The Useless Critic 2.0

"Adjust Your Tracking" is a documentary about VHS fanatics. Read on to learn more about this project, which is gaining a lot of press at the moment:  Zach: To begin, can you tell us a little about "Adjust Your Tracking" and how it came to be? Dan: Well, it all started with my love for the VHS format. I slowly began meeting other collectors and realized they were funny enough, interesting enough and worthy enough for a documentary. I also thought it was important to document this subculture/resurgence of collectors. We had the idea and did some pre-production work in 2011, but really started filming in January 2012. From that point on it really took off. We started a Kickstarter to raise gas money to get the rest of the interviews we needed and just interviewed and shot as much footage as humanly possible. Zach: Are you pleased with the overall reaction to "Adjust Your Tracking," so far? Dan: I'm very pleased with the reaction. I have ...

There are many pros and cons involved with documentary film making. I even had one friend once that stated “I don’t watch documentaries. They’re too one-sided.” Of course, I doubt I would ever have the ability to the live that type of life, but many documentaries do present a single one-sided point of view. All that aside, the major pros of documentary film making is that they are able to showcase the truth of real life to the world and present the general public and wide ranges of audiences with critical information. After watching “Mugabe and the White African” on the 30 day Free Netflix Trial, that point has never sounded so clear. This documentary follows a white Caucasian farm-owning family living in Zimbabwe, and they receive a type of 21st Century discrimination. The film begins with a quote from Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, where he states he will be Hitler “Ten Fold.” That’s exactly it. I would have thought that someone was spreading that as a joke, if it hadn't co...

Last evening I had the amazing opportunity to attend a screening of the Feist documentary, Look At What the Light Did Now . When I first heard about a documentary being made on one of my favorite musicians of all time, I was beyond excited, especially since the documentary (the title of which is taken from a song by Little Wings, who's singer appears somewhere in the film - and who I saw open for Dirty Projectors last Halloween, randomly) would mainly chronicle the making of Feist's lastest album, 2007's The Reminder . Actually, fuck that, I was SHAKING AND CRYING. I caps-locked it to all of Twitter and Tumblr, knowing only one or two people would care, and I snatched up tickets as soon as I heard about it. First of all, the screening was held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery which, of course, brings a spooky feel to the evening, as it's almost Halloween, and well, we're in a freaking cemetery in Hollywood, where Rudolph Valentino, Estelle Getty, and my friend'...

It's just interesting, and I saw the woman from this film on Judge Judy. In other words, it's fun to look at people less classy than yourself. So enjoy it Dammit!! Warning: This documentary is almost as graphic as Sailor Moon!! (if you look at the subtext)

I am so happy he won for best feature documentary. I've been a fan of his stuff for so long..... From "Early Edition." To "Factotum," to "The Cove." So many great things that have come from him Fisher Stevens rules!!

Sup homedogs? Hope everyone is recovering from Thanksgiving (or, um, not) nicely. I ate far too much turkey and pumpkin pie and I'm probably going to have to run about 100 miles to make up for it. But that's not important. This is: Okay, not gonna lie, this is going to be the best documentary EVER, and I love me some documentaries. Basically, it follows four babies from around the world (Mongolia, Namibia, Japan, and California) for the first year of their lives. Isn't that cool? I think it's a fantastic idea. And the babies are adorable. It has the potential to become massively successful. What do you think? More importantly, if they were to fight to the death (or, um, in a competition for the World's Cutest Baby), which baby would you root for? (Namibia Baby FTW!!!)