Posts Tagged ‘Film’
Something Scottish For Today
You might not realise that Donald Trump is half Scottish. But it is the only reason why he insists on building the golf resort in Scotland, surrounding his mansion (which is called ‘The Donald’ by his ex wife Ivanka) in Balmedie, north of Aberdeen. Trump was reportedly considered more than 200 sites in Europe before [...]
Stick To Your Script
Maybe Sharon Stone thinks she could be another Susan Sarandon. Maybe she thinks she is intelligent enough to write her own script. Maybe she just doesn’t realize how powerful China and its market is. clipped from film.guardian.co.uk Sharon Stone is facing a ban on the showing of her films in China after suggesting the recent [...]
Blast From the Past
Social networking websites certainly are on the top of the game, everybody is hooked up and cannot live without it. There has been discussion in many industries about how they could tap into this new trend and get benefits out of it. It is so powerful that HSBC had to cancel their plans to scrap [...]
On Fitna, Bloggers vs. Hackers, and Computer Illiterate MPs
Fitna is a short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, which explores Qur’anic motivation for terrorism and Islam in the Netherlands (explanatory stolen from Wikipedia). On April 7, Indonesia has blocked access to YouTube and a couple of other websites such as MySpace and Multiply. The Minister of Information and Communications Muhammad Nuh has passed [...]
Britz
I watched a program in Channel 4 the other day called “Britz” and it just… tickled me. The program, fictional of course, showed brother and sister, born in UK, Pakistan origin, Moslem (who don’t drink, don’t eat pork, but still sleep around, ironically), who went to totally opposite directions. The brother joined MI5 (perhaps like [...]
King Kong: Why I Hate It
I might be the only one in the world who doesn’t like King Kong. My friends’ opinions are split into two: some of them say it’s really cool and worth watching; some of them are less enthusiastic and think it’s just ok. But none of them say they hate it. I do. Not because it’s [...]

















