From 2000 to 2005, Swiss endurance athlete Serge Roetheli and his wife Nicole traveled 25,000 miles around the world, from Europe, down around Africa, across the Middle East and South Asia, through East Asia and Australia, then over to South America and up into North America before finishing up back in Europe. The catch? Serge [...]

Documentarian Alex Gibney has made a name for himself by examining the murky morality of our leaders and institutions, such as the Bush Administration’s war in Iraq (2007′s Taxi to the Dark Side), the scandals that brought down political figures (2010′s Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and Casino Jack and the [...]

(Don’t complain about the title – I came this close to using “I Just Flew in from Asgard and Boy are My Arms Thor!” Consider yourselves lucky.) When you stop and think about it, little about Thor the Comic-book Superhero makes sense. (By that I mean little about Thor the character makes sense—nothing at all [...]

Brothers Alan and Gabe Polsky made their mark in 2009 producing Werner Herzog and Nicholas Cage’s fairly awesome (and I’m so not kidding about that) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. But what the brothers really wanted to do was direct, and this month brings to theaters and VOD their directorial debut The Motel [...]

I was struggling a bit with my reactions to the new film adaptation of Ender’s Game. No, not because of the loud, kinda silly, kinda self-righteous, kinda deserved finger wagging and soap-boxing about novel author Orson Scott Card’s outspoken anti-gay brain vomitings. (To be clear, Card’s views on marriage equality are Mormon-dumb and deserve derision [...]