Talk To Me, an affecting biopic from director Kasi Lemmons, details the real-life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene, an ex-con who became one of Washington D.C.’s most popular radio deejays during the height of the ’60s Civil Rights Movement. (more…)

Aussie Director Geoffrey Wright, who introduced the world to Russell Crowe in his disturbing 1992 feature Romper Stomper, arrived recently on American shores with a reintroduction of sorts to William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, updated to the present day Australian underworld. (more…)

Americans are no strangers to the financial debilitations of sickness – or more specifically, of being trapped in a system that exploits patients and widely denies health coverage to nearly anyone with any sort of preexisting ailment.

So it should come as no surprise that controversial filmmaker Michael Moore had little trouble finding victims of said system for his latest work, Sicko, and presenting stories and testimony that cast little doubt on the intentions of health care executives. (more…)

You Kill Me, a predictable but at times clever black comedy from director John Dahl (Rounders), seems to go through the motions while providing a few amusing moments along the way. (more…)

After watching Monica Haim’s documentary Awake Zion, a question bounced around in my head like a dub track echo effect: Why don’t more countries have a Minister of Culture? As Haim’s movie so adroitly points out, culture- in this case, music - brings people together like nothing else known to humankind. (more…)

Those interested in fighting for their right to microbroadcast over the radio airwaves should take some pointers from Frank Luntz. (more…)

Though Paprika, the latest work from director Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers), creates strong parallels to thematic elements of stories like The Matrix trilogy, the magnificently surreal work of anime captures a space in film all its own. (more…)

Acting as an excellent portal to the past for those that either missed the boat or were too young to experience The Jesus Lizard live, MVD Visual’s DVD release of Touch & Go’s basilisk-loving band provides more than an hour of bona fide mid-90s flashback. (more…)

Coming as the first film to be branded with the label Morgan Spurlock Presents… but having no work credited to the semi-famous director of anti-McDonald’s documentary Supersize Me and television program “30 Days,” Chalk, a mockumentary in the style of “The Office,” has begun to be released in select cities around the United States. (more…)

Brand Upon the Brain!, an absurdly fictional account of director Guy Maddin’s childhood with an overbearing, manipulative mother and mad scientist father, is more than a tale of a dysfunctional family that controls an island full of subservient orphans. (more…)