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Randy Olson, a marine biologist turned filmmaker and storytelling maven, captured Morano's style in «Sizzle — A Global Warming Comedy» — his prescient 2008 mock documentary on the climate fight.
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In the meantime, when he wasn't earning Emmy nominations for South Park or teaming with longtime partner Parker for the mock - patriotic puppet comedy Team America: World Police (2004), Stone was racking up producer credits on projects like How's Your News — a documentary series featuring disabled reporters exploring various topics — the short - lived political satire That's My Bush, and Kenny Vs. Spenny, which featured two hyper - competitive best friends taking part in a series of outlandish challenges.
Blu - ray extras include audio commentaries on all three films by writer - producer Bob Gale and producer Neil Canton; a nine - part retrospective documentary; a six - part making - of documentary; deleted scenes; Q&A sessions with Zemeckis, Gale and Fox; a 1989 TV special hosted by Leslie Nielsen; pop - up trivia facts; music videos for «The Power of Love» and (from Part III) ZZ Top's «Doubleback»; and mock 2015 commercials plugging the hoverboard and the release of Jaws 19.
The film starts in familiar mock - documentary vein, as a report on the problems surrounding extra-terrestrial presence in, of all places, Johannesburg.
A «rough cut» mock - up of the Tamblyn character Tibby's documentary project on «losers,» Suckumentary, is amusing but a trifle when taken out of context in the film.
«Although Mr. Wiseau complained in his affidavit that the documentary mocks, derides and disparages him and The Room, he did not disclose that The Room's fame rests on its apparently abysmal quality as a movie,» Judge Markus Koehnen wrote.
Both feature commentary on seven episodes by creator Alan Ball, stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer and other members of the cast crew, and the mock - documentary featurettes «The Vampire Report: Special Edition» and «Fellowship of the Sun: Reflections of Light.»
Bill Hader and Fred Armisen masterfully mock existing factual films on each episode of «Documentary Now,» which returns to IFC for its sophomore season this evening.
Academy Award — winning filmmaker Freida Mock has made a documentary on Lamott, entitled Bird by Bird with Annie (1999).
For example, in appropriate cases Lubin & Meyer uses mock juries to predict the response of a real jury in an actual trial situation, or produces documentary films, which graphically and dramatically demonstrate to the jury the effect of an injury on the life of the victim and his family.