American Justice Many people are aware of the name Huey Newton, but when some are asked, they are unable to explain to others the reason why. The co founder of Black Panther Party managed to turn many heads in 1967 when he was shot during a brief encounter with a cop. The Black Panthers were […]
Mr. Manhattan MR. MANHATTAN, airing on Great American Family, is a romantic comedy that goes straight to the heart. Highly successful corporate lawyer Mason hopes to make partner at his prestigious New York firm. However, tragedy strikes when his brother dies and leaves him with two young children to raise as his own. Mason realizes
Ultimate Justice The movie I have been looking forward to Ultimate Justice for a while, the combination of Mark Dacascos Mike Möller and Matthias Hues spells a lot of broken necks. As far as tears, violence and action great body counts are concerned Ultimate Justice lives up to the expectations even though some of the
Tetris If I could see a historical record of how many hours I’ve played Tetris through all the different versions on Game Boy and every ripoff since I’d probably pass out at the lost productivity. There’s something about Tetris. It gets in you; you just want to play one more game, again and again. The
Freud’s Last Session C.S. Lewis probably never met Sigmund Freud. He had many great opportunities to correspond with great minds of his day but there is no evidence that the great psychologist was one of them, he had only entered the English psyche a few years before Freud took his own life in 1939. There
Turtles All the Way Down When I was in middle school, me and my friends would read John Green novels as if they were young adult diaries. We’d devour them, living vicariously through Margo Roth Spiegelman and Alaska Young’s self-constructed mysteries or pining after the love story of Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters so
Watchmen: Chapter I Believe it or not, there was a time when people said that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen” could never be adapted into a movie. It was, after all, the superhero comic book equivalent of “Citizen Kane,” an audacious blend of storytelling, social commentary and visual panache that exploited the unique artistic
Winter Spring Summer or Fall Winter Spring Summer or Fall, directed by Tiffany Paulsen, is a romantic drama that rarely comes without good intentions. Such films tend to be easy to consume disposable but not toxic. They’re designed either to feel familiar or to show us a fantastical version of what love and lust “could”
Asphalt City You might recall a scene in “Repo Man” where Emilio Estevez, engaged in a high-speed automobile repossession, says, “This is intense,” and Harry Dean Stanton replies, laconically, “Repo man’s always intense.” Being an urban paramedic can also have that effect; you needn’t even have seen the movies to know that. Directed by Jean-Stephane
Containment (Infected) When Mark (wow, that’s cutting it a little too close!) is a deadbeat parent and unsuccessful artist, and he has a rough morning, waking up in his dirty council flat in London , he anticipates the worst case scenario of losing a custody dispute over the child. Although this sounds awful, Mark’s rotten
