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January 16, 2013

EastBound & Down Videos – The ballad of Kenny Powers

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kenny powers

kenny powers

EastBound and Down videos

Script: http://www.whentheshipcomesin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Eastbound-_Down_script1.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Powers

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January 14, 2013

On Golden Pond (1981)

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on golden pound

on golden pound

On Golden Pond movie review:
[Viewing Time 4.44pm]
[4.46pm] Arrival of a couple; away in the woods at a lake.
Great Vista
Time A country cottage
An elderly couple. The Loons- ducklike birds.
Entry. Dust covers.
Subjective manner by elderly man.
Outside com, the phone. Memory and a
photo. ‘She is’ sentient.Alive.
Time On the pond in the canoe. (more…)

October 30, 2010

The Stoning of Soraya M (2008)

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The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

Score: 6 (10 is max.)

Summary: Astonishing real story of a woman falsely accused of adultery in the sharia Iran of 1986 after the Islamic revolution dictatorship. Based on best seller by Iranian French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam.

Review: Soraya (Mozhan Marnò) lives in a dead end small shah Iranian village with his four children and separated from her husband, Sahebjam. His husband, an ex prison officer, wanted to marry a 14 year old girl but he didn’t wanted to pay for both wives.
For this reason, Soraya finds refuge at her aunt’s, Zarha (Shohreh Aghdashloo) who treats her like her own daughter and veils for her interest and safety. (more…)

September 30, 2010

Machete (2010)

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Machete

Machete - a pissed off Mexican

I saw “MACHETE” last evening ….

From this starting point I must revert to my standard movie review …..

If you want to be edified … Read a book …..
If you want to be uplifted ….. Go to church …..
If you want two hours under industrial air conditioning, with an ice-cold soda and fresh hot popcorn …… Go to a movie …….

The only way this movie will receive any serious critical praise is as an “homage” …… (more…)

August 14, 2010

Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

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cocaine cowboys gang

cocaine cowboys gang

The Cocaine Cowboys I is one of the most interesting crime documentaries ever filmed. And the main reason for this relays on real story behind the scenes and their real protagonists. This is the story of how cocaine first entered the United States in huge amounts, substituted the widely spread consume of pot and became what it is today, a multibillion dollar business, a large scale industry to satisfy the needs of greedy traffickers at both sides of the border and the lust of the consumers. How it eventually became a blood thirsty business, on how this industry kept relocating itself once the heat was too much to handle in some centers, on how smoking guns were the ones settling the terms in this business, on how technology was an organic part of smuggling the substance into USA and on how the traffickers on all parts saw their lives changed at first to become millionaires in months and latter on to see themselves staring the 2 by 2 square meters of a federal penitentiary if they were lucky enough to make it that far and negotiate with the state a deal. (more…)

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