a timely slice-of-life documentary about the war in Afghanistan. Unlike most non-fiction films these days, it is completely devoid of any political statement or agenda.

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Movie Review: Hoop Dreams (1994)

Hoop Dreams, directed by Steve James, is a documentary that chronicles the lives of two young African-American high school students as they dream and aspire to become professional basketball players. Some of you may already be telling yourself that a sports documentary about basketball is not your cup of tea but hang on a minute because you don’t need to love basketball to enjoy this incredible film.

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Coming Soon: Severe Clear (2009)

A documentary about US Marines in Iraq. Oorah!

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Movie Review: Food, Inc. (2008)

Directed by Robert Kenner, Food, Inc. is a fascinating documentary shedding the light on how our food is produced. When you pick up your food at the grocery store, you see all those nicely and cleanly packaged food items but you don’t really think about where your food came from or how it was produced.

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Movie Review: Breach (2007)

Directed by Billy Ray, Breach is a docudrama based on the chain of events that lead to the arrest of spy Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who sold highly sensitive information to the Soviet Union over more than twenty years. Arrested in February of 2001, Hanssen was responsible for possibly the largest US intelligence breach [...]

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