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Video Game Culture, King of Kong: A Fist Full Of Quarters

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Who ever thought that a little bitty documentary about a top score on a 1980's video game would ever be worth watching? I have enjoyed such classic games as Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Dig Dug, Centipede, and even the most popular title of the era, Donkey Kong. There is, however, a fine line between enjoyment and addiction, and although all addictions are not necessarily unhealthy, the level to which some of these players take it to will simply astound you.

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The Battle of Haditha: A Sobering Look at the War in Iraq

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

One of the fundamentals of war is kill or be killed. When the war in Iraq began, in its formative stages, the military stressed the point that attacks had caused limited collateral damage and asserted the targets were military and not civilian. According to the directors, somewhere along the line any semblance of rules of engagement went out the window and ordinary Iraqi’s of an unknown quantity have been killed at will, with no regard for human life by the invading army.

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EARTH on Earth Day

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Narrated by James Earl Jones, the documentary Earth from Disneynature follows the path of the sun as it explores our world. Incredible photography allows Earth to focus on a trio of animal mothers and their children: polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. This film was be released on Earth Day April 22, 2009. Look for this movie to appear universally as well as in IMAX theaters near you. Disney is famous for its original plethora of films about nature and animals. Expect great things, take the kids ASAP!

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Super-Size Me

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Have you ever watched a video that made you want to throw up? I have, it is called Super-Size Me. Super-Size Me is a documentary, no, a mock-u-mentary about a lawsuit against the fast food industry, particularly the McDonalds Corporation. The film’s star gained an unseemly amount of weight and experienced high cholesterol levels after eating McDonalds food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for thirty days straight. Salads and vegetables were not included in his regimen.

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Music At The Movies

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Have you watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Humour aside, there are a few scenes that portray how artificial sound and music editing are in television shows as well as in the movies. There is an intimate and inseparable connection between music and the movies and the love affair is not always in the honeymoon phase.

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

With the Holocaust Remembrance Day this past weekend, it was appropriately important to me, as a Jew, to watch and review a movie that deals with the Holocaust. I chose the 1959 movie, The Diary of Anne Frank. Directed by George Stevens, this gripping 3 hour movie relates the story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl. Along with her family, she was forced into hiding with another family in the attic of an annex in Amsterdam to avoid being seized by the Nazis and taken to a concentration camp.

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Casino Jack and the United States of Money

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Jack Abramoff is anything but hilarious. Having said that, this over-charged polemical liberal political "documentary" is hysterical. Before proceeding and describing the accusations and semi-truths (a healthy politicized mixture is presented) I am compelled by Congressional morality standards to inform those of you in my vast audience that if you suffer from a gambling problem (define problem in this case however you want) please call 1-800-admit-it. How great is it that casinos are mandated by law to offer you this number? It is delicious that the companies who profit and prosper by consumers losing their money help provide a service designed (allegedly) to stop the problem (the problem being the casino’s source of revenue). Casino Jack and the United States of Money is probably the most ironic film ever presented.

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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work starts with a montage of her early days as an emerging star. The editors managed to dig up her Johnny Carson appearances and some black and white footage to span Rivers’ vast career. The film then morphs into Joan as a standup comic. She is no stranger to vulgar language or to self-deprecating humor and this delights the crowd. Joan makes no secret of the numerous knives that have sculpted her face to be as immovable as concrete. This is the price she pays for looking young, from the neck up! Her first foray into filthiness on stage comes with a story about her daughter being offered a playboy shoot for 400K from the waist up. Asking her mother for permission turned into a unique experience as Joan told her to ask for 200K more and to show her pussy! Joan starts with a bang so to speak and here we go…

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Princess Kaiulani

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Princess Ka’iulani is a heart-rending true story of a Hawaiian crown princess (fully spelled her name is "Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kawekiu i Lunalilo Cleghorn") caught between two distinct worlds. In 1893 when the Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by American business interests she went into exile to avoid harm.

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Long Pigs: A Film About Cannibalism (Anthropophagy)

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

When watching independent films I often overlook the description provided for a given film and jump into it mentally blindfolded. Tonight I decided to review a documentary entitled Long Pigs. It turns out the picture is about cannibalism. Normally the subject is reviewed by a myriad of scientists, doctors, paleontologists, anthropologists and biologists. In this instance we are privy to several murders and human dissections that will make most peoples’ stomachs turn upside-down in horror and disgust. Many brave enough to watch the murders and the butchery will regurgitate. Others will turn off the film in sheer horror. I am a film reviewer and I promised to offer my expert opinion about Long Pigs and I will do just that.

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Countdown to Zero

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Details: Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Does Countdown to Zero deserve a glowing review? At the very least this documentary by writer/director Lucy Walker makes me energized to be a conservative pundit with a bullhorn. The film opens with a quotation that is a caveat about the fragility of mankind in the age of nuclear weaponry. An accident could destroy an entire city or a continent perhaps. A tiny bomb is capable of wreaking indeterminable havoc. All of this came from mathematical geniuses such as J. Robert Oppenheimer who one moment seemed to believe the bomb a mere pipe dream and days later had uncovered its secret. Nuclear brinkmanship may have helped win the Cold War and assure the United States’ military supremacy but Walker asks what has the global fallout been from our nuclear buildup?

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