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Best of ’09/Pre-Academy Awards Analysis
This will be a lengthy article. Since the Oscars air on Sunday night, it’s about time I get my list of the year’s best films up on here, as well as look over many of the current nominees contending this weekend. I’ll start with my favorite films of 2009. 1. District 9 (Director: Neill Blomkamp) […]
Tower Heist
An alleged comedy, Tower Heist is generic from its title on down. Look at the talent on display and tell me Director Brett Ratner has any excuse for this. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Tea Leoni, Michael Pena, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sidibe. What happened? Ben Stiller plays Josh, the GM of the […]
Black. White.
Unless and until the races are willing to sacrifice everything that makes them who they are – not entirely desirable – racial consciousness and, therefore, “racism” will probably never just disappear. That’s no reason cross-racial friendships can’t occur (as they often do). But they’re not going to occur through racial reconciliation conferences or lots of kumbaya singing, and certainly not through the races taking each other out in disguise and then yelling at each other when the other race doesn’t see things the same way. They will occur, if at all, the same way all friendships occur: through people simply being themselves and finding things they have in common. Programs like Black White, even when they have the best of intentions, need to back off and let this happen. It can’t be forced.
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