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Our 10 Favorite Journalists in Pop Culture

We here at Paste want to honor some of our favorite editors and reporters in film, comics, literature and television.   read more

Sundance 2009: Eleven Documentaries to Wrestle With

In a short video remembrance of Sundance that played before many of the screenings in Park City last week, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim says the "dirty little secret" of the festival is that the best films every year are the documentaries. That may be overstating the case a bit, but it's true that films like Man on Wire, In the Shadow of the Moon, Iraq in Fragments, Trouble the Water, The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierez, and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired are among the most memorable films I've seen at the fest. This year, while I'm not sure I...  read more

Sundance 2009: Taking Chance and Reporter

Well, it's been a busy weekend at Sundance, where I've packed in nearly twenty screenings since the last report. Let me start with a couple that I found particularly good: Taking Chance is a very simple film about Lt. Col. Michael Strobl (Kevin Bacon) who is escorting the body of a fallen PFC named Chance Phelps to his family. In under ninety minutes, the film bears witness to the respectful procedures that the USMC follows in such situations and to the reactions of ordinary Americans who Strobl meets on this particular journey. He doesn't know the Private, and we learn...  read more