Cool It
- "Cool It resonates, and gives one pause not just to consider the merits of the global warming question, but to consider the merits of all that we've decided to do about it, impending doom notwithstanding."—Tim Cogshell of Box Office Magazinehttp://www.boxofficemagazine.com/reviews/2010-11-cool-it
- "Although it contributes some intriguing ideas to the ongoing global warming discussion, this potentially controversial documentary remains too vague on several key issues."—Ethan Alter of Film Journal Internationalhttp://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/specialty-releases/e3if27ea67ff5dd1c61b9143fd059a93af0
- "It can be a little hard to digest so many ideas, especially in such rapid succession. The movie is never boring, but there may be some information overload for laymen in the audience."—Randy Cordova of The Arizona Republichttp://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/movies/articles/2010/11/11/20101111cool-it-review-bjorn-lomborg.html
- "That’s not to say that Cool It doesn’t present some valuable ideas, or that it isn’t a worthwhile counterpoint to various doomsaying social-issue documentaries. But it’s merely fighting propaganda with more propaganda."—Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weeklyhttp://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2010/nov/17/documentary-cool-it-fights-propaganda-more-propaga/
updated 2010-11-22 22:12:12
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Justin Bieber Never Say Never Trailer
The theatrical trailer for Justin Bieber: Never Say Never opens with a clip of Bieber at the age of three, playing the drums on a chair in his home. Other brief video clips of Bieber playing guitar, keyboards and singing are shown as the opening notes of Bieber's song "Baby" are played. The trailer then tells viewers: "They said it would never happen. They said he would never make it. But you never stopped believing."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trpxwhiatLA
As the trailer continues, Bieber is shown performing live in concert. R&B singer Usher is shown in one clip discussing the first time the two met. Bieber also talks over a few clips, explaining that "I think to myself 'I was once chilling in my room just in a regular place and now I'm in this big world. It's just crazy how it all came around." The trailer invites viewers to "get closer" and "experience his world in 3D."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trpxwhiatLA
updated 2010-11-03 16:31:24
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Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive
The film, written and directed by Keya Morgan is currently still in production, but purportedly will take an analytical look at the days leading up to Monroe's death, Possible involvement by the CIA as well as political forces are likely to be explored.
As an anchor point for the docu-darma, the possible sequence of events that took place after Monroe was found dead are to be presented as a bizarre series of events which could have taken place at her Brentwood home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive. Several theoretical events which have not been proven nor disproven by historical fact are explored including the removal of certain items from Monroe's personal effects including her own diary and an incriminating note which is suggested as having the potential for far-reaching implications, if found. As presented in this documentary, the order for their removal was believed to have come directly from the White House.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083463/
updated 2010-07-17 14:41:45
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Will Shortz
The 2006 documentary Wordplay chronicled the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament featuring Shortz and a number of the tournament's memorable contestants. The movie featured appearances by crossword puzzle fans Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart and Mike Mussina.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492506/
Shortz has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Oprah and The Colbert Report.http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Howd-They-Do-That/5#slide He has also appeared as an expert for the "Ask the Expert" lifeline on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Shortz appeared in the November 16, 2008 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words".
He appeared on an episode of The Simpsons titled "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words", which first aired on 16 November 2008.http://www.tvrage.com/The_Simpsons/episodes/731368
Shortz appeared in the an episode of the Food Network show Dinner Impossible, challenging chef Robert Irvine to create dishes that represented English phrases for the 2009 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.http://www.foodnetwork.com/dinner-impossible/crossword-puzzle-crisis/index.html The episode first aired on May 6, 2009.
On May 10, 2010 Shortz appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother entitled Robots Versus Wrestlers, as a guest at an upscale dinner which also included Arianna Huffington and Peter Bogdanovich.http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20100405cbs02/
updated 2010-10-03 09:15:58
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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
"Even if you aren’t a Bileber, the trailer for Justin Bieber’s new documentary Never Say Never just might make you one. Imagine a feature-length Beiber filled universe with Biebs baby videos and 3D performances. While skeptics may feel a look back at Bieber’s short 16 years on earth is laughable, the power of the pop star might sway even the toughest critics."—Brittany Talarico of OK Magazinehttp://www.okmagazine.com/2010/10/watch-justin-bieber-never-say-never-movie-trailer/
updated 2010-11-23 16:49:51
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Waiting for Superman Reviews
"Exhilarating, heartbreaking and righteous, Waiting for Superman is also a kind of high-minded thriller: Can the American education system be cured?"— John Anderson, Varietyhttp://www.metacritic.com/movie/waiting-for-superman
"The movie goes right to the heart in focusing on the fates of some irresistibly real kids and the loving, frustrated parents and grandparents who care for them."— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weeklyhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20428080,00.html
"A moving and effective film whose subject may lack the hot-button boxoffice appeal of the director's "An Inconvenient Truth" but is at least a crisis practically everyone agrees actually exists."— John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporterhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/waiting-for-superman-film-review-1004061450.story
"...one of the most galvanizing documentaries I’ve ever seen."— David Edelstein, New York Magazinehttp://nymag.com/movies/reviews/68372/index1.html
"Guggenheim's insistence on not engaging with the injustices that children of certain races and classes face outside of school makes his reiteration of the obvious-that "past all the noise and the debate, nothing will change without great teachers"-seem all the more willfully naïve."— Melissa Anderson, Village Voicehttp://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-22/film/ignoring-the-inconvenient-truths-in-waiting-for-superman/
"The plentiful pop-doc touches ensure that this wake-up call won’t put you to sleep, even if the ratio of spoonfuls of sugar to medicine occasionally seems skewed."— David Fear, Time Out New Yorkhttp://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/89272/waiting-for-superman-film-review
updated 2010-09-30 20:07:14
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Documentary Film
Documentary films are non-fiction features which “document” the truth of people, places or events, rarely follow a classic narrative structure and involve real people rather than actors. Documentaries are typically made on much lower budgets than feature films and, especially during the era of Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema (1950-1970), were a direct reaction against big-budget Hollywood studios. Documentary film has seen a recent surge in popularity, with such films as Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenient Truth, March of the Penguins and Super Size Me earning as much as big-budget features at the box office.
updated 2012-05-12 22:28:51
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I'm Still Here Reviews
I'm Still Here is a 2010 documentary film about actor Joaquin Phoenix.
updated 2010-09-30 20:09:34
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Born to Be Wild Trailer
The Born to Be Wild theatrical trailer opens with narrator Morgan Freeman explaining that as our planet encroaches into the land of the wild animals, "more and more wild animals lose their families." Freeman explains that "their very existence on Earth is in danger."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41afl5fbkhs
As the trailer continues, Freeman explains that Born to Be Wild features the stories of two people who are working with wild animals to ensure their survival. Various clips of the wildlife experts rescuing and working with several baby orangutans and elephants are shown.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41afl5fbkhs
According to the film's official website, Dr. Birute Galdikas is a primatologist who works with the orangutans in Borneo, and Dame Daphne Sheldrick is an "elephant authority" who leads efforts to "rescue, rehabilitate and return" the animals back to the wilds of Kenya.http://www.imax.com/borntobewild/
