In 2006 writer Lara Damaini came to the conclusion that the video camera was mightier than the pen. Within a year she had scooped an on-camera interview not only with the Dalai Lama, but also with outspoken Tibetan freedom campaigner Lhasang Tsering, who broke a three-year media silence to speak with her about the steady […]
Early on in this documentary about the twenty-four men who went on missions to the moon between 1968 and 1972, one former astronaut comments that his father – born before man had made a successful plane flight - could hardly believe that humans might walk on the moon, yet his son thought it to be […]
Rarely does an audience burst spontaneously into applause at the end of a movie, but that’s what happened at the session of The Black Balloon that I watched. It’s a clear indication of the success of this film in connecting in such a warm way with those watching – many of whom were teenagers. It’s […]
Director Gillian Armstrong refers to Harry Houdini as the rock star of his time, such was his fame and following. Best known as a magician and escapologist, he was also a skeptic, pursuing so-called psychics and exposing their tricks. Yet Houdini (real name Ehrich Weiss) wasn’t short of deception and trickery himself, and knew […]
It is 10,000 B.C., and the last great round of climate change is about to kick in. Dinner (that’s mammoth) is getting pretty thin on the ground. Young tribal hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait from The Covenant and Sky High) has just made a vow to his young love, the blue-eyed Evolet (Camilla Belle), to love […]
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