Errol Morris‘s latest blog post is a reply to some of the people who have commented on his earlier posts, and it’s a fun read. It also includes an intriguing discussion of a dissonance of sorts in his landmark documentary The Thin Blue Line (1988), between one interviewee’s reference to a certain fast-food restaurant and the appearance of an entirely different fast-food restaurant in the re-enactment of that interviewee’s testimony. The film revolves around the question of who shot a... Read more

My third Reel News column is now up at CT Movies, and it mainly concerns Yoko Ono’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — which, as of last week, she is losing — in addition to the usual news links. I also note that Expelled now has a Canadian release date of June 27. Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Sarkar Raj — CDN $65,970 — N.AM $65,970 — 100%Sex and the City — CDN $9,740,000 — N.AM $99,269,000 — 9.8%What Happens in Vegas — CDN $7,040,000 — N.AM $72,230,000 — 9.7%Made of Honor — CDN $4,330,000 — N.AM $44,660,000 — 9.7%The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian — CDN $10,690,000... Read more

I’ve been debating for some time now whether to take my 2-year-old son to see Kung Fu Panda. I took his twin sister to see Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! three months ago, and I have always felt that I owed it to him to take him to see a movie, too. But there aren’t all that many family films out there, and DreamWorks has a spotty track record, so I figured I would see Kung Fu Panda for... Read more

There have been rumours of trouble behind the scenes on The Incredible Hulk, which opens this Friday, but Marvel Studios has had enormous success already this summer with Iron Man — which may turn out to be the only film this summer that grosses over $300 million. And Marvel has already announced its intention to bring all its heroes together in one big cross-over film called The Avengers, three years from now. So is it any wonder that, just to... Read more

The publicity campaign for Religulous, the religion-mocking documentary starring Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles, has ramped up a bit over the last few days. (Prior to this, there was little more than a couple of posters, a couple of photos, and a demo reel and panel discussion at the Toronto International Film Festival — and of course the film comes up whenever Maher does his usual interviews on Larry King and the like.) Click here for Disbeliefnet, a... Read more

Two years ago, Clint Eastwood released a couple of World War II flicks that told the story of a single battle from opposite points of view, one American and one Japanese. Most critics seemed to like Letters from Iwo Jima, the Japanese film, better than Flags of Our Fathers, the American film, but I found Flags much more interesting than Letters, mainly because I’m really interested in the nature of photography and the relationship between mythic images and the mundane... Read more

Has any documentary ever been spoofed like this, or ever become such a pop-culture reference point like this, before? http://www.g4tv.com/lv3/26123Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. (Hat tip to Anne Thompson.) Read more

The Pixar Blog reports that Andrew Stanton, director of Finding Nemo (2003) and the upcoming WALL-E, confirmed today at a junket for the latter film that he is currently developing an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, as has been rumoured for several months now. Read more