From Errol Morris (who brought us the documentaries A Brief History of Time and The Fog of War), we have his unabashed, tell it like it he sees it documentary of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Standard Operating Procedure. Morris pulls no punches with his fairly objective interviews with the who’s who of Abu Ghraib. He carefully constructs a timeline of the goings-on with the effective use of a jumble of photos that have become burned into our hearts and minds.
Movie Review: Standard Operating Procedure
DVD Tuesday: At long last...Norbit!
When I saw in
the theater, there were about 60 people in the audience. Virtually all of them maintained the
appropriate funereal silence as the film was slowly excreted
through the projector.One guy, though,
was apparently watching the funniest movie he had ever seen. I imagine he’s one of the few that will
be lining up to buy
today.For the rest of us, it’s
probably a couple of good docs, some excellent TV, a Jason Alexander boob-heavy curio and
a long overdue (for me, at least) Wack Pack biography.
One dark note this week…the emergence of a new, sinister and completely
unnecessary form of DVD.Actually,
I should say a new form of packaging a DVD since there is not really any fresh
material on these so-called “steelbook”
and “lenticular”
editions.They just look really
shiny.Because I am sick and tired
of studios repackaging crap in new boxes, these releases are consigned to
“after the jump”.
Norbit
Maxed
Out
The
Messengers
Ghosts
of Abu Ghraib
Fired!
Seinfeld:
Season 8
CHiPs:
The Complete First Season
Rescue
Me: The Complete Third Season
Kenneth
Keith Kallenbach: American Icon
Senior
Trip
Fantastic
Voyage (Collector’s Edition)
Twelve
O’Clock High (Special Edition)
Hogan’s
Heroes: The Complete Series
Bruce
Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
Thirty
Seconds Over Tokyo
The
Henry Rollins Show: Season One
SpongeBob
SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Adventures
The
Best of Chappelle’s Show (Uncensored)
The
Good, the Bad & the Ugly: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
Unholy
Matrimony/My Third Wife George (Kinky Couples Double Feature)
French
Quarter
Seizure!
The
Sand Pebbles
TV Junkie: Rudolph; TV On the Radio; Lots of B-ball; Nigella
Tonight - Friday "NBA Basketball" (PRIME, 5:00 p.m.) Clippers @ Spurs "NBA Basketball" (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.) Hawks @ Lakers "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) Yup, the original, with Burl Ives -- come on misfits, tune in! "Primetime" (ABC, 9:00 p.m.) Diane Sawyer visits North Korea "Battlestar Galactica" (Sci Fi, 9:00 p.m.) New episode! "Charlie Rose" (PBS, 11:30 p.m.): journalist John F. Burns, Stephen Colbert(!!), billionaire Anthony O'Reilly "The Tonight Show With...
AM news: the hard stuff
Salon.com has posted photos from the Army's Criminal Investigation Command's complete Abu Ghraib media file. The Army has been trying to keep it under wraps, but it hit the news in Australia this week. Salon's post includes more chilling photos of prisoner abuse by Americans. The Geneva Convention states, in part "the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place...: violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; ... outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment." If you can stand it, check out your tax dollars at work.

