![]() You can learn a good deal more about the film over at their engaging homepage or at Myspace. ![]() ![]() There are places where the film edges a bit too close to pathologizing its subjects for my taste, but there's always something to complicate any easy judgment we might want to make about these people and the choices they've made with their lives. The film is hauntingly beautiful, showing us something of the fantasy lives of its protagonists, as well as heartbreaking in its depiction of these men and women, their motives for performing, their professional dreams and disappointments, and the society they have created for themselves. Players for VH1, each of which deals in one way or another with the colorful personalities behind the scenes in sports and show business. Ogens' previous work includes Timeless and The Life for ESPN, ![]() ![]() I first became aware of this film, which depicts the personal lives of the people who perform the parts of superheroes in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, when it played at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin. Earlier this month, documentary filmmaker Matt Ogden released his most recent film, Confessions of a Superhero, on dvd. ![]()
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