In his review of Robert Greenwald’s new film Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices, Salon.com film critic Andrew O’Hehir laments “the way documentary film has become a branch of advocacy journalism.” While O’Hehir proceeded with a mostly positive review of the film, I’d like to take brief issue with his stance on this [...]

From an e-mail sent by Robert Greenwald, the film’s director:
“The response — as you might expect from a multi-billion dollar company — has been swift, ruthless, mean and vitriolic. Six weeks after we announced the film in June, Wal-Mart hired Ronald Reagan’s image guru, and one of Bill Clinton’s media consultants to set up the [...]

In what should resound as proof that Wal-Mart has no factual ammunition to respond to the accusations due to be levied on November 1st with the release of Robert Greenwald’s new documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” good old Megalo-Mart has hired them a tried and true media team. Comprised of political strategists [...]

I wasn’t a fan of Robert Greenwald’s last major film, Outfoxed, for a variety of reasons, mostly formal. First, it was a technical mess–repeating itself over and over while appearing to be edited by a high-schooler on iMovie. From a content perspective, while the film was well-intentioned, it was preaching a message that should [...]