Outrage
Kirby Dick has a history of focusing on solid stories and turning them into compelling documentaries--I enjoyed his 2006 exposé of Hollywood's broken ratings system, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, but it didn't tug at my activist conscience quite so strongly as his latest effort. Outrage opens with audio of former Idaho Senator Larry Craig denying having solicited sex from a cop in a bathroom stall in 2007. Then David Phillips tells us he fucked Craig in the early '80s, after which Craig reportedly told him, "Just remember, I can buy and sell your ass 1,000 times." While anyone's sexuality ordinarily wouldn't be any of our beeswax, Outrage makes the point that it sure as hell should be when that person votes against giving medication to AIDS patients.
by Matt Davis