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The documentary category is where Hollywood wears its conscience on its sleeve, and this Oscar season's nominees have the politically engaged members of the industry buzzing more than usual over the range and variety of topics. Partly, that's because the...

THERE'S a montage in the middle of James Spooner's documentary "Afro-Punk" in which young, African American punk rockers talk about their hair. Particularly, how hard it is to fashion naturally curly hair into the genre's trademark — a towering...

The true test of a successful comedy DVD, like the albums of the past, is its ability to create laughter and memorable, quotable lines outside of the theater setting without the benefit of that audience high, which makes everything funnier. Joey Medina'...

"Dylan Speaks," a DVD from Eagle Media, lets us revisit a revealing moment in the career of the revolutionary young poet named Bob Dylan — a scene that underscored how difficult it was for the mainstream media to make sense of the most important...

More than anything else Paul Hough's "The Backyard" attests to the power of television. The revival of wrestling on TV in a more extreme form in recent years has been accompanied since the mid-1990s by the phenomenon of teenagers and young men staging...

Friday April 13, 2001      In the first scene of "Chopper," based on the exploits of real-life Australian ex-con Mark Brandon Read, a newcomer to Melbourne's Pentridge Prison is told by a highly territorial, ferocious-looking older con not to step over a...

"Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored," Clifton Taulbert's memoir of growing up in the segregated South, has become a splendid and virtually unique film.      It celebrates how black families survived despite an oppressive, monolithic and often...