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This film suggests we had terrorists and hijackers B4 9/11?
Sad but true. Americans and the world have been ''taken for a ride'' by paranoid, militaristic, foolish Nation State Governments and our political ''leaders'' including the latest, Barack Obama, who continue to insist on the necessity of continued warfare against ''Terrorism'' when this film about the German Baader Meinhoff Complex proves and ...
Posted to Movies by MichaelBernard4 on August 23, 2009
Not So Gran Torino
The setting for Gran Torino is the Global Financial Crisis' 'Ground Zero': the suburbs of 'Motor-City' Detroit before the worst of the sub-prime meltdown. I didn't review Gran Torino when it was first released because I was disappointed with it. It deserves big ticks for: good acting; a tight script and topicality. But the crosses are a lot to ...
Posted to Movies by Kevin Rennie on March 25, 2009
The Class: Up close and personal
The Class (Entre Les Murs) was up close and personal for me. The scenes in Laurent Cantet’s French language film took me back to the thousands of hours I spent teaching migrant students in very multicultural secondary schools in Australia. If you’ve ever had much to do with adolescents, it is not hard to empathise with its main character ...
Posted to Movies by Kevin Rennie on February 17, 2009