The death of bubbly comedian Brittany Murphy at 32 was puzzling and deeply tragic. The actress, who may be best remembered from her role as burnout turned knockout in Clueless, died under mysterious circumstances in 2009, and gossip and strange rumors persisted for months and years after. Now these rumors and a whole host of new ones will be the subject of at least one film about Murphy and her death. Film School Rejects received a bizarre press report that pronounces "Brittany Murphy.s Mysterious Death Chronicled in Controversial New Documentary; Biopic on the 8 Mile Star to Follow in 2014.. Why a documentary and a biopic you might wonder? Well, that might be because the somehow already controversial doc isn't so much about Murphy as it is about some sort of government conspiracy. Directed by Asif Akbar, the documentary is titled Top Priority: The Terror Within appears to be an adaptation of the...
- 10/25/2012
- cinemablend.com
Title: Top Priority: The Terror Within Director: Asif Akbar An intensely felt but jumbled and poorly reasoned cinematic treatise against governmental bureaucracy run amok and specifically a series of Constitutional rights abuses by the Department of Homeland Security, documentary “Top Priority: The Terror Within” tells the story of Julia Davis, a whistleblower who found herself on the receiving end of a years-long campaign of vindictive persecution. A tangled mess of sprawling and sometimes vague allegations never wrestled into any sort of coherent and compelling shape, the movie chronicles a shocking story, but one that seems better suited to the television news magazine format, or at least a more polished, experienced nonfiction hand. [ Read More ]...
- 7/13/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
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