David Carr has an article in The New York Times this week on the “glut of cinema” in theaters at the moment. Just the other day I was trying to figure out if Great World of Sound had already been released in NYC and was horrified to find out that it had come and gone without me noticing! There are so many movies out at the moment that I hadn’t even noticed the release of a film I really loved…

King Corn opens today at Cinema Village in NYC. This is a really important documentary about the American food system, raising provocative questions about the way our food is produced, from the subsidized genetically-modified corn that plays such a large, and unhealthy role, in the American diet, to the cows that are fattened up on corn, a food they do not normally eat, in vast feed lots. This film made me really start thinking about what I put into my…

There are so many great documentaries out in NYC this week: AJ Schnack’s Kurt Cobain About a Son, Amir Bar-Lev’s My Kid Could Paint That and Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire. I haven’t seen Lake of Fire yet but I’ve heard that it is very powerful and thought provoking on the highly-charged subject of abortion and I am looking forward to catching it at Film Forum this week. Kaye funded the film himself and worked on it for 17 years!…