[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00196SMXQ][/pullquote] Street Fight was originally devised by first time director Marshall Curry to follow both sides of the 2002 Newark mayoral election between 16 year incumbent Sharpe James and Corey Booker, a younger ivy league law graduate returning to his … [Read more...]
Review: Gasland (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004CSKCT0][/pullquote] Nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy in 2011, Gasland documents the effect that extracting natural gas from the earth using hydraulic fracturing, or ˜fracking', has on the surrounding water supply and those that depend on it. … [Read more...]
Review: For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B001PHDKYK][/pullquote] A hit at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, For The Bible Tells Me So tackles the clash between Christianity and homosexuality via the stories of Christian parents with gay children. The story focuses on two main areas “ how fundamentally … [Read more...]
Review: Lost in La Mancha (2002)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000083EGF][/pullquote] Lost in La Mancha, captured by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, tells the ill-fated tale of Terry Gilliam's attempt in the summer of 2000 to break the 'curse of Quixote' and finally do what no-one else has done successfully before - adapt the novel … [Read more...]
Review: King of Kong (2007)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00163LTLY][/pullquote] The world of competitive video gaming is far more complex than you could ever imagine as this 2007 documentary that focuses on the arcade game Donkey Kong shows. Whereas heading to the arcade to pass some time playing games like Pacman and … [Read more...]