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I'm late on this; It looks like a project that's worth your attention and contributions, so without me taking up more time explaining it, since, as of this posting, the campaign has 34 hours left to reach its goal, I'll just let the filmmakers speak for themselves, via the email I received, as well as the Kickstarter campaign video that follows; The project's Kickstarter campaign goal is $30,000, and, as of this posting, has reached $25,944, with 34 hours left to go; so it needs to raise an additional $4,056 in about 1 1/2 days. Not a lot of time, but also not entirely impossible, especially if you all pass this around, and it spreads so that...
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As readers will note, what is holding back Eritrea from realizing its richness is PIA's deliberate policy of impoverishment, designed to maintain tight grip on power, experiment with outdated political ideologies, and other unknown reasons.
The 2nd Eritrean Investment Conference, scheduled for December 17 & 18, 2012, is yet another drama designed to feed its dwindling supporters talking points at a time when every news coming out of the country is about a country hitting rock bottom by every measuring yard stick. The floodgates of exodus have opened so wide that Eritreans at all levels and including those issued exit visa are buying one-way tickets. Only the naïve would believe that investment would flood into Eritrea at a time when the Eritrean people are ...
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Before you get all worked up about the idea, don't worry, it's not something that's actually going to happen; but rather something that almost DID happen, many moons ago, before Quentin Tarantino made Pulp Fiction. In an interview with MTV Movies while on the ongoing press circuit for Django Unchained (you've heard about it, I'm sure), posted earlier today, QT talke about his desire (or lack there of) to jump on the superhero movie bandwagon and direct one of his own; and during the conversation, he revealed the following: "After 'Reservoir Dogs,' I had considered doing a 'Luke Cage, Hero for Hire' movie. [Producer] Ed Pressman owned the...
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Phase 4 Films has acquired US and Canadian rights to Jorge Hinojosa's Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp which made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this fall. Directed and executive produced by Jorge Hinojosa, his first filmmaking credit according to imdb, Iceberg Slim features interviews with the notorious pimp-turned-author himself, as well as the likes of Chris Rock, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, Quincy Jones and others. Here's the full synopsis: 'Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp', examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim (1918-1992) and how he reinvented...
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Africa needs to move forward and address the implications of global warming.
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Steve Harris is reuniting with his Awake producer Howard Gordon to co-star in TNT's drama pilot Legends, which is based on the novel by Robert Littell, and centers on an undercover CIA operative (played by Sean Bean) who is also a chameleon of sorts, who is able to suitably transform himself into a different person for each job. Harris will play a character named Yates, who's the director of the D.C.O. Task Force responsible for reinstating Martin. Anyone read the novel to shed some light on the character Harris will play, and his involvement in the story? Harris will next be seen in Regina King's feature film directorial debut - an adaptation...
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In a year in which both the Coptic Pope and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria have died, it may be useful to repeat a story I know I've told before. I once had a friend, a devout Palestinian Christian, who back in the day would encounter, in various American Christian communities in which he moved, well-meaning ladies and gentlemen who, on learning he was a Christian Arab, would naively ask, "which missionary group converted your people?" He would respond (knowing his sense of timing, I presume after waiting a couple of beats): "Perhaps you've heard of them: Jesus Christ and the Twelve Apostles."
Over the next week or so most US news organizations will have at least one clip from a city in the West Bank known as Bethlehem. They will show the Church of the Nativity, interview a few ...
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This is the latest in a series of entries looking at what we can expect in 2013. Each weekday, a guest analyst will look at the key challenges facing a selected country - and what next year might hold in store. By Mark N. Katz, Special to CNN Mark Katz is a professor of government and politics [...]
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The US is the most heavily armed nation in the world, possessing about 270 million guns. As CNN notes, "Yemen, a tribal nation with no history of strong central government or the rule of law, comes in a distant second." The US is also far and above the most violent developed country in the world. [...]
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Egypt's Prosecutor General Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah (left) submitted his resignation on Monday "under pressure from protesters", a judicial source said, just weeks after President Mohammed Morsi swore him in after sacking his predecessor.
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We look at the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, where bread is becoming scarce. Next, Israel sees a controversial tattoo trend, replicating numbers from the Nazi camps. Finally, whirling dervishes of Damascus perform in Paris.
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Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria's courageous governor of the central bank, has once again called attention to the high cost of government...
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Tonight, the CW's long running drama on the secret lives of New York's Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl, will air its final episode. Over its six seasons on the air, the cult favorite, which New York Magazine fondly dubbed the "Greatest Show of Our Time" has never shied away from controversy. Last season, ruthless billionaire Bart Bass came back from the dead. This season, we learned that he went underground to avoid FBI prosecution for violating United States government sanctions prohibiting oil trade with the Sudan. Although his son Chuck has spent millions of dollars and countless hours trying to find the evidence to link Bart to his illegal oil dealings, he was unsuccessful. In the end, he needed his on-again-off-again girlfriend Blair to help him scheme one of her infamous "takedowns" ...
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