"Cartel Land" reviewed, and Mammoth Lakes Film Festival awards
"Cartel Land" deservedly won the Bravery Award; this is yeoman filmmaking, done at great risk to the filmmakers as well as the participants.
Sci-fi in “Tomorrowland” makes a good point
It's refreshing to see science fiction used for something that isn't dystopian!
Progressive cinema clips: Cinetopia, Robeson film, "Chiraq"
Detroit area film lovers are being treated to a new version of the Cinetopia Film Festival, now in its fourth year and growing rapidly.
A would-be Gorbachev in the People’s Republic: “The Chinese Mayor”
This film is an insider's look at Geng Yanbo, the reform-minded mayor of Datong, one of the People's Republic of China's most polluted cities.
The cost of fame: “The Cult of JT Leroy"
The film shows how nonfiction becomes novelized, with dramatization and confabulation fobbed off as "news" and "truth."
Ray’s eye: The magnificent Apu Trilogy rides again
Before there was Bollywood or "The Mindy Project" there was Satyajit Ray, India's movie maestro.
Controversial Aloha co-stars Hawaiian independence leader
A lynch mob is attacking writer/director Cameron Crowe's new movie "Aloha," which opened May 29.
