Hoop Dreams
November 12, 2005
For every Allen Iverson or Shaquille O’Neal that makes it to fame and fortune in the NBA, there are hundreds who don’t. Hoop Dreams (1994) is a documentary that follows two Chicago inner-city boys from their freshman year in high school to their freshman...
Wildboyz: Season 2
October 30, 2005
Tired of the over-earnestness of The Crocodile Hunter and Jeff Corwin? Those crazy Wildboyz are back for a second season filled with more snake bites and animal poop jokes than you can shake a stick at. This season is a mix of countries they visited last...
F for Fake
October 5, 2005
Made late in Orson Welles’ life, F for Fake (1972) is an odd movie. Not exactly a documentary but rather a film essay on forgeries and the nature of authorship. The movie also continues the filmmaker’s life-long fascination with magic. He performs...
Dogtown and Z-Boys
October 4, 2005
In the mid-‘70s, California was hit by a crippling drought that made it impossible to surf any kind of decent waves. The locals in an area of West Los Angeles known as Dogtown always had skateboarding to fall back on when the surfing wasn’t any good....
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
August 7, 2005
Most documentaries on musicians rarely rise above the level of an episode of VH1’s Behind-the-Music. They are either self-congratulatory puff pieces or tabloid fodder that dwells mostly on salacious aspects. Granted, the recent documentary, Dig (2004)...
The Rise and Fall of ECW
July 14, 2005
Four years after the demise of ECW and still wrestling fans chant its name through arenas worldwide. ECW! ECW! ECW! Why would they do this? Respect. This six-hour, two-disc presentation shows you how a small wrestling company based in Philadelphia gained...
Riding Giants
June 28, 2005
While the Billabong Odyssey (2003) tried to recreate The Endless Summer (1966) for the big wave surfing set, Riding Giants (2004) is much more ambitious. Fresh from the success of his documentary on ‘70s skateboarding, Dogtown and the Z Boys (2001),...
It’s All True
June 17, 2005
Fresh from the success of Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles planned to make a collection of true stories to be called, It’s All True. He never finished the movie and over the years it has gained a reputation as one of Welles’ long lost projects that...
The Office: The Complete Collection
June 2, 2005
The Office is a British TV comedy that came seemingly out of nowhere to garner enthusiastic universal critical acclaim and wide spread popularity in its home country and a devoted cult following here in the United States where it is shown regularly on...
Wildboyz: Season 1
May 18, 2005
Imagine The Crocodile Hunter mixed with the antics of Jackass and you have a pretty good idea of what Wildboyz is all about. After the demise of Jackass, Steve-O and Chris Pontius did some soul-searching and decided to become “research scientists.”...
