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...]
Golden Raspberry Awards 2014
The Golden Raspberry Awards - or Razzies - were founded in 1981 by the American publicist, John J.B. Wilson, as a joke on the night of the Academy Awards. Friends were invited to give random film awards and tales of the "bad nominations" were picked up by the Los Angeles Daily News with the headline: "Take These Envelopes, Please". Wilson formalized the events, holding ballots, and issuing trophies - shaped like a golden raspberry - and they are now announced on the eve of the Oscars, with a lot … [Read more...]
BAFTA 2014: Nominees, a List
This year BAFTA Nominees' list, comes from LA Times. Usually, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Ceremony, takes place before the Oscars, this year, it will be on Sunday, February 16'th. They have four categories outstanding the fact that this is a British thing, not American, otherwise it would have been a poor copycat of the Oscars. So, not much imagination here, as well. I have watched a few of the movies en vogue, and I sadly confess that I'm not impressed at all. But I … [Read more...]