In Jane’s Journey, German filmmaker Lorenz Knauer chronicles Dr. Goodall’s personal evolution to become the iconic activist environmentalist she is today, and follows her on her tireless travels to help poor people by bringing hope and practical solutions into their lives. Read more>>

Back in 1960, a naïve 23 year-old woman sailed from London to Kenya with a pencil, a notebook and a playful passion to study chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Jane Goodall had no university degree but, through observation and dedication, she became the most well-known primatologist of our times. Read more

After the love for yesterday’s post about directors dissing directors, here’s moviemorlocks.com on classic actors slamming their co-stars, with Marlon Brando and Bette Davis on the receiving end of the most derision. Read more

Harking back to when buddy caper-comedies were popular, this re-boot teams nerdy Nick (Jesse Eisenberg), an aimless pizza-delivery guy, with bumbling Chet (Aziz Ansari), a substitute schoolteacher pal and his reluctant roommate, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read more

Gloria Steinem in her own words….and also yours: In 140 characters, write what you want the future of feminism to look like. Read more>>

Chronicling Gloria Steinmen’s career, mostly through her on camera commentary about her past exploits, the film serves as a tribute to the woman at the center of the women’s movement and a history of that movement and women’s struggles for equal rights. Ms. Steinem is brilliant, charming and very personal in her revelations. Read more>>

Tate Taylor’s film of Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller about housewives and their maids in Kennedy-era Mississippi, which boasts Oscar-caliber performances by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, sidesteps the pitfalls of movies like Mississippi Burning while providing sneers for the “Mad Men”-deprived. Read more>>

Chasing Madoff is a cloak and dagger documentary about how governement regulators failed to heed whistleblower Harry Makopolis’ warnings that Bernie Madoff’s empire was a house of cards. Filmmaker Jeff Prosserman cloaks the documentary in film noir style. Read more>>

A former member of the radical Earth Liberation Front mulls over whether to take a plea bargain while recalling his journey from Queens cop’s son to environmental activist in a trenchant documentary from Marshall Curry (Street Fight) that questions the broadening definition of “terrorist,” if only to fill those “enhanced” post-9/11 prisons. Read more>>

Filmmakers Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman present the story of Daniel McGowan, former Earth Liberation Front (ELF) activist who is facing life imprisonment for ‘environmental terrorism’ — or, more specifically, arson against northwest US lumber companies and national parks. The compelling documentary stirs public debate about the definition of terrorism, especially in the post-9/11 security environment. Read more>>