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Taxi to the Dark Side is a riveting and deeply disturbing exploration of the Bush administration’s policy on torture and interrogation.
It focuses on the controversial death in custody of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who in 2002 was beaten to death by US soldiers at the Bagram Air Base.
Directed by Alex Gibney (who made [...]

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The UK DVD of Taxi to the Darkside came in the post this morning (a full review of the disc will be up soon) but my eagerness to watch it was tempered somewhat by more news about the ongoing dispute between director Alex Gibney and THINKFilm, the US distributor of the film.
Basically, Gibney is extremely [...]

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This is the first trailer for Religulous, the new documentary about religion with Bill Maher.

> Check out the official website for the film (which is very funny)
> Bill Maher discussing the film last year with Larry King on CNN
> IMDb entry for Religulous

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Morgan Spurlock explored the health effects of eating McDonald’s food for a month in his 2004 documentary Super-Size Me.

Now, after the success of his TV series 30 Days, he returns to the big screen with Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, a look at where the world’s most wanted terrorist might be and [...]

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US comedian and talkshow host Bill Maher has a new documentary about religion coming out later this year called Religulous.
His recent monologue about Catholicism on his HBO show Real Time has recently been causing some debate in the US:

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