Presumed Guilty, film by Geoffrey Smith (English Patient) and Roberto Hernandez. Mexico’s Judicial System assumes that someone is guilty until proven innocent and hence the documentary film “Presumed Guilty” centered around Toño Zuniga, who is falsely accused of murder in 2005 and receives a twenty year jail sentence. Toño case is not an anomaly, this [...]
LAST TRAIN HOME (2009) – Lixin Fan In China, 130 million migrant workers leave their rural homes to work in the big cities that churn out millions of “Made in China” goods for the consumption of the world. The migrants return to see their children and extended family only once a year on CHINESE NEW [...]
Hollywood is a place where dreams are made but also many are broken. I have mixed feelings about celebrity addiction, particularly super heroes and hence avoided this film for a while. When a friend in Austin recommended this film, I decided to watch it. Matt Ogen’s Confessions of a Super Hero (2007) was a pleasant [...]
SEPTEMBER RELEASES September 17th CATFISH – Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost SYNOPSIS: The vague synopsis explains that filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to document an online relationship that was developing between Ariel’s brother Nev and a girl that he met on the internet. They eventually decided to take a road trip from New [...]
Yesterday, I received a coupon (photo above) in the mail for a free smoothie or frappe at participating McDonalds. I would have tossed it in the bin, but, some words on the flyer that did not seem like English caught my attention. My initial reaction was, it must be Spanish, but it did not sound [...]
RABBIT A LA BERLIN BERLIN WALL DOCUMENTARY from an unusual perspective – A rabbit’s point of view The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When [...]
Where The Mind is Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the [...]
On August 2nd 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and my life changed forever. Yesterday, I watched a documentary on Al Jazeera (Video embedded below), it was so surreal and it brought back memories of my childhood in Kuwait. I can still feel the radiating heat of the summer sand like a hot oven, I can still [...]
Prop 8, officially titled Proposition 8 – Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry was a statewide ballot proposition in California. On November 4, 2008, voters approved the measure and made same-sex marriage illegal in California. On Wednesday, August 4, 2010, a federal judge ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution and [...]
