You know your documentary is in trouble when the people whose views you’re attempting to represent turn against you.
Take for instance this review by climate-change skeptics Tom Harris and Tim Patterson of the anti-Gore, anti-environmentalism film Not Evil, Just Wrong. In critiquing the film, the authors sprinkle words like “misleading”, “careless”, and “manipulative” — saying [...]
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Meatless Monday is stressing people out!
On Monday, Lou Dobbs did a segment on how “Meatless Monday” is being adopted by the Baltimore city school district in an effort to cut costs and get children to eat healthier food.
In the report, Food and Nutrition Director for Baltimore Schools Tony Geraci says: ”In every culture on the planet [...]
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Last April, Disneynature lit up the Earth Day celebrations with the release of EARTH – a gorgeous documentary that featured some of the planet’s greatest natural hits. The flick went on to break a record for the genre with a weekend opening box office of $4 million — and eventually raked in over $108 million [...]
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The trailer for Mel Gibson’s new eco-themed thriller has been released — and it looks to be a dark return for the actor to the silver screen. Titled Edge of Darkness, the flick is based on a popular ’80s BBC mini-series of the same name. The film revolves around Gibson, who plays a detective, and [...]
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The 22nd Annual Tokyo International Film Festival focused on ecology this year and welcomed their guests, including AVATAR’s Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington (pictured), on a green carpet made of recycled plastic bottles.
Although there were over 100 films screened at the festival, the most controversial was definitely The Cove, the documentary about the [...]
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The people behind the new anti-global warming film Not Evil, Just Wrong have found themselves at the end of a losing battle with Stanford University — and accusations that their editing of interview footage amounts to “dishonest filmmaking”.
The filmmakers interviewed Stanford civil and environmental engineering Prof. Stephen Schneider for the movie, but were later told [...]
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Even though the term “going green” has seemingly pervaded almost every industry in our society, getting beyond those words and manifesting real change in the never-ending, relentless machine of our modern economy has been a tough challenge to chew on. Here at the Razz, we often report on press releases dropped by Hollywood studios extolling [...]
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CNN recently visited Warner Bros studios for a look behind the scenes at how one of Hollywood’s largest filmmakers is taking the industry green. Have a look below:
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Last year, in the spirit of Halloween, I treated myself to John Carpenter’s The Thing — a 1982 horror film that I’d never seen but heard plenty about. Without giving too much of the plot away, it involved a some scientists, a cold remote base, an infectious alien creature, and a fiery climactic explosion.
If I [...]
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From what I’m hearing, people are loving Zombieland — and Woody Harrelson’s character in the movie has a lot to do with the praise.
As we mentioned earlier, the hardcore vegan made sure that his special dietary needs were met on the set; including the Twinkies his character so desires in the film.
“My character is searching [...]
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