Ramon Ramirez is a history teacher who knows nothing about the history of the country he was born in — only the country that has always been his home.
As an undocumented immigrant and a “Dreamer” who came to the United States with his parents when he was 3, Ramirez fears that he will be forced to quit his job as a middle school teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, and deported to Mexico — a country he has only visited once — now that the Trump administration has decided to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program in six months.
Nearly 800,000 young undocumented...
As an undocumented immigrant and a “Dreamer” who came to the United States with his parents when he was 3, Ramirez fears that he will be forced to quit his job as a middle school teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, and deported to Mexico — a country he has only visited once — now that the Trump administration has decided to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program in six months.
Nearly 800,000 young undocumented...
- 9/5/2017
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
The King Baggot Tribute will take place Wednesday September 28th at 7pm at Lee Auditorium inside the Missouri History Museum (Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri). The 1913 silent film Ivanhoe will be accompanied by The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra and there will be a 40-minute illustrated lecture on the life and career of King Baggot by We Are Movie Geeks’ Tom Stockman. A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here
Here’s a comprehensive look at the life and career of King Baggot
Article by Tom Stockman
They gathered to see the stars at St. Louis Union Station on Saturday March 25th 1910. President Taft had made a stop near the Twentieth Street entrance ten days earlier, but the crowd this day was much larger. Thousands, mostly excited women wearing ankle-length dresses and waving felt pennants lined up hoping for a glimpse, or perhaps...
Here’s a comprehensive look at the life and career of King Baggot
Article by Tom Stockman
They gathered to see the stars at St. Louis Union Station on Saturday March 25th 1910. President Taft had made a stop near the Twentieth Street entrance ten days earlier, but the crowd this day was much larger. Thousands, mostly excited women wearing ankle-length dresses and waving felt pennants lined up hoping for a glimpse, or perhaps...
- 9/28/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Done any daring to defy lately?
If you’re a fan of the television versions of superheroes, you know what I’m talking/typing about. The network that calls itself The CW has, for a while now, been advocating such daring and this is the very same the go-to corporate entity that has made itself the go-to bandwidth for costumed do-gooders. They already have, in Arrow and The Flash, a couple of established hits (provided your definition of “hit” is modest) and in Legends of Tomorrow a show that has at least enough watchers to warrant renewal for another season. And the biggie…Supergirl has, with much hype, migrated from the kind of old-folkish CBS to the youthier CW and we Maid of Might mavens are allowed a happy sigh.
But about that youthiness and that “daring to defy” business: Really? Can they possibly mean it? Since they don’t...
If you’re a fan of the television versions of superheroes, you know what I’m talking/typing about. The network that calls itself The CW has, for a while now, been advocating such daring and this is the very same the go-to corporate entity that has made itself the go-to bandwidth for costumed do-gooders. They already have, in Arrow and The Flash, a couple of established hits (provided your definition of “hit” is modest) and in Legends of Tomorrow a show that has at least enough watchers to warrant renewal for another season. And the biggie…Supergirl has, with much hype, migrated from the kind of old-folkish CBS to the youthier CW and we Maid of Might mavens are allowed a happy sigh.
But about that youthiness and that “daring to defy” business: Really? Can they possibly mean it? Since they don’t...
- 9/22/2016
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Like a great pop song, Once director John Carney’s comedy about schoolboys in 1980s Dublin who form a band, is over much too soon
Films about people at school forming bands are well known for being 60% more lovable than any other sort, and this is no exception. Writer-director John Carney has created a back-to-basics movie comparable to his hit musical romance Once, and it’s a treat: a story about a lonely 15-year-old at a brutal Christian Brothers school in 80s Dublin who forms a gloriously half-arsed new romantic band, though one with miraculously high levels of musicianship and homemade pop-video production values, inspired by the mascara’d magnificence of Duran Duran.
It’s a wish-fulfilment comedy about idealism, aspiration and getting off with girls, riffing on that age-old truth that being in a band might just give you the cachet that will make up for a lack of money and looks.
Films about people at school forming bands are well known for being 60% more lovable than any other sort, and this is no exception. Writer-director John Carney has created a back-to-basics movie comparable to his hit musical romance Once, and it’s a treat: a story about a lonely 15-year-old at a brutal Christian Brothers school in 80s Dublin who forms a gloriously half-arsed new romantic band, though one with miraculously high levels of musicianship and homemade pop-video production values, inspired by the mascara’d magnificence of Duran Duran.
It’s a wish-fulfilment comedy about idealism, aspiration and getting off with girls, riffing on that age-old truth that being in a band might just give you the cachet that will make up for a lack of money and looks.
- 5/19/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Once director John Carney returns to his native Dublin for Sing Street, a 1980s-set coming-of-age crowdpleaser with real depth, heart and wit to match its toe-tapping musical beats. Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), a 14-year-old kid who's forced to move from a private school to rowdy public one run by the Christian Brothers when his parents find themselves in financial difficulty. Immediately out of place, Conor is subjected to taunts and attacks by his classmates and teachers. Keen to escape his problems and impress the enigmatic model Raphina (Lucy Boynton) who frequently hangs out across the road, Conor decides to form a band, whose influences range from the Pet Shop Boys to Depeche Mode.
- 5/18/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 21: The waning charisma of superstars, a drought at the box office and dearth of new faces...it was another bad year for the Malayalam film industry.
Despite several releases, the three ageing Malayalam superstars - Mammootty, 60, Suresh Gopi, 54, and Mohanlal, 51, - seen as the saviours of the filmdom, failed to bail out the industry that was reeling under flops.
Looking back on their hugely successful three decades, 2011 has not been a pleasant year for the trio.
Mammootty had five releases - 'August 15', 'Doubles', 'The Train', 'Bombay March 12' and 'Venicile Vyapari'; Mohanlal had 'Christian Brothers',.
Despite several releases, the three ageing Malayalam superstars - Mammootty, 60, Suresh Gopi, 54, and Mohanlal, 51, - seen as the saviours of the filmdom, failed to bail out the industry that was reeling under flops.
Looking back on their hugely successful three decades, 2011 has not been a pleasant year for the trio.
Mammootty had five releases - 'August 15', 'Doubles', 'The Train', 'Bombay March 12' and 'Venicile Vyapari'; Mohanlal had 'Christian Brothers',.
- 12/21/2011
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
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