The Square is a beautifully crafted chronicle of Egypt’s ongoing revolution that, from beginning to end, manages to inspire, dispirit, and then fill your heart with a renewed sense of hope. I know others will be reviewing this film in the...
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“Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape itâ€, reads the Bertolt Brecht quote in the film’s opening sequence. A fitting statement. Brecht, a German poet, playwright and prominent Marxist among...
Since I haven’t published a Thursday Feel Good post for nearly a year now (and that should tell you something about our state of affairs) I thought this would be a good segue from our political turbulence. The brilliant people behind...
When it comes to documentaries, there’s a lot one has come to expect of Morgan Spurlock. The ability to take an idea that most of us have all thought of at one point or another and to document the process of that thought, is what has made his...
In the midst of all the chaos that is the American media punditry circle struggling to cover Egypt’s uprising, there’s Jon Stewart and the Daily Show doing a better job at putting things in their proper context. Or, at the very least...
After an opening montage of street artists painting up various towns and escaping from the hands of the law, the mysterious street artist known as Banksy appears on camera, cloaked in a dark hoodie. “The film is the story of what happened when...
It happened quickly. On a lazy Thursday afternoon, rx somewhere in Amman’s Tla Al Ali district, viagra sale Hamas leader Khalid Mishal saw nothing more than a blur of movement as he emerged from his car only to be faced with two unknown...