[Blu-ray]: W. – DVD: W. W. Is Oliver Stone losing his touch? W. is the falsest, least authentic political film I’ve seen in a while. It’s full of bad dialogue that explains and explains for the ten year olds in the audience. It neglects who these people are, Poppy, Rummy, Cheney, Wolfie, and what they [...]
Archive for May, 2010
American Monster
Posted: May 31, 2010 in Joe GiambroneTags: 9/11, Bush Family Fortunes, george w. bush, Greg Palast, Iraq War, Oliver Stone, Presidency
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Shooting Beauty (2010)
Posted: May 16, 2010 in -Tags: disabilities, photography, the arts, the disabled
Go to film’s website “The story of an aspiring fashion photographer whose career takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a hidden world of beauty at a center for people living with significant disabilities.” I have to say that just the trailer made me a little misty.
Blu-ray: Taking Woodstock DVD: Taking Woodstock This is a worthwhile take on the 1969 Woodstock concert. Ang Lee directs the inside story of the unknowing young man who inadvertently unleashed the largest concert in world history on a small farming town in upstate NY. The film is notable for its lead character, a gay, Jewish, [...]
FCC hands Hollywood the keys to your PC, home theater and future
Posted: May 12, 2010 in -Tags: copyright, corporate power, FCC, Hollywood
From Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow at 11:26 PM May 7, 2010. The FCC has given Hollywood permission to activate the “Selective Output Control” technologies in your set-top box. These are hidden flags that allow the MPAA to deactivate parts of your home theater depending on what you’re watching. And it sucks. As Dan Gillmor notes, [...]
The Last Station (2009)
Posted: May 10, 2010 in Binoy KampmarkTags: inheritance, legacy, property, Tolstoy
DVD: The Last StationBlu-ray: The Last Station Vague, Passionate and Erratic: The Last Station by Binoy Kampmark “Tomorrow, I’ll go to the station and lie down on the track. Tolstoy’s wife becomes Anna Karenina herself. See how the papers will like that!” Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren) to Leon Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), The Last Station (2009) [...]
The Coca-Cola Case (2009)
Posted: May 6, 2010 in Billy WhartonTags: Canadian film, coca cola, colombia, documentary, unions
Film’s website: http://films.nfb.ca/the-coca-cola-case/ A Review of the “Coca-Cola Case” Killer-Coke Hits the Screens By BILLY WHARTON “Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola,” Bob Dylan sang in 1971, “Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!” After forty years of corporate globalization, Dylan would be hard pressed to find a place that isn’t [...]
Derivatives Come to the Movies
Posted: May 4, 2010 in Ellen BrownTags: debt, derivatives, financial markets, Hollywood, insider trading
Will Hollywood Go the Way of Enron? Derivatives Come to the Movies By ELLEN BROWN As if attacks from paparazzi and star-crazed fans weren’t enough, Hollywood stars may soon have a literal price put on their heads by investors in the Cantor Exchange, a real-money trading platform where people can bet on the gross profits [...]
