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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
directed by Alex Gibney
Enron's Ponzi Scheme I can picture 29,000 former Enron employees and even more stockholders watching this documentary in shock ... and then opening their windows and shouting, "I'm mad as Hell, and I'm NOT going to take this ANY MORE!!!!" |
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Bodyguard, The (2004)
directed by Petchtai Wongkamlao
Farcical Thai Action-Thriller Not your ordinary Asian action-thriller with the hero running around Bangkok's streets butt naked. |
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
directed by Robert Greenwald
Bashing the Retail Goliath If you love shopping at Wal-Mart, forget about this film. On the other hand, perhaps you shouldn't miss it. Getting cheap underwear means that "somebody" has to pay the price--this documentary brutally kicks the giant retailer's vulnerable spots. |
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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
An Incredible Journey Adventurer Merian C. Cooper declares that it's man's nature to explore, and here he films one of his own incredible journeys, as the film crew joins a nomadic Persian tribe in search of survival. |
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Grandma's Boy (1922)
directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Still Funny 80+ Years Later A standard Harold Lloyd narrative, with the timid hero winning the girl, but most memorable for an adorable tiny Grandma, who packs quite a wallop! |
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March of the Penguins
directed by Luc Jacquet
Lively Mating March For Survival A rare species of documentary that provokes thought and emotion without any secondary motives besides inspiring awe. |
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King Kong (1933)
directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
A Beauty that Captures the Beast Peter Jackson does the remake, but there's only one original Kong! |
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Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Before Kong! Before King Kong, Merian C. Cooper brought the thrill of big game hunting to American movie theaters through this silent adventure thriller, complete with leopards, tigers, and bears (oh my!) |
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Why Worry?
directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Lloyd's Cinema Paradiso Another quality comedy by Harold Lloyd, most notable for casting an actual 8 ft. 9 inch giant in a supporting role. |
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Browning Version, The (1951)
directed by Anthony Asquith
Willy Loman of the British Education System Outstanding character study about a retiring classics teacher. THIS is the film to inspire any veteran teacher or anyone whose lost his original spark. |
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