A few years ago, Morgan Spurlock was watching a season premiere episode of "Heroes." In it, a cheerleader, played by Hayden Panettiere, meets her father as she walks out of her new school and heads toward the parking lot.
Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me") has this habit of making documentaries that come hidden in the Trojan horse of silly and then stab at your conscience. If you still have one.
Yesterday independent film's glitterati bundled up in their sweaters and ear muffs for the start of the Sundance Film Festival. And since we all know that today's Sundance movies are tomorrow's breakout hits and the movies we'll all be betting on come next year's award season, here are eight movies on the lineup that have me salivating. Here's hoping they'll be in theaters soon.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock talks about adapting the New York Times bestseller "Freakonomics".
Where's Osama?
updated: Fri Apr 18 2008 16:20:00
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock documents the search for Osama bin Laden.
Morgan Spurlock scored a breakout hit with his documentary "Super Size Me" a few years ago, mixing satire, reportage and advocacy in the tabloid style popularized by Michael Moore. Spurlock may not have finished off junk food as we know it, but at least he could claim some responsibility for highlighting the flaws of fast food.
Searching for Osama bin laden, the Super Size Me guy has an extremist adventure
In his latest high-concept film, Morgan Spurlock went looking for Osama. Did he find him? Was that even the point?
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's quest to find Osama Bin Laden is documented in a new film premiering at Sundance.
"Film Takes Place" was the obligatory meaningless slogan for this year's Sundance Film Festival. In the logo, the word "place" was artfully wrapped in the center of what looked like a lollipop -- or was it a stop sign?
The Kenth brewery in Ystad, Sweden, is anything but a giant corporation.
Americans don't fare well in novelist John Burdett's Thailand.
An advocacy group Friday accused sandwich chain Subway Restaurants of being "anti-American" because the tray liners that the company is currently using in Germany display an obese Statute of Liberty and a German word that it claims is a pejorative term for Americans.
"Shrek 2," a cartoon revolving around a green ogre and his princess bride, trampled even the most optimistic forecasts as it set several new opening records at the weekend box office and kick-started the lucrative summer moviegoing season into high gear.
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