It’s a tale of ravage, rape, ruin, and nondisclosure – the latter only if you develop some leverage over the money and power behind what can be the fracking scourge. Sound like a soap opera? Don’t we wish! But a soap opera can be turned off and committed to…
... in a nutshell, Brazil, and virtually every other country in Latin America, is a thriving, living, breathing community steeped in natural and social beauty, with an irrepressible spirit and admirable strength of will and determination to be the masters of their own destiny.
For LGBT people in their fifties and up, the future is shorter, and the odds for a marked improvement in their lives accordingly smaller.
Pi expresses the universal desire to know the ineffable, and then to fail, go through a mental breakdown, and yet still try again.
By: Dan Mitchells Johnny Suede is that odd combination of surrealism and melodrama to the point that it was humorous—though I'm not quite sure whether the humor was always intentional. Made back in 1991, the same year Brad Pitt (the main actor) dazzled audiences with his performance in Thelma…
By: Daniel Minox Tank Girl is the 1995 film adaptation of the British comic book of the same name. It's a science fiction story set in 2033 in a future desecrated by a comet that destroyed the surface of the Earth and made it look like any generic mid-Western…
By: Daniel Minox The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie has it all: surrealism, French humor, social commentary, non sequiturs, 1970s film sex, and a bizarre logic of the modern bourgeoisie. Filmed in 1972, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie was directed by Luis Bunuel, the same man who worked…
"The song was written by guitarist Dave Sabo after he read a newspaper article about an 18 year old named Ricky who was sentenced to life imprisonment for accidentally shooting his friend. "18 and Life" is the second single from Skid Row's 1989 eponymous debut album. The song was…
By: Gregory Friedericks I don't know how to classify The Apple. It's somewhere in between a musical and a modern-day remake of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, all set to a disco beat. With an interesting array of costumes that spanned from colorful spandex, feathered boas, glittering…
By: Dan Minchkin Un Chien Andalou (which translates An Andalusian Dog) was directed Luis Bunuel and written by both Bunuel and Salvador Dali. If you're unfamiliar with Bunuel's work, then you should at least be familiar with Dali's iconic surrealist work, which comes across in the 1929 silent surrealistic…