LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is the second high-profile 2011 documentary to focus on a murder for which men were sentenced to death. But it's a far cry from "Paradise ...

According to a Gallup poll conducted last month, 61 percent of Americans are in favor of the death penalty for those convicted of murder. Only 35 percent are not. It wouldn’t surprise me to see that ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - On an October night in 2001, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett murdered Sandra Stotler in her home with a shotgun blast to the head as she baked cookies. Hours later, they killed ...

Unlikely as it might have seemed 25 years ago, when his documentary jones took off but his “career” was idling in neutral, Werner Herzog has become the indispensable Virgil of 21st-century film space, ...

After all the corny Christmas blockbusters — Oh, you bought a zoo? No one cares — a documentary about a somber topic will be mentally refreshing. Into the Abyss is Werner Herzog’s newest documentary, ...

Anyone who has seen his earlier documentaries, including Grizzly Man or Cave of Forgotten Dreams, would agree that German-born filmmaker Werner Herzog could narrate the Westminster Kennel Club Dog ...

In his films, Werner Herzog has traveled the Amazon, journeyed to Antarctica and, most recently, descended through time into the caves of France to uncover centuries-old cave paintings. So, his trip ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on March 16, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Werner Herzog may not be a household name but he is one of the most respected and ...

Robert Eggers’s movie is the latest cinematic adaptation of the 1922 F.W. Murnau film, itself an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s horror novel. By Jason Bailey In “Theater of Thought,” he ...

The cold indifference of nature can never be reasoned with, controlled, or predicted. It is a pure, merciless hell that taunts humanity’s desire to cultivate the Earth for our own selfish purposes.