Manufactured history guarantees a manufactured controversy: Gabriel Range’s Death of a President, which docu-dramatizes the 2007 assassination of George W. Bush, has been preceded by long, raucous ...

In 1997’s The Apostle, Robert Duvall took on a subject near and dear to his heart: Southern Pentecostal preachers. No one would make the film for him, so he went ahead and directed it himself, ...

Making a movie about your deepest passion can be tricky. Dive too deeply into the passion and its surrounding culture and you'll bore most of your audience. But if you take the "introduction" tack -- ...