First, credit where it’s due.  Hats off to the Disney marketing team.  For the past few months they have successfully installed a keen sense of anticipation for their new animated adventure Frozen with articles, posters and teaser trailers but without ever telling us a thing about it.  What a surprise, then, to find that […]

  There’s a report that came out of Germany recently publishing the total amount of bullets fired by police in 2011.  The number was eighty-five, forty-nine of which were warning shots.  That’s down from the previous year where ninety-six shots were fired.  But that’s everything.  And Germany’s a big, gun-toting country. In the opening moments […]

  Based on true events, Philomena covers much of the same ground paved in the earlier 2003 film The Magdalene Sisters, the story of the Magdalene convent in Ireland where young girls were essentially incarcerated for their ‘sins’ and put to work, long hours, working the laundry and unable to leave, slaves to the unrelenting […]