‘The Queen of Versailles” has earned a lot of hype over the past few months, scoring considerable praise from critics and the Sundance Film Festival. The notion that such a film could resonate with anybody other than the 1 percent baffles me. This is a movie about unsympathetic billionaires that are so self-centered that they had to make a documentary about their alleged financial struggle. To refer to it as a “documentary” would diminish the value of the genre. “The Queen of Versailles” is nothing more than a reality show stretched to an hour and 40 minutes that belongs with the likes of the Kardashians on E!

Featuring 30 bathrooms, 10 kitchens, three pools and every amenity under the sun, David and Jackie Siegel planned to create the largest house in America…that is, until the economy came tumbling down. “The Queen of Versailles,” a new documentary from renowned photographer Lauren Greenfield, chronicles the rise and fall of these real-estate moguls and gives an intimate glimpse behind their mansion walls.

“The Queen of Versailles” has earned a lot of hype over the past few months, scoring considerable praise from critics and the Sundance Film Festival. The notion that such a film could resonate with anybody other than the 1% baffles me. This is a movie about unsympathetic billionaires that are so self-centered that they had to make a documentary about their alleged financial struggle. To refer to it as a “documentary” would diminish the value of the genre. “The Queen of Versailles” is nothing more than a reality show stretched to an hour and forty minutes that belongs with the likes of the Kardashians on E!

The documentary "The Queen of Versailles" begins life as a juicy guilty pleasure, allowing us to gawk and cluck at the nouveau-riche ostentation of an elderly time-share mogul and his much-younger trophy wife as they build their dream home: a 90,000-square-foot palace that would be the biggest house in America.

Brian White, the pilot, found his calling in the clouds. Nick Boehle, the businessman, was spreading his medical companies across the West.

Storms smacked the Southeast Valley this weekend as heavy rain flooded roads, stranding one driver, causing another to flip and prompting some road closures.

An internal investigation has determined that a Gilbert patrolman was in the wrong when he drove through a red light in October with his squad car lights running but without the siren

Lily Spurlock of Highland defeated Heather Cullen of Desert Ridge, 11-9, 11-6, to take the singles crown, and Alheli Jacquez and Olivia Li of Chandler defeated Lex Rakowski and Emily Bowker of Mesquite to win the doubles championship of the Fiesta Region badminton tournament Tuesday at Mesquite High School.