Angelina Jolie as Mariane Perl
Daniel Pearl was a happy American journalist, from a New Jersey Jewish family, serving as South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal in Mumbai. He traveled to Karachi, with his french wife and also journalist, Mariane (Van Neyenhoff), to cover the alleged connection between Richard Reid (the “shoe bomber”) and Al-Qaeda.
The movie based on the book of Mariane Pearl, Daniel Pearl’s widow, on the tragic and brutal capture of Daniel in Karachi, the huge port city of Pakistan, in 2002.
Daniel requested an interview with one of the well know and connected islamist militant named Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, on its way to the restaurant were they were to meet, on February the 1st 2002, Daniel never returned and was captured by the The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty (NMRPS). (more…)
A research documentary on Soviet crimes against humanity, from the communist revolution till the fall of the USSR. The film will make a historic review on the ideology that justified the mass killings of other ethnic groups in order to establish a reign of terror. This same measures of State terrorism will be copied by the Nazis latter on during WWII in the extermination of 12 million Jews. (more…)
Obviously the most used word in Baader Meihof is scheize. Apart from all the politics involved in this movie, it´s an action movie about this left wing German terrorist group of the 70´s Red Army Faction (RAF), its terrorists acts, their way of planning, thinking, collaborating with other terrorist groups, etc,… Action is mediocre, actors are not something and the story is one of blood, brain washing and westerners-trying-to-find-something-to-fight-for youngsters but chose the wrong cause shaking hands with others blood thirsty terror groups like the Palestinians ones of the 70´s. (more…)
Denzel Washington, as usual, has a strong presence in front of the camera. Here, he tells an interesting story that touches on science and terrorism. (more…)