This last weekend I happened upon three "documentaries." I put the word in quotation marks because out of the three, only one looked and performed like what I'd consider a traditional documentary. Here's what I saw:
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Actually, you can watch this documentary online. I'll even embed it here, so go nuts because it's great and relatively short (one hour).
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This last weekend I happened upon three "documentaries." I put the word in quotation marks because out of the three, only one looked and performed like what I'd consider a traditional documentary. Here's what I saw:
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Actually, you can watch this documentary online. I'll even embed it here, so go nuts because it's great and relatively short (one hour).
PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES from EELS on Vimeo.
If it's not working or if you'd prefer to know what the documentary Read more [...] 
... and it turns out it's got nothing do to with pimps. Well, not normally, at least.
Let's take a step back for a moment. I'm referring not to the Scarlet Pimpernel, but rather The Black Pimpernel, a Swedish/Chilean movie released a few years ago. It tells the story of the Swedish ambassador to Chile during the 1970s Pinochet revolution. He saved around 1,300 people from likely death, and is often compared to Oskar Schindler.
The movie was pretty good, although it does seem to take a bit of 
Good evening! We're back today with an admittedly enormous post to continue our 2012 review. It's so long that it even has two authors, who both took on new identities; Now Ryan and Paul are calling themselves the Sitzchowski Brothers in homage to the Wachowskis, the sibling pair who co-directed Cloud Atlas (along with director Tom Tykwer... but unless we can convince Jake to play "Tom Jykewer," then we'll just have one author fewer than the movie has directors). We'll begin with Paul's argument