Archive for the 'Media' Category
Cannabis Oil Cures Cancer: “Run From The Cure” The Rick Simpson Story
September 22nd, 2009Documentary Filmmaker Shot Dead in El Salvador
September 4th, 2009Via: CNN: A French filmmaker who recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang in El Salvador was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital city of San Salvador, authorities said. Christian Poveda, 52, was shot at least four times in the face, according to local […]
Your Tax Dollars at Work for Michael Bay
August 19th, 2009Via: David Bordwell: Back in July, when I was watching films at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, I managed to catch several of the films in the Frank Capra retrospective. Two of them, Dirigible (above and left) and Submarine, were surprisingly spectacular, given that at the time Columbia was still a relatively minor studio. It […]
The Fourth Kind
August 19th, 2009I noticed some chatter in a couple of nonsense polluted backwaters about a psychologist and some related cases in the upcoming alien abduction film, The Fourth Kind. At first, I wasn’t going to post anything about this, but to head off people from emailing me about it, I decided to go ahead: I spent about […]
District 9
August 19th, 2009Several people have been suggesting that I should see District 9. The closest movie theater is about a two hour drive from where I live, and I don’t know if District 9 is showing there. (Our local, uh, movie theater, The Swamp Palace, closed down.) I’ll add the film to my Fatso queue and I’ll […]
Electric Eel Power
June 8th, 2009If any filmmakers are reading: Please show us a villain who runs his undersea lair on eel power.
Food, Inc: “A Civilized Horror Movie”
April 20th, 2009Via: Variety: With a constituency limited to anyone who eats, “Food, Inc.” is a civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry. Yes, it has a deceptively cheery palette, but helmer Robert Kenner’s doc — which does for the supermarket what “Jaws” did for the beach — marches straight into […]
Magna Cum Lousy: Where Today’s Bad CEOs Went to School
March 24th, 2009Bad? Business School sophomores will be masturbating to posters of these crooks. They’re heroes to the would-be swindler class. Watch Wall Street again. That thing is timeless—except for the fact that, in real life, the Gordon Geckos of the world generally don’t go to jail. Maybe they’ll get it right in the sequel, Money Never […]
The Obama Deception
March 14th, 2009More: Obama Deception
The International
March 5th, 2009The International – Official Site Via: Wikipedia: Plot Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks, the International Bank of Business and Credit. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of […]
