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Review: 'Point and Shoot'
Review: 'Point and Shoot'

Meeting Matthew VanDyke in the documentary "Point and Shoot," we learn that the would-be filmmaker from Baltimore motorcycled across Africa and south central Asia with unusual personal peculiarities. At 29, the timid "only child of an only child of an only child" decided that he didn't understand his impending manhood. He set out to film and star in thrilling overseas odysseys, casting himself as a "swaggering, egotistical" explorer with the assumed name Max Hunter. VanDyke launched the overseas project despite thoughts and fears ruled by obsessive-compulsive disorder. He dreaded damaged shoes, germs, dirty hands and sugar. He was consumed by anxiety...