Andy Garcia _The Lost City_
This film is a labor of love for the Cuban-born Garcia.http://www.newsmax.com/archive..."In a movie about the Cuban revolution, we almost never see any of the working poor for whom the revolution was...
View ArticleWomen Presidents and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
With all the counter-attacks to PARC that zone in on "embarrassing" in-print moments of Ayn Rand, most notably the "About A Woman President" essay, I found this kind of interesting. I had just reread...
View ArticleA Few Favorites
Here are a few of my favorites..what are yours?Gattaca Equilibrium Men of Honor Good Night, and Good LuckYou'll probably notice a theme in those i mentioned above. That's one type of movie i like, of...
View ArticleBorat
I honestly don’t know what to make of Borat. It’s controversial. It’s definitely politically incorrect. It is over-the-top. There may be some legitimate satire, but there is also some unfairness. Where...
View ArticleAmerican Pastime
This movie is very personal to me. It is about Japanese Americans interned in a relocation center during World War II and the prejudice of white Americans against Japanese people living in America...
View ArticleLetters From Iwo Jima
This was a great anti-war movie, showing the battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective. There were the fircely patriotic Japanese who considered it an honor to die for their country and treated...
View ArticleThe Chocolate War
After a great movie like Letters from Iwo Jima, The Chocolate War seemed kind'a lame. However, it was about a boy who stood up to the informal organization within a Catholic school which tried to...
View ArticleBabel
Babel is a great movie for recognizing identifiable characteristics of humans of diverse races and cultures. The hills of Morocco, where turbin wearing farmers and villagers tend to their sheep, seems...
View ArticleBlood Diamond
We see Leonardo DiCaprio as the leading white man in the movie, which was really about a black man trying to get his family back after a warlord attacked his village and killed off several people while...
View Article#01 Little Mosque on the Prairie
Episode #01, Little MosqueIn this very exciting episode our cheeky Canuck Muslims get out of the basement and start praying in their very own Mosque- which they dishonestly co-opt from the local...
View ArticleLHP #2: The Barrier
Little Mosque on The Prairie, Episode 2: The BarrierIn this installment of the Canadian TV sitcom about Muslims in Sasketchewn the sexes battle it out! When the overly anal Babar convinces the new Imam...
View Article#3 Little Mosque on the Prairie
It's episode three!This time our silly hokus-pokus worshippers open the doors to their Mosque to the public. They want to show heathensinfidelsCrusaders people what their religion is about, but they're...
View Article" Pan Labyrinth
Recently I saw this movie which has been higly recommended by most reviewers.This movie made me literally sick. The visual monstrosity and ugliness is comparable only to Mel Gibson's " Passion of Jesus...
View Article#4 Little Mosque on the Prairie
Rayann and Fatima want a female attendent so they can go swimming at the local pool. They can't be seen by a male lifeguard, even if he is gay!Meanwhile, it's Haloween and Babar finds he can accumulate...
View Article#5 Little Mosque on the Prairie
A new convert to Islam comes to the Little Mosque. A first everyone is pleased, but the white boy turns out to be an even more of a stick in the mud than Babar!It's not long before the new convert has...
View Article#6 Little Mosque on the Prairie
Episode Six: The Archdeacon CommethWhen the Archdeacon (played by Colin Mocharie of Whose Line is it Anyway fame)inspects the Church the Muslims decide to pitch in to swell the congregation...by...
View Article#7 Little Mosque on the Prairie
Little Mosque on the Prairie, episode 7...Yassir's Mother comes to town and tries to get him to take a second wife.Meanwhile, when two gay men want to be married the Christians and the Muslims have to...
View ArticleMusic Vid: We Are Not That
A Pakastani pop song is doing rather well just at the moment. Not so much here in the USA, I mean in Pakistan.It's called "Yeh hum naheed" which translates into "We are not that."[click pic link to...
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