Dinesh D'Souza made a movie last year. It was about President Obama, and what the world would look like if he were to win a second term. The outlook: not good. It was critically reviled, but it made truckloads of money so they're getting a sequel.
With a new documentary and biography about the creator of The Catcher in the Rye on the way, we could be learning a lot more about the intensely private author. Here's what we still don't know, and what we might discover next.
Conservative documentary 2016: Obama's America was a surprise box office smash, but does it deserve an Oscar nomination? We look at the numbers.
Horror movies which incorporate the found-footage style are a dime a dozen and just about played out. But we have faith that Barry Levinson and his gaggle of isopods in his new Contagion-Paranormal Activity-Inconvenient Truth mashup, The Bay, will actually buck the odds and be something we like.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Technically the BBC Three documentary, tentatively titled The Batman Shootings, is set to debut one month and three days after the July 20 massacre in Aurora, but that's still very fast.
Here's a first trailer for the new documentary $ellebrity (get it?), a kinda-late-seeming look at paparazzi culture, from both the perspective of the photo shooters and those shot.
If you find yourself, in the midst of all the summer movie season noise and effects, in dire need of something quieter, more human, but no less awe-inspiring, perhaps find the time to check out the new documentary First Position.
Also in books: Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa lands a book deal.
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