Morgan Spurlock

Taxi Wars and Bad Documentaries: Readers Riff

Morgan Spurlock Destroys the Definition of a Documentary With His One Direction Commercial

YouTube/MakingOfPop quiz: Define "documentary." It's a film stitched together from actual events. If a cameraman records a clutter of nervous kids at a spelling bee competition, or a pack of fiends stabbing dolphins in Japan, congratulations, that's a documentary.Or is it? What if a documentary isn' ... More >>

Barely Scratching a Boy Band's Surface in One Direction: This Is Us

Soy Sauce, The Movie: Make Haste Slowly Tells Story of Kikkoman Soy Sauce

It may never come to a theater near you, but a film with heart, soul and soy sauce has been cooked up. Make Haste Slowly is a mini-doc that tells the story of how Kikkoman's ubiquitous condiment came to be such a big hit on tables everywhere. The trailer, now showing on YouTube, is as compelling as ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Grain Mains Is Not Your Average Whole Grain Dinner

Prolific cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough have been on a carnivorous Goat and Ham recipe testing kick in recent years, so perhaps they were having a subconscious Morgan Spurlock post Super Size Me cleansing moment with their latest cookbook, Grain Mains. Or maybe they were simply ... More >>

Wolvesmouth Goes to Comic-Con: Food Nerds Pop Culture Geeks

It's almost universally agreed upon that the food at Comic-Con sucks -- that is, unless you're a fan of floppy pizza slices and soggy hot dogs marked up to movie-theater prices. Yet just like music festivals, gaming conventions and other pop culture gatherings, Comic-Con is experiencing an influx of ... More >>

Zes on His Journey From Graffiti to the Gallery

Zes, aka Zeser, aka Zes AWR/MSK, is a Los Angeles graffiti artist with a feral stare that you might only notice in serial killers or creative geniuses. He's been one of L.A.'s most prolific taggers for many years. If you look up every now and again, you may have noticed his burners in back alleys or ... More >>

Morgan Spurlock, Art Curator? His 'New Blood' Show Opens at Thinkspace

Morgan Spurlock is best known for his documentary Supersize Me, but is also a prolific creator of other works, such as his reality TV show A Day in the Life. When I spoke to him on a recent Friday morning, Spurlock was wrapping up a busy week of press junkets for his new documentary Comic-Con Episod ... More >>

Follow Mario Batali's Croc-Steps in Hulu's "A Day in the Life"

A Day in the Life, a Hulu original series created by Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, is, as the title suggests, a documentary-style show that follows various, usually famous, individuals as they go about their everyday routine. Monday's episode featured a day in the life of Mario Batali, s ... More >>

Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

Handicapping the Oscars out of Toronto won't work this year

Mr. Brainwash Strikes Again! New Piece Sets Venue for His First L.A. Show Since Exit Through the Gift Shop

Shannon Cottrell​ Consider yourself warned. Mr. Brainwash, aka Thierry Guetta, the real guy/fake artist star of Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop is bringing another of his art shows to Los Angeles, and, as evidenced by the new explosion of wheatpaste and red paint on the corner of La Brea a ... More >>

Movies This Weekend: Meek's and a Classic Priest

Meek's Cutoff​ April doesn't always bring the strongest theatrical openings, but this week is a real embarrassment of riches. We cover them all for you below: J. Hoberman reviews Meek's Cutoff, the latest from indie luminary Kelly Reichardt, and notes that while "Meek's Cutoff has a tranced ... More >>

Morgan Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Reviewed

Warning: May Cause the Cure for Cancer

30 Burgers in 30 Days

Five of the best (... so far)

Sundance's Prodigal Children Return

Film festival programmed like re-discovery channel

October Unprocessed: Q & A With Food Blogger Andrew Wilder, Unprocessed Food Man

Want to eat healthier, feel better and live longer? A million suggestions are out there on how to do just that, but a good place to start might be processed foods. As in, not eating them. Doritos, M&M's, Oscar Mayer wieners, McDonald's french fries -- could you do away with them all? Okay, how about ... More >>

FREAKONOMICS

Catfish: Love in the Time of Facebook

Stranger than fiction, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost's film gets at the truth about connecting in the cyber age

Chef Alain Ducasse on French President Sarkozy, Yogurt Chocolate

Do you like really good yogurt and require at least one dose of 85% cocoa chocolate daily? According to an article that ran in last week's Women's Wear Daily, it appears Alain Ducasse considers those of us who think we can live on chocolate alone merely bonbons away from calling Morgan Spurlock abou ... More >>

LAFF 2008: Whiskey Wanted

What to make of a film festival that made its name on indie fare now opening and closing with big-budget summer blockbusters from Universal? In fairness, the folks behind the Los Angeles Film Festival have thought that one out, noting that both WANTED and HELLBOY II are directed by critically acclai ... More >>

Spurlock's Search: Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

The Super Size Me guy goes gunning for Public Enemy No. 1

Movie Reviews: Bra Boys, Super High Me, Alexandra

Also, Young @ Heart, Remember the Daze and more

Sundance Highs and Lows

Moving mountains, growing wings

Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

Also This Christmas, What Would Jesus Buy? and more

Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

Fast Food Nation and For Your Consideration pillory American excess

Crossing Borders

Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days

Reality Without Apologies

Letters

Eat, Drink, Die

McDonald’s loves you — the more of you the better

McNuts

Talking weight gain and liver damage with Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock