'The Crime Of The Century' Trailer: Alex Gibney Examines The Opioid Crisis
Alex Gibney tackles the opioid crisis with the two-part documentary The Crime of the Century. Watch the trailer.
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'Crazy, Not Insane' Trailer: A Look Into The Minds Of Serial Killers
Crazy Not Insane, the latest documentary from Alex Gibney, follows psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis.
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This Week In Trailers: A Life On The Farm, The Peasants, Nail In The Coffin: The Fall And Rise Of Vampiro, Agents Of Chaos, Never Gonna Snow Again
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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Tiger Woods Is Getting A Two-Part HBO Sports Documentary Produced By Oscar Winner Alex Gibney
HBO Sports has a two-part Tiger Woods documentary series coming in December, executive produced by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney.
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'The Innocence Files' Trailer: Watch An Organization Fight To Overturn Wrongful Convictions
The Innocence Files trailer introduces us to Netflix's documentary series about an organization dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions in the U.S.
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This Week In Trailers: Pick It Up! Ska In The 90's, Ready For War, Knives And Skin, Citizen K, Midnight Family
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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This Week In Trailers: Wrestle, Chi-Town, The Inventor, Diane, A Tuba To Cuba
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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'The Looming Tower' Trailer: Your Next Must-See Series
The Looming Tower trailer offers a look at your next must-see series, a new Hulu drama adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Lawrence Wright.
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Netflix's 'Dirty Money' Trailer Takes On Greed And Corruption
The exciting, turbo-charged Dirty Money trailer offers up a look at Netflix's latest documentary series, which will focus on corporate greed and corruption.
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'The Looming Tower' First Look: Hulu's New Counterterrorism Miniseries
The Looming Tower first look provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Hulu's new counterterrorism drama, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book.
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Zero Days Trailer: "Welcome To The Next Global War"
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney's next film takes on the new global war of zero day exploits. Watch the Zero Day trailer.
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The 'Zero Days' Trailer Is Here To Make Your Day Feel A Little Bit More Apocalyptic
The first Zero Days trailer is here, giving us a look at director Alex Gibney's new documentary, which tackled cyber warfare and state-sponsored hackers.
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'Cooked' Trailer: Alex Gibney's Doc Series Urges A Return To Meals As An Institution
Netflix has just debuted the Cooked trailer, offering a glimpse into the four-part documentary series by Alex Gibney about the importance of cooking.
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'Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine' Trailer
The Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine trailer promises us a "candid look at Jobs' legacy featuring interviews with a handful of those close to him."
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'Going Clear' Trailer: Alex Gibney's Controversial Scientology Documentary
Alex Gibney's Controversial Scientology Documentary, Going Clear, is coming to HBO in March. See the Going Clear Trailer here.
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'Going Clear' Is A Powerful But Disappointing Indictment Of Scientology [Sundance 2015 Review]
Going Clear is a good primer, a very damning and powerful inditement on the church of Scientology. Read my Going Clear movie review from Sundance 2015.
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'The Armstrong Lie' Trailer: "I Was Confident That I Would Never Get Caught"
Up until a few years ago, Lance Armstrong's cycling career sounded like one of the great inspirational tales of our time. That he beat cancer was impressive enough; that he then went on to win the Tour de France a bunch of times was nothing short of incredible. Among the many people intrigued by Armstrong's…
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This Week In Trailers: Sunshine On Leith, Crop, Sacro GRA, McConkey, The Armstrong Lie, Sing Me The Songs That Say I Love You
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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TV Bits: 'The Killing', 'Arrested Development', 'Pushing Daisies', 'Dexter', 'Hannibal', Frank Sinatra
We have a particularly murderer-heavy edition of TV Bits today, with news about Dexter, Hannibal, and The Killing. After the jump: Dallas, Veep, Rectify, and Orphan Black get renewed Vampire Diaries spinoff gets green light Julian Sands joins Dexter in mystery role Downton Abbey gets its first black character John Oliver will host The Daily Show this summer Bryan…
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'We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks' Trailer: Truth And Secrets
Information may be the most valuable commodity on Earth, especially when it pertains to the inner workings and policies of major governments. Julian Assange drew the ire of countless officials in governments across the globe when he published state and military secrets through his online portal WikiLeaks. Documentarian Alex Gibney (Freakonomics, Taxi to the Dark…
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'Looper', 'The Master', 'Perks Of Being A Wallflower', And More Nominated For Writers Guild Of America Awards
With just days to go until Oscar nominations are announced, the Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of nominees for their top screenplay awards. As expected, many of these are films that have picked up plenty of accolades already. It'll surprise no one to see that Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, and Lincoln are among the…
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This Week In Trailers: Film Socialisme, Scalene, The Artist, Xu Xia, Magic Trip
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Sundance Sales: Vera Farmiga's Directorial Debut 'Higher Ground'; Alex Gibney's LSD Doc 'Magic Trip'; Black Panther Movement Doc 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975'
You won't be seeing too many of the films that premiered at Sundance 2011 get a major release this year, but that's not entirely bad news. Though most of the sales were on the small side, a solid 39 films walked away with a distribution deal of some kind. This means that -- whether it…
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Alex Gibney Making WikiLeaks Documentary; Separate Julian Assange Biopic Also Planned
One of the first big pieces of news out of Sundance is that Universal will fund a documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, directed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money). Together with the biopic of Mr. Assange that is about to go into…
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This Week In Trailers: Gnarr, Douchebag, Client 9, Who Is Harry Nilsson?, Billie & Theodore
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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This Week In Trailers: Trash Humpers, It's A Wonderful Afterlife, Mega Piranha, Peacock, Casino Jack And The United States Of Money
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Magnolia Acquires Freakonomics Movie
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the domestic distribution rights to the big screen adaptation of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's bestselling book Freakonomics. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in…
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