1915 DENOUNCES THE FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE WAR CRIMES In 1915, the Ottoman Empire, allied with Germany, decided to force millions of Armenians out of Turkey toward Armenia. They were not transported by bus or train; instead, many were forced to walk in what became a death march. Armenians want the world to acknowledge that the […]

Protests began even before The Longest Ride opened on April 10: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was in full force at the premiere in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Directed by George Tillman, Jr., and based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, the film features the rodeo, where untrained bulls object

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IS PSEUDO-PORN BUT HIGHLY POLITICAL All films are political because there is a power structure, and Hollywood traditionally belittles those in power. The film Fifty Shades of Grey, based on a recent novel by E. L. James, has never before been analyzed by political scientists, who will soon realize that the

BRITISH TROOPS COPE WITH THE IRA IN THE FILM ‘71 Seemingly based on a true story, the film ’71 depicts how fictional Gary Hook (played by Jack O’Donnell), a rookie British soldier, is dispatched to Belfast, receives orders to quell a riot through an amateurish operation, but is accidentally isolated from the rest of his

OUTCAST HAS BEEN CAST OUT BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT Directed by Nick Powell, the film Outcast has a lot of combat, beginning with the Crusades, when Gallain (played by Nicholas Cage) is disappointed that his military student Jacob (Hayden Christiansen) has apparently killed women and children (though Jacob did not do so). Both leave separately,

AMERICAN SNIPER REVEALS COMBAT IN IRAQ, TROUBLE AT HOME Clint Eastwood, in directing American Sniper, wants the world to know the patriotism, fog of war, difficulty of avoiding the killing of women and children, and how the war experience makes life difficult for a wife and family back home. Based on the autobiography of Chris

SELMA RECALLS THE HEROES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE Selma is intended to show the conflicts that Martin Luther King, Jr., (played by David Oyelowo) faced before the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. One conflict was with Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch), another with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Selma led by John Lewis

THE INTERVIEW ANGERS NORTH KOREA AND EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD FOOLISHNESS   Freaky behind the scenes, Dave Skylark (played by James Franco) has an interview program on television, produced by Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen). At the beginning of The Interview, rap star Eminem admits on the program that he is gay, and Rob Lowe takes off his wig

THE KILL TEAM EXPLAINS HOW SOME AMERICAN WAR CRIMES HAVE OCCURRED    Patriotic Americans volunteer to serve in the army of the United States only to learn that the they are sometimes at the mercy of their commanding officers more than in jeopardy because of an enemy. In The Kill Team, a documentary directed by cinematographer

INTERSTELLAR TRIES TO SOLVE HAWKING’S PROBLEM WITH ACTION The premise for interplanetary travel is that the earth is dying: The population is far below 1 billion, dust storms signal the inability to grow food, and the last crop is corn, which is endangered. Needing a new pilot, NASA evidently jiggles the earth polarity to summon