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17 December 2009 6:58 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Documentary filmmaker Chris Smith and investigative reporter Michael Ruppert have a story to tell.  The truth here is as far beyond inconvenient as a modern BMW is beyond the pony express.  If there is ever a film that makes you want to bunker down with gallons of fresh water and a million cans of baked beans it is not The Day After, or even The Day After Tomorrow, it is Collapse.

Taking a more than a cue from Errol Morris and his Robert McNamara doc, The Fog Of War, Smith plants Ruppert in a chair and has him draw out the map of the world going to hell in a hand basket over the next decade, give or take a few years.  His picture is not a pretty one.  But it is compelling due to Ruppert's level-headed fanaticism on the subject (some might call it passion).  Peak Oil, economic derivatives, »

2 November 2009 6:14 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

The War Game Review: Part I Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the 1960s (e.g., Fail Safe, Planet of the Apes) and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its effectiveness when almost all other films on the topic seem corny. It’s likely that the timeless effectiveness of Watkins’ film is the very reason it was banned for nearly two decades. Scenes of British police shooting civilians were probably deemed too disturbing. Worse yet, the film’s realistic feel and unflinching look at the total inability of the U.K. government to protect its citizens from a nuclear [...] »

- Dan Schneider

2 November 2009 6:14 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

The War Game (1965) Direction and Screenplay: Peter Watkins Narration: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham     By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: For anyone who thinks that those 50-pack mega-dvd sets of public domain films put out by several different video companies are worthless, I would argue that the amount of films you get for the money is worth it, even if all were mediocre, and that the truth is: each DVD package will come with at least 8-10 enjoyable films, a few true classics like Carnival of Souls or Night of the Living Dead, and every so often a great little film will pop up that makes the package a total steal. One such 50-pack I [...] »

- Dan Schneider

3 articles from 2009