Press Reviews

The Big Issue in Scotland | Date 5 March 2009
Obama backs The Age of Stupid

President Barack Obama’s green credentials have been bolstered again this week after it was revealed the White House requested a preview screening of new environmental warning movie The Age Of Stupid.

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The Skinny | Date 5 March 2009
The Age of Stupid Comes to Scotland

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Societás | Date 5 March 2009
The Age of Stupid

Mark Lynas, author of "Six Degrees has said of The Age of Stupid "The most powerful piece of cultural discourse on climate change ever produced." George Monbiot, journalist & author said "It is a captivating and constantly surprising film: the first successful dramatisation o

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treehugger.com | Date 4 March 2009
"Age of Stupid" - So Is We, Or Isn't We?

I've just viewed Wall•E, that precocious Disney/Pixar look at a future in which the robots are smart while the humans are fat blobs of over-pampered flesh unable to live on the (literally) trashed Earth.

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reignofterroir.com | Date 3 March 2009
'A clear call to action'

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The Guardian | Date 28 February 2009
The people's premiere

Saturday interview The people's premiere Made by 'amateurs' with cash from 'crowd-funding', the new film by Franny Armstrong aims to create 250 million climate change activists

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BBC Radio Five Live | Date 25 February 2009
Pete Postlethwaite on Five Live with Simon Mayo

        Pete talks to Simon Mayo on BBC Radio Five Live about The Age of Stupid. Download mp3 from bottom of this page.

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Don't Panic | Date 25 February 2009
The Age of Stupid - review

Director Franny Armstrong has carved a niche in hard-hitting David vs Goliath documentaries, most notably with McLibel, the story of Britain's longest ever legal case. Here, in The Age of Stupid, she chooses an even bigger target for reproach; the human race.    

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The Curious Diary of Mister Jam | Date 25 February 2009
The Age of Stupid has arrived

THANKS for all the mail and ideas about pointless world records. I was definitely wrong about bra-related world records. This is clearly a good choice of subject for generating interest and not pointless at all. Definitely worth a follow-up.

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Little White Lies | Date 24 February 2009
The Age of Stupid - review

Nothing promotes apathy quite like being preached at, so it’s great to find that the latest  ‘captivating’ and ‘powerful’ eco-documentary, The Age of Stupid, is actually a captivating and powerful piece of filmmaking as well as a call-to-arms to help the planet.

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