Entertaining as always: a mixed season, with some hits and some misfires. You’d think they’d have run out of good subject matter, but that’s not the case. This season they tackle such evils as the war on porn, new age medicine, the green lifestyle, and sensitivity training. Who else can hold up the collective American condition so effectively, yet be
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Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 6
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 5
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 5 carries on the comic magicians’ Showtime series in which they debunk one or another contemporary myth or collective assumption about the way in which we live. The fifth season of this award-winning series featuring master showmen Penn & Teller, delivers viewers an aggressive, humorous exposé of taboo topics
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 4
Libertarians may rejoice over the release of Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t – Season 4, another collection of Showtime’s provocative series debunking popular theories and so-called conventional wisdom. Hosted with an infectious sneer by skeptic-magicians Penn & Teller, Bullsh*t takes on issues of varying levels of seriousness and controversy, puncturing
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 3
The third season of this award-winning series featuring master showmen Penn & Teller, delivers viewers an aggressive, humorous exposé of taboo topics, using the duo’s trademark humor, knowledge of carnival tricks as well as hidden cameras and blatant confrontation. Winner of the prestigious 2004 and 2005 Writer’s Guild Award for Best Comedy/Variety Series
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 2
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 2 marks the return of the self-proclaimed pit-bulls for the truth, set out to prove that many of the institutions society holds dear are bogus and designed to profit from the desperate and trusting public. Each of the 13 episodes includes interviews and undercover segments intertwined with Penn & Teller’s comedy. With zeal, passion
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! – Season 1
In the investigative tradition of master illusionist and early 20th-century ghostbuster Harry Houdini, magicians Penn Jillette and partner Teller debunk the paranormal in their wildly entertaining Showtime series, Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! The first season of this unusual show finds the garrulous Penn and silent Teller taking aim, over 13 episodes, at such perennial hokum
The Invention of the Parking Meter
This is short pilot documentary from the series The Unauthorized History of Inventions by Izzy Abrahami and Erga Netz. The parking meter was invented in 1935 by Carl C. Magee in Oklahoma City, OK. The world’s first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on July 16, 1935. Industrial production started in 1936 and expanded until the mid ’80s.
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
There’s no doubt Morgan Spurlock is a brave man. In Super Size Me, the director subsisted on junk food for 30 days and suffered the consequences. In 2006, after finding out his wife, vegan chef Alexandra Jamieson (who features in his previous effort), is pregnant, Spurlock takes action–John McCain style–to secure a more peaceful planet for his unborn child. In Where in the
Fishing With John: Criterion Collection
The thought of watching somebody fishing is, to me, the height of existential folly. As Estragon says in Becket’s Waiting for Godot, Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful. Thus was my apprehension great when faced with the task of watching 147 minutes of men fishing. However, my delight was substantial when I found myself completely
An Evening with Kevin Smith
To know the origin of Snoochie-Boochies, you must spend An Evening with Kevin Smith. The Jersey-bred auteur of low-budget comedy proves equally adept as an uncensored raconteur, regaling five college audiences – his most devoted demographic – in this two-disc compilation of lively Q&A. Sporting his trademark slacker garb, Smith occasionally bites the