The movie’s title comes from the name given to a group of combat photojournalists whose work witnessed the final years of struggle which resulted in the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. The four guys gained the nickname because of the fearless way they got so close to their subjects in the face of real … Continue reading
Writer/director Alexandre Moore takes on the impossible task of making a narrative that asserts to tell a rather tragic true story of some senseless needless violence without giving an emotional element to the perpetrators of the crime. The facts of the ‘Beltway Shootings’ by the ‘DC Snipers’ where John Muhammed and Lee Malvo went on … Continue reading
Sandra a rather harried middle-aged manager of a ‘Chickwich’ fast food restaurant in (god-forsaken) Ohio is rallying her troop of very young workers before the busy Friday night shift. She’s short-handed and also low on supplies after someone had left the Freezer door ajar overnight. It’s going to be a tough night. An hour later … Continue reading
This is the story of how Francois Sarkozy actually landed the job of the President of France, and it isn’t always a pretty tale. There is a bold announcement at the beginning of this feature film that states that this is BASED on events that happened as opposed to it being a factual account, and … Continue reading
This should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’. Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this … Continue reading