For nearly 50 years, the film “Ghost in the Noonday Sun” has lived in infamy. Back in 1973, hot, young British director Peter Medak made this swashbuckling 17th century action comedy. With the legendary Peter Sellers in the starring role and comic partner Spike Milligan also attached, “Ghost” was expected to be a runaway hit. […]
While watching “The Painter and the Thief”, I had to keep reminding myself that this isn’t a narrative film. It’s a documentary — that really doesn’t feel like one. And that’s not just because of the way it’s shot, that there’s no omniscient narrator, or because the timeline keeps jumping back and forth. It’s mainly […]
“Spaceship Earth” is not an inside look at the popular Disney World EPCOT attraction. Instead, it’s a documentary on the ground-breaking human science experiment called Biosphere 2. If you lived during the early ‘90s, you may remember Biosphere 2: eight people were quarantined for two years inside a research structure — built in the Arizona […]
G ratings are rare these days for big studio releases. In fact, they’ve mostly been awarded to two categories of films: documentaries and Disney animated movies. So far in 2019, only three major releases have been given G ratings: “Toy Story 4”, the Disneynature doc “Penguins” and NEON’s “Apollo 11”. WB and IMAX’s nature doc […]