Flashback to 2006 and the world had officially entered the seventh generation of gaming, Sony had released the highly-anticipated PS3 and Nintendo had attempted to change the way we played games with the Wii. Alongside the advancement in hardware came the birth of a number of now established franchises, such as Gears of War, Dead …
[callout] The Imposter Directed by Bart Layton [/callout] [quote by=”Josh Spiegel”] Your mind play tricks on you all the time. You’re presented with a clear-cut fact, something that is immutably true, and you doubt it. You wake up in the middle of the night, but your mind convinces you that you’ve had a full night’s …
Once considered by many as either high art, propaganda or educational videos, documentary film has developed into a popular and visible form of entertainment, sometimes breaking into the mainstream, and often having a greater effect on society. Every year it seems more and more docs are produced and thus not even our hard working staff …
And so, the war over The Weinstein Company’s provocative documentary, Bully, ends – to use an exhausted cliché – not with a bang, but with a whimper. Since its release at the end of March, the doc has grossed approximately $3 million; not bad for a reality piece, and, measured against the flick’s $1.1 million …
Bully Directed by Lee Hirsch Written by Lee Hirsch and Cynthia Lowen U.S.A., 2011 *Preface: The following review does not partake in the debate surrounding the film’s controversial ‘R’ rating in the United States. The elementary and high school levels of a child’s academic journey make up some of their most formative years. This is …