Oscar winning filmmaker and documentarian extraordinaire Errol Morris’s latest ‘subject’ makes for compelling viewing even though he is best summed up by two very simple words ‘smug’ and ‘arrogant’. Donald Henry Rumsfeld seems to have more lives than a cat since he first burst into the public arena in 1962 when he was elected to Congress … Continue reading
This is such an unlikely story of seven siblings who were raised in the heart of New York’s Lower East Side by a tyrannical father and subservient mother who only allowed them to venture outside the front door of their apartment once or twice a year throughout their childhood, that it at first seems like … Continue reading
Filmmaker R J Cutler seems to be establishing something of a career out of making documentaries of self-centred stubborn arrogant people who have no respect for their colleagues and totally disregard their viewpoint. His last one was on Anna Wintour in ‘The September Issue’ and apart from her dress sense and her political views, she … Continue reading
We guess for Hollywood insiders Tom Donahue incisive documentary on gender inequality in the movie business is hardly big news, but for those of us outside of the circle his ‘investigation’ highlights issues that we rarely think about. Interestingly enough Donahue started the project before the formation of the whole #MeToo movement which is … Continue reading
1n 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. Later that same year ‘LOVE IN ACTION’ was founded by an evangelical Christian ministry specifically ‘to restore those trapped in sexual and relational sin through the power of Jesus Christ’ i.e. to forcible make gay men straight. As the oldest established ‘ex-gay’ organization … Continue reading