Our Brand is Crisis, a movie released in 2015, is about politics and the dirty game of winning a Presidential election. It's happening in Bolivia, the former Spanish territory exploited for silver and tin. The name came from "El Libertador", the Venezuelan hero Simon Bolivar. He had a crucial role in the establishment of several South American states' independence from Spanish rule. One of them is Bolivia. [source of all pics: imdb.com] Plot Jane is a political strategist, she … [Read more...]
Team America: World Police
Team America: World Police is a metaphor expressed as a parody. It shows a high sense of humor and the most rare of all senses, the sense of ridicule. There aren't many people gifted with that. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, two of the best comic creators alive, are known by you from South Park. There's another quirk with South Park. You like it or you hate it. I think that in between can sneak the guys who don't get it (like the ones who don't get Twitter, an army, actually). This is humor, … [Read more...]
Who Deserves to Win?
With this essay post I have separated a new sub category on this blog, the Awards, which will be as you already guess, the Motion Pictures specialized talk. Everything I know related to Oscars, Globes, Emmy, SAG, and such, will be part from this new sub category. Tonight, the Oscars ceremony will take place and I feel compelled to say a few words about it. I don't feel there were many mistakes this year. Ben Affleck and Quentin Tarantino think they were robbed by Best Director nominations, … [Read more...]
Argo
I like Argo a lot. It took awards after awards, I was sure they have a reason, and after I saw the movie, I understood why. The movie is flawless and it is a good movie. It is "based on a true story", it wasn't the true story. I read that after presenting the movie at the Toronto Film Festival, the Canadian critics were upset for glorifying the CIA instead the Canadian Ambassador who helped so much. Discussions, nothing more. The Canadians had the credits for twenty years. Khomeini is dead, … [Read more...]
SAG Awards Winners
All the following pics are from The Guardian! The comments are mine, now when I've seen a lot of the nominated movies. I haven't seen Argo, yet, but I'll review it separately, if it will be that astonishing. Anyway, it seems that the cast of Argo was awarded. The critics say it's a strong sign for Oscars, which might be true for some of the awards, precisely four, The Best Actors and The Best Supporting Actors, both genders, since they are voting again, plus "actress" Beyonce, the Presidential … [Read more...]
10 Facts about George Clooney After He Was Arrested
George Clooney Arrested was a title that crossed the internet recently. This is making me very disappointed in this guy; his general activity is one of the reasons I haven't commented this year's Oscars yet. Maybe I will do it later. Now, I have always known that he is an "activist", but not the rest. I focused on his talent, liked his acting very much, and wasn't really interested in finding more about his personal life. Maybe I should have. I haven't known that he's sort of a role model for … [Read more...]