 | | 1. An Inconvenient Truth | | | Starring: Al Gore Director: Davis Guggenheim | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/21/2006 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | An Inconvenient Truth - DVD By: Rafe Telsch - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 11/21/2006 2:43 AM | | The concept of global warming is nothing new to me. I grew up in a part of the country surrounded by flower-child communes dedicated to returning to a more natural way of life to help save the planet. Somehow, hearing about the risks of global warming from the former Vice President of our country carries a lot more weight than hearing about it from people who preferred to bathe in their own sweat rather than water and smelled distinctly of marijuana most of the time. read the full review | |
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 | | 2. This Film Is Not Yet Rated | | | Director: Kirby Dick | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/8/2007 | | This Film Is Not Yet Rated - DVD By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/12/2007 5:00 PM | |
When South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker made Orgazmo, a romp about a Mormon porn star, and submitted it to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for a rating, it came back NC-17. Years later they made Team America: World Police, which included a four-minute puppet-sex scene that pushed them into forbidden territory. This time, however, they were provided scene-specific notes on how to make the film into an R. The difference? Orgazmo was an indie release, while Team America came from Paramount Studios. read the full review | |
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 | | 3. Bridge | | | Director: Eric Steel | | Format: DVD Release Date: 6/12/2007 | | The Bridge - DVD Review By: Ed Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 6/16/2007 11:33 PM | | The visuals of the bridge, however, are a whole different story. There is a true shock to the actual jumps that the cameras recorded and the first one stops you cold. Even eerier are the wide shots of the bridge where things are still and quiet and then in the corner of the picture you see a splash. Increasing the tension of every scene is that many, many people go to the railing and look over just to see or take a picture or think. You sit thinking "is this the one' is this the guy who is going over'" and feel a bit ghoulish. You feel fascinated watching it but a little dirty that you're so interested. read the full review | |
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 | | 4. Street Fight | | | Director: Michael Curry | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/9/2007 | | Street Fight - DVD By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/11/2007 1:17 AM | |
Its tempting to view politics as little more than a grudge match, an untelegenic blood match between a number of well-dressed liars who should be judged not for the substance of their statements, but rather the artifice with which they conceal their true intentions. That was certainly the manner in which the local and national media seemed to treat the 2002 Newark mayoral campaign, an unusually rough-and-tumble fight between a hard-headed incumbent and an idealistic upstart. read the full review | |
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 | | 5. Wordplay | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/8/2007 | | Wordplay - DVD Review By: Anne Gilbert - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/17/2006 12:32 AM | | I am not particularly a puzzler, but Wordplay, Patrick Creadon’s ode to crossword makers and lovers is so reverent and infectious, it’s hard not to get caught up in the desire to put letters in all the empty boxes – in pen. I have never so badly wanted to finish a crossword. read the full review | |
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 | | 6. Al Franken-God Spoke | | | Director: Chris Hegedus Nicholas Doob | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/24/2007 | | Al Franken: God Spoke - DVD By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/26/2007 10:08 PM | |
In the world of fastidious liberalism, Al Franken has the considerable pleasure of being one of the group's most charismatic spokesmen. His work on SNL and in a few films opens up to a larger audience than Michael Moore and his floundering Air America radio station makes him an underdog hero to many left-wingers. Documentary filmmakers Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus felt there was just cause for a film to be made about Franken and his anti-Bush, anti-right-wing push during the last election, amongst other things. The film covers a lot of ground in its modest runtime. read the full review | |
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 | | 7. Planet Earth-Complete Collection | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/24/2007 | | User Rating: 5 | | Planet Earth (BBC) - The Complete Series - DVD By: Michael Jones - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/30/2007 10:15 PM | | How does one even begin to lay down the words that would even dare to try to encompass and review the DVD boxset of the BBCs nature documentary/mini-series Planet Earth, and not instantly feel insignificant and otherwise insufficient for the task? Bearing in mind that the overall cost of production was around $25 million and that filming occurred over the span of 62 countries, 204 individual locations, all over a period of five years, perhaps such feelings are not altogether unwarranted.
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 | | 8. Jesus Camp | | | Director: Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/31/2007 | | Jesus Camp - DVD By: Norm Schrager - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/29/2007 1:14 AM | |
While young Americans are now regularly sent to fight in the Middle East, even younger ones are positioned on the front lines of a different battle, a self-proclaimed war within U.S. borders. The vigilant world of Evangelical Christianity regards children as a powerful voice, a precious line of defense, an invaluable vision of the future; in short, they are the foot soldiers in a cultural aggression that's chronicled brilliantly in this Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature. read the full review | |
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 | | 9. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection) | | | Starring: Enzo Staiola Director: Vittorio De Sica | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/6/2007 | | Bicycle Thieves - DVD By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/8/2007 12:34 AM | |
Few films have had their titles put under such intense scrutiny as Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neo-realist masterpiece. Originally, the translated title was simply The Bicycle Thief, referencing the perpetrator of the film's titular crime. However, later digging and arbitration led to it being called The Bicycle Thieves or just Bicycle Thieves, which references more to the fact the social realism, poverty and desperation that most of the men in Italy felt at the time. Ostensibly, it meant that we are all bicycle thieves, and we are all capable of doing heartless things to maintain one's own way of life. read the full review | |
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 | | 10. Blood and Oil-Middle East in World War 1 | | | Director: Marty Callaghan | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/8/2007 | | Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I - DVD By: Tim Gebhart - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 1/16/2007 1:12 PM | | A documentary focus on the Middle East during World War I provides important perspective on the region's problems today. Why, some may ask, would a documentary film on the military campaigns in the Middle East during World War I open with scenes from the American invasion of Iraq in 2003? As the documentary, Blood and Oil — The Middle East in Word War I demonstrates, it is something called historical perspective. A similar invasion "has happened before" and is part of what contributed to the Middle East we know today. read the full review | |
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 | | 11. Starbucking | | | Director: Bill Tangeman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/24/2007 | | Starbucking - DVD By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/26/2007 6:52 AM | |
If you're a fan of "oddly enough" type news stories, you've probably heard of the guy who's trying to visit every Starbucks in the world. He's known only as Winter, and he looks like any listless twentysomething you'd see in a major downtown city. There's no real reason for his quest -- now 10 years and thousands of store visits under his belt -- and spending 73 minutes of time as Bill Tangeman documents some of that time makes that abundantly clear. Winter isn't a madman, but his adventure is one of the most pointless exercises man has ever attempted. read the full review | |
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 | | 12. Air Guitar Nation | | | Starring: Dan Crane David S. Jung Director: Alexandra Lipsitz | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/28/2007 | | Air Guitar Nation - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/19/2007 1:30 AM | |
Jumping around on stage in time with the music? This isn't Dancing with the Stars, it's Air Guitar Nation, a fun documentary about an absurd hobby that makes for an even more absurd international competition. Air guitar is, of course, the post-pubescent tendency to wave one's arms as if one is playing a real guitar, in time to a background track: The harder the music rocks, the better. And while air guitarists can fake it, most will readily admit they have no actual ability to play a real guitar. read the full review | |
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 | | 13. Sacco and Vanzetti | | | Director: Peter Miller | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/21/2007 | | Sacco and Vanzetti - DVD Review By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/10/2007 9:26 PM | |
To some extent, popular movements and agitators rely on their martyrs to keep the juices flowing. History is littered with examples of causes that languished in apathy and obscurity until blood was spilled, whether in a public square during a demonstration or inside the stone walls of an execution chamber. So it is with the notorious 1927 execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two most likely innocent men who appeared to have been framed by an establishment fearful of both immigrants of the "wrong" kind and any sort of popular social justice movement. read the full review | |
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 | | 14. Heart of the Game | | | Director: Ward Serrell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/27/2007 | | The Heart of the Game - DVD By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/15/2007 9:15 PM | |
What is it about sports that makes us snap to attention? Its been a good 12 years since Steve James went and blew everyones mind with Hoop Dreams, and were still obsessed with sports as tool for personal triumph. Although, it hasnt gone all-too-well with narratives (I offer Glory Road, Remember the Titans, and For Love of the Game into evidence) but as far as documentaries go, the reputation seems pretty untarnished. Audiences, for quite some time, love the idea of the underdog winning and society has been grateful enough to give us plenty of stories to turn into tear-drenched sentiment and well-meaning Channel 6 special reports. Ward Serrill knows this, but his documentary isnt unforgivable tear jerking, at least not completely. read the full review | |
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 | | 15. Sicko | | | Starring: Michael Moore Director: Michael Moore | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/20/2008 | | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Sicko - DVD Review By: Margaret Williams - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2007 7:34 AM | | The strength of the film Sicko lies in the editing, music, and humorous narration by Moore himself. It is full of intense interviews, saddening life stories, and certainly builds on the frustrations and sympathy for people who have lost their homes and their hope, all because the government won't step in to regulate the ripping off of citizens by corporations. Sicko is to health care as Supersize Me is to the fast food industry. Moore is asking for the government to realize that, "all men are created equal," no matter how much medical need they have. read the full review | |
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 | | 16. Un Chien Andalou | | | Director: Salvador Dali Luis Buñuel | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/28/2004 | | Un Chien andalou - DVD Review By: Jake Euker - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/27/2007 11:14 PM | |
It was released in 1929, but it still has the power to make audiences cringe today and it may remain the most notorious 16 minutes of film ever made. Called by director Luis Buuel a "call to murder," and born of the Surrealist movement in art, Un Chien Andalou is one of the chief cultural artifacts from a time when film aspired to something larger than mere storytelling.There is no plot, per se, but rather an amalgamation of images centering on a romance seemingly being conducted between the film's leads. read the full review | |
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 | | 17. I Trust You To Kill Me | | | Starring: Kiefer Sutherland Director: Manu Boyer | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/9/2007 | | I Trust You to Kill Me - DVD By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/11/2007 1:17 AM | | Sutherland himself takes on the role of band manager for a quick tour through Europe, promoting the band the old-fashioned way, by granting interviews and forcing free tickets upon people he meets in the street. This is a true tale about one band and one celebrity, how they get along, why they're together, and how tough it is for a band to get noticed, even with Keifer freakin' Sutherland in your corner. read the full review | |
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 | | 18. Death of a President | | | Starring: George W. Bush Director: Gabriel Range | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/9/2008 | | Death of a President - DVD By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/24/2007 4:22 AM | |
There are so many ways a fictional movie about the assassination of one of the most hated presidents in U.S. history could go wrong. The most popular theory on Gabriel Range's fauxumentory Death of a President is that the very idea of the film is overtly liberal and putrid in practice; Hilary Clinton, of all people, denounced the film for making any dough out of such a horrendous speculation. Shockingly, Range's film might be one of the kinder treatments of the nation's leader to hit the screen yet. read the full review | |
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