American Zombie is a tiny little mockumentary that you may need to exert some effort to find, but I hope you will find it as well worth it as I and my companions did. Grace Lee directs (and costars as the in-film documentary’s codirector) this story of the zombie community’ struggles to function in […]

The film so controversial that it couldn’t release in U.S. theatres is now available on DVD on April 3, 2007. If you didn’t hear about it, Death of a President styles itself as a documentary about the 10/19/07 assassination of current president George W. Bush. It’s a provocative choice of subject matter no […]

Christopher Guest’s series of improvised mockumentaries (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) all employ his obscenely talented cabal of friends, loose storylines, and a recurring motif. That motif is a portrait of the humble egotism of small, interesting people who, for various reasons, have imagined themselves to be much bigger than […]

If you haven’t seen the Borat segments on the Ali G show (created by star Sacha Baron Cohen), then describing the alchemy that Borat does is necessary here to explain the rest of the review. Borat, a Khazakh journalist, insinuates himself into situations with a group of people under the pretext of an interview for […]

Billed on the IMDB as a drama, but marketed somewhat like a comedy, The Jolly Boys’ Last Stand appears to be a love letter for any group of lads whose lives have shifted away from pub crawls and intoxicated hijinks into relationships and love and adulthood. Narrated as a “wedding documentary” home movie shot […]

One mistake one should never make is seeing a movie like this right after seeing a movie like Munich. It will scramble your communication skills completely. Taking advantage of the Ricky Gervaise-inspired craze of comedy through self-immolation (metaphorical), Albert Brooks directs his self-penned trip to a land of self-immolation (literal) to see what […]

Did you love Best in Show or Waiting for Guffman? If so, then go see A Mighty Wind, there is nothing I need further to tell you. Directed by Christopher Guest and written by Guest and Eugene Levy (as much as a wholly improvised movie is written), Wind is again a character-driven comedy […]

Festival In Cannes is exactly that; shot during the Cannes Film Festival, it is a fictionalized account (shot as sort of a mockumentary) of the incestuous wheeling and dealing and love matches and sexual predation that occur during major film festivals. It’s a very clever idea, using the real life Cannes setups of glitz […]

Christopher Guest is a brilliant man. He knows how to fill his movies with actors who are equal to the task he lays out for them: improvise a movie based on story structure. “Build your own characters,” spake Lord Haden-Guest, “Speak in the voices you create for themselves, and I will provide the […]

I can tell looking at it, this movie is going to vanish and people are going to forget they ever saw it. It’s a shame, really, because I found it very entertaining. Other folks I have talked to either liked it as much or really didn’t like it. It’s a mockumentary much […]