A man who was almost undefinable - Hunter S. Thompson is the focus of Alex Gibney’s latest documentary:

While we mostly think of crazy and drugs when we think of Thompson today - his political mark can’t be denied

And as the trailer suggests, maybe we need a Hunter S. Thompson today..

it also includes Thompson’s writing, the what and the why of it, how he used falsehoods to expose falsehoods, how his irrational prose was the best possible device he could use to capture irrational times. And it also conveys how those times are still in some way with us, or how they never went away; split-screens contrast bombing in Vietnam with bombing in Iraq, executions in the streets of Saigon with torture in the rooms of Abu Ghraib. [Cinematical]

Even though Thompson isn’t around, you can still takepart and help when it comes to Abu Ghraib.

Also, read on:

• On Grassroots Progressives in the US
• Gibney’s life and work
• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson