Enron & Friends' reviews of movies related to current events

• Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (season 6), ten episodes of the TV show in which two stage magicians challenge widely held irrational beliefs.
• Shoot Down, a documentary covering the 1996 incident in which the Cuban air force shot down two unarmed light planes flown by the organization Brothers to the Rescue.
• King Corn, which examines the crop that fuels our junk-food industry.  One of the best of these earnest little documentaries.
• Sicko, in which Michael Moore takes on the health insurance industry.
• Civic Duty, a hybrid of thriller and social-issue film, addressing the balance of vigilance and paranoia, as an unemployed accountant becomes more and more fixated on watching possibly suspicious activities by his young Arab neighbor.
• Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing, a record on film (or video, anyway) of the furor that erupted when the Dixie Chicks came out against the Iraq war, how the country music media tried to blackball them, and how the conflict invigorated their musical creativity, leading to a comeback and a new audience.
• Free Lisl: Fear And Loathing In Denver, a documentary about the cause that Hunter S. Thompson took up, and carried through to success, in his final years: overturning the conviction of Lisl Auman, who was sentenced to life in prison solely for minor, incidental and peripheral involvement with someone who ended up shooting a cop.
• Memron, a mockumentary about the aftermath of the disintegration of a crooked corporation, which might just possibly have some resemblance to a real life bankrupt company.
• Al Franken: God Spoke, a documentary following the everyday activities of liberal author and radio host Al Franken as he takes on "Lies and the lying liars who tell them", and evolves from comedian to gadfly to activist to, perhaps, candidate for office.
• United 93, the story of the final hijacked airplane on September 11, on which the passengers rose up to stop the hijackers from reaching their target.
• Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, a documentary looking at what kind of people created all the crime and scandal at Enron.

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