Review: Exit Through The Gift Shop

Ever met someone who films what seems to be every moment of every little occasion? Maybe you had one of those dads that was there with his video camera for every birthday party, every Christmas, every moment of your family vacation. Hard to believe they want to record that much, right?


Well, they've got nothing on a man named Thierry Guetta. A Frenchman who migrated to the states in 1980s, Guetta became infamous by everyone he knew (and didn't know) for shooting every second of his life with a video camera. And why I say every second, I mean every second.

Review: Babies

Documentaries are tricky things to make. The subject has to be interesting enough for mass appeal while at the same time offering something new. If you get too objective, people are turned off. If you don't edit your film in a way that creates a story that people want to follow, they'll get bored.

At it's surface, Babies, a new documentary from filmmaker Thomas Balmes, sounds intriguing, but not necessarily fascinating or worthy of your time. In essence, the film is about the first year of four babies' lives, all of them from different places in the world.

Already from that premise you start to lose people who don't like kids or hear the word and think "screaming kid on the airplane/in the movie theater".

So the question remains-is Babies worth your time and money, even if you fall into said category? Read on to find out...