Steven Miller Movies
The bumbling cops of Comedy Central's hit television series take a trip to Miami Beach for a national police convention. After the trip there turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated, the bumbling crew must leap into action when the convention center becomes the target of a biological terrorist attack. Lieutenant Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) must keep together his motley and inept crew in order to save everyone from the disaster, and keep peace on the streets of the popular Florida city. The film features the same cast from the popular Comedy Central series of the same name. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lennie Loftin, Danny DeVito, (more)
- 2006
- PG
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The ongoing argument about how human beings arrived on Earth is examined in this documentary. Scientist and ecologist turned filmmaker Randy Olson was born and raised in Kansas, where public schools have often been the scene of battles between advocates of intelligent design, and scientists who show evidence that supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Wanting to know more about both sides of the ongoing debate, Olson interviews intelligent design spokespeople (including Michael Behe, Jack Cahill, and John Calvert) and lets them speak their mind while also pointing out the many holes in their argument. Olson also chats with a number of leading scientists and colleagues who explain why evolution has become accepted the world over, but as Olson notes, the pro-evolution speakers often sound smug and arrogant when they express their views, while the intelligent design advocates generally seem pleasant and polite, if more than a little misguided. So can these two sides learn to speak to one another? Can science survive its own spokespeople? And what intelligent designer would come up with the rabbit, which has to eat its own feces to digest new food? A Flock of Dodos: The Evolution -- Intelligent Design Circus received its world premier at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Randy Olson, Muffy Olson, (more)
- 2002
Some might say that the town of Jasper, TX, is an example of how much progress has been made in race relations in the South and West over the past 50 years. A community whose population is divided almost equally between African-American and white residents, Jasper has a black mayor, and an integrated city council and police department. However, it soon became obvious that there was still a deep well of racial disharmony in Jasper on June 7, 1998, when James Byrd Jr., an African-American, was brutally beaten by three white men (John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Allen Berry), who then tied his body to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him down a gravel road for three miles, until he was dead. This shocking crime made headlines around the world, and documentary filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow came to Jasper to make a film about the incident, and about the sort of city where such an event could occur. Williams, who is African-American, interviewed 15 black citizens of Jasper, while Dow, who is Caucasian, interviewed a like number of white residents, and the differing perspectives on both sides of the issue are brought together as King, Brewer, and Berry are tried for their crimes. The Two Towns of Jasper was shown in competition at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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