Remembering the shocking images of Abu Ghraib is not an easy thing to do. While it caught most of the world off guard, it came as something fairly expected of a US-invader. But for one of the few times in history, images and videos played such an essential role in documenting a horrific crime. To […]

From one of the greatest films ever made…

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Seven Pounds is probably one of Will Smith’s more interesting dramatic roles, along the lines of “The Pursuit of Happyness” and 1993’s “Six Degrees Of Separation”. The story feels almost cut and presented in pieces so that you don’t know exactly what Will Smith’s character, Ben Thomas, is up to. All you can really tell […]

Without a doubt, Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and subsequent resignation as President, is one of the most interesting moments in US, if not world history. Frost/Nixon is a film, based on a play, that chronicles the famous post-resignation interview of Nixon by British interviewer David Frost. The former is portrayed (dead on) by Frank Langella […]

Let me be honest right off the bat. I have never been a Jean-Claude Van Damme fan nor a fan of the pseudo-action flicks genre in general. Nevertheless, the “Muscles From Brussels” is worshiped in Jordan and that’s the only way I would ever discover that Van Damme has actually continued to make movies after […]

“The key to a healthy society, is a thriving community of storytellers…storytelling is a commodity, it’s a staple, there is no life without stories.” - Franco Sacchi, Italian filmmaker.
Check out his TED Talk, it really is inspiring. Who knew that Nigeria had the third largest film industry in the world; Nollywood? And it seems […]

Designed solely for movie buffs who also have very short attention spans, the Jordan Short Film Festival is taking place all this week at Muhtaraf Al-Remaal in Jabal Al-Weibda. If you don’t know where that is, don’t fret. The directions are rather easy if you actually follow them. And speaking of locations, what I find […]

First off, homosexuality is not a topic that I think I’ve ever discussed on this blog and mostly because it is a topic that people seem to be so opinionated about (not to mention preoccupied with) to the extent that every conversation about it seems destined to descend in to a spiral of insults and […]