Reviews
Dog Bites Man
Doing belated penance for David Spade's show, Comedy Central delivers a smart, wry mockumentary about local TV news with a gifted cast and rather dangerous improv element.
America's Next Producer
Neither as slick nor addictive as HBO's "Project Greenlight" but far better than Fox's failed "On the Lot," "America's Next Producer" won't likely uncover the next Richard Zanuck, David Brown or their TV equivalent, but it amiably fills the time before the fall season
The Human Behavior Experiments
Following up on their "First Amendment Project," the cable nets tap filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room") to craft this thought-provoking examination of three controversial psychological studies whose chilling results still resonate today.
The First Amendment Project
Big theoretical concepts don't usually translate well into television, which could be why this noble idea of exploring the First Amendment has such a half-baked sense about it. The first pair of four half-hour films are provocative, to be sure, but it's mostly a platform for the usual right-baiting
Russian Game Movie Review
Pavel Chukhrai's period adaptation of Gogol's 1843 comedy The Gamblers reps a rather radical departure from the somber sweep of the helmer's The Thief and A Driver for Vera.
Fourbi Movie Review
Film starts out with intriguing parallels to Tanner's second feature, the Bulle Ogier starrer The Salamander (1971), in which a young, introverted working-class woman was accused of murder and the truth of the event was debated by the media. The equivalent character here is Rosemonde (Viard), who
Betrayal Movie Review
A dense, info-laden and handsomely produced docu, Betrayal charts the firsthand efforts of a former friend to get at the inner workings of enigmatic Sascha Anderson who, for 20 years, led a double life as a leading cultural figure in the East German dissident underground and as a high-ranking
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