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The Best of the Decade: Documentaries

17 December 2009 9:30 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

The 2000s were a great decade for documentaries, both artistically and commercially. Four films (Fahrenheit 9/11, March of the Penguins and this year's Earth and This Is It) grossed more than $100 million worldwide, with two of them even topping the $200 million mark. Meanwhile, plenty of other films, whether due to their politics or their humorous entertainment value, broke through with mainstream audiences, primarily in the arthouse circuit but also on home video. And speaking of home viewing, thanks to Netflix and free online streaming sites like SnagFilms, more and more people have access to more and more non-fiction films than ever before.

So obviously it's a tough task to narrow down all these docs for a list of the best in the last ten years. In order to spotlight some particularly deserving films (25 of them), I've decided to follow the lead of William Goss' action flick list and break these up …

- Christopher Campbell

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Celebrate Veteran’s Day with a War Movie Overload

11 November 2009 2:33 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Instead of doing a cheesy list for Veteran's Day, we here at Fsr decided just to give a run down of all the war-type movies that we've covered over the years (the good, the bad, and the boots on the ground). Some of these you'll be able to pick up at the rental store on your way back home from work, but hopefully your employer was nice enough to give you the day off so you could sit back with a beer, some BBQ and a swelling fervor in remembrance of the monumental jobs done by the bravest members of our society. And since we're overloading here, we went ahead and included just about any flicks that involve soldiers and wartime. We even included some featuring those limey Brits! Look how far we've come since 1776. As an added challenge, why not watch all of them? The General (1927) Battleship Potemkin (1925) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) To Hell and Back (1955) Operation Petticoat …

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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No End In Sight For ‘Smallville,’ Says Green Arrow Actor

2 July 2009 2:52 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

It might take a while for “Super Max” to come to fruition, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your live-action Green Arrow fix anywhere else — in fact, all it takes is a trip to Clark Kent’s hometown.

Justin Hartley plays Oliver Queen, the budding Green Arrow, on The CW’s “Smallville.” As the show enters its ninth season — rumored by some to be its last — many are wondering how much longer the series can go on for. According to Hartley, speculation on the show’s conclusion is premature at this stage. In fact the actor told Sci Fi Wire that the series could even last up to eight more seasons.

“Look, [the producers are] so busy right now, they don’t know if they’re doing one more season or eight more seasons or two more seasons,” Hartley told the website. “They have no idea. So we’ll see. …

- Josh Wigler

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Severe Clear Review, SXSW 2009

14 March 2009 9:42 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

Severe Clear is the Iraq documentary I've been awaiting conscientiously if not eagerly. There certainly hasn't been a shortage of retrospective examinations from a position of authority - e.g. the macrocosmic No End In Sight and the microfocused Standard Operating Procedure - or, in lesser quantities, on-the-ground reportage. The best-known of those is probably 2004's Gunner Palace, which could be politely described - in internet slang - as Epic Fail. Well-intentioned though they were in spending time with soldiers both at rest and patrolling, Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein screwed up by including little you couldn't have seen on the news - gore and atrocities discreetly off-screen - and also in basic competence, like providing audible sound. Working from the footage of Marine Mike Scotti, Kristian Fraga</strong …

- Vadim Rizov

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