Reviews
Wolpaw and Gentile's "Loaded Gun" is a postmodern blast -- funny as well as fulfilling, amusing as well as illuminating. Here Dickinson soars like a butterfly and roars like a B-1 bomber.
Los Angeles TimesLOADED GUN is an absolute delight — informative, inventive, cinematic, and often outrageously funny. Jim Wolpaw has not only deconstructed the documentary format in hilarious fashion but has created a superb and thoughtful educational tool on the life and art of this great poet.
film critic/historian/curatorSomehow, time has made a few curious adjustments to the myth of Emily Dickinson. Nearly a century after her demise, she was the nice poet. She was the serene poet. She was the sad, lonely, unlucky, tragically unsexed poet. All these faces and more of Dickinson appear in Steve Gentile and Jim Wolpaw's brisk, often brilliantly funny documentary. LOADED GUN doesn't require a prior passion for the subject or her work to find any of this entertaining, just a willingness to watch a host of Dickinson diehards change the bulb in their idol's halo.
Boston Globe
