For the first 39 years of my life I lived on Long Island and there are some events that stand out clearly in my memory. One of them is the crash of TWA Flight 800, which went down off the south shore of Suffolk County in 1996. One detail about it, in particular, that I […]
The Last Ever Made Movie is more of a parody film that celebrates fan films and less about anything else. I think the story here takes inspiration from different sources, including Star Trek. The influence becomes very obvious when you think about the fact that Nathan Blackwell who wrote and directed this also created Voyage
Joe is the man and it is an innovative YouTube web television series that currently has 17 episodes or “stages,” with 11 episodes animated by Studio Joho and six by Octopie. Joe Brumm created the Dan The Man series, while Dan Brumm was responsible for the music and sound effects. From 2010 to 2013, the
To say the least, this Zimbabwean debut is an extremely difficult book to talk about. It’s much more than clever or ambitious though it is both of those things, too. It is certainly not perfect, but it’s also big and strange enough that its faults just seem like so many tiny blips against the reader’s
Ever since 1895 on a Sunday, when Louis Lumière filmed workers pouring out of the gates of his factory in Lyon Monplaisir, the history of cinema has been inseparable from questions of work, leisure and workplace surveillance. Sometimes in the next century those image making tools made it into the hands of workers or sympathisers
Story Ameena tells the story of an actress who seeks retribution on her three rapists. She draws similarities between them and one of her stage characters, who was trafficked as a victim. Review Crimes against women combined with revenge drama can make for a thrilling watch. Portraying Meena’s (Rekha Rana) story in juxtaposition with her
Two native Wisconsin bikers took a “normal” long ride and turned it into the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Over 2400 miles later, Chris Schmidt and Chris Hiebert found themselves across the US from the Canadian border to the Mexico border. Schmidt said someone showed him the route on a phone, and that was it.
Veerapandi resides in Madurai with his two daughters Devi and Priya. However, his life takes a turn for the worse when Priya is murdered by two unidentified men. Veerapandi becomes devastated by grief and filled with revenge but instead of turning to the law enforcement agencies he decides to take it upon himself. Akkaran is
In Stephen Edward Roach’s indie true story cum social drama COOKSTER THE DARKEST DAYS based on the tough and true life exploits of Jason Cook life signs are very difficult to read for a dyslexic youth. Jason, also known as ‘Cookster’ (Samuel Staite), is a young person who is failing in school because of his
“Zlatan Ibrahimovic cannot be anyone.” This legend of Swedish football hangs over the heads of Gottsunda’s inhabitants, an immigrant ghetto in Uppsala city which has become a drug-packed no go area for gangland. He is mentioned several times throughout G–21 Scenes from Gottsunda and represents the one thing that they all have in common: he
