Archive for February, 2012

I finally bit the bullet and linked the blog to Facebook. Although I feel the Borg is rising to suck our souls into a massive machine cyborganism, I don’t write anything of a sensitive nature on either platform. It’s best to keep life private from snooping corpoations and to have their content be all public. [...]

We’re now on Facebook as well (if this test proves successful). http://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/

Film Website GMO Frankenfoods and you. See also California’s initiative to force the labeling of GMOs: labelgmos.org

This is NOT a movie review of the recent film, which I have no desire whatsoever to bother with. This is so much more informative and useful… Ayn Rand: the Tea Party’s Miscast Matriarch by PAM MARTENS Gary Weiss, long time Wall Street reporter and author, has written a new book, due out this week [...]

By Jennifer Epps Director Roland Emmerich makes a huge transition, from tentpole disaster flicks to literary whodunit, in the period piece Anonymous — which came out on DVD this month and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design. This speculative fiction feature asks whether Shakespeare was a fraud and comes up with an [...]

The Rum Diary (2011)

Posted: February 26, 2012 in Joe Giambrone
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The Rum Diary may not be a great film, but it is definitely a political film. This Hunter S. Thompson novel unfolds on the island of Puerto Rico in 1960 where Johnny Depp playing a thinly-veiled Thompson, by the name of Paul Kemp, awakens to the realities of the American domination of that territory. Depp, [...]

This is from Occupy The Movie.