If Roger Ebert can come out in favor of gun control and the argument that the Second Amendment was ratified to protect slavery (see my blog below on this ludicrous argument), I can comment on films--even though I haven't seen them. This is roughly equivalent to Roger Ebert commenting on gun control and the Second Amendment.
First, for the "Is this a great country or what?" file consider "Warm Bodies." Zombie movies have been a staple of the horror scence since George A. Rombero's 1968 "Night of the Living Dead." A number of cities have had Zombie pub-crawls. Given the popularity of teen vampire romance movies, it was only a matter of time till we get the "teen Zombie" romance film. Here it is, in all its glory "Warm Bodies." I like "good" zombie films. However, this one will probably not qualify, and I really don't want to be in a movie theater with hundreds of screaming pre-teen and teenage girls. What's next? I don't even want to think about it.
Second, for those interested in crime law and justice, consider "West of Memphis" a documentary about the wrongul conviction of the "West Memphis Three" who were convicted of murdering three Cub Scouts. A 1988 documentary about a wrongful conviction in Texas for murdering a police officer is "The Thin Blue Line."
Anyone know of any other good documentaries on wrongful convictions/convictions of the innocent?
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