X-Men 3, directed by Brett Ratner, is premised on the development of an antidote for mutants by a pharmaceutical firm based on Alcatraz Island. The antidote is blood from Jimmy (played by Cameron Bright), a mutant who can reverse mutant conditions. Although some mutants take the antidote, Magneto (played by Ian McKellan) leads the opposition […]

  The story of Queen Esther is found in the book of Esther in the Old Testament, but a recent novel, Hadassah: One Night With the King (2004) by Tommy Tenney with Mark Andrew Olsen, dramatizes her role is saving the Jews from genocide, an event now celebrated as Purim. Based on the novel, the film One Night

THE VULGARITY OF BORAT INVITES LAWSUITS In 1831, twenty-five year old aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville toured American and wrote up his memorable impressions, thereby ushering in a genre of on-the-road literature about the United States that has often been brought to the screen, most recently in Transamerica (2005). Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make