The best American TV drama of the past few years may very well be Battlestar Galactica. Not what most people might expect from a science fiction show, which is why the first two seasons were not talked about much in the mainstream media. But as more people starting giving the show a chance, they realized [...]
May 6, 2009
Categories: TV shows . Tags: allegory, civil rights, human nature, religion, robots, science fiction, the future, the modern world, thriller, war . Author: setipensteven . Comments: Leave a Comment
Ok I’m late putting this up, but this movie Monsieur Ibrahim is about a young Jewish boy growing up without a mother and with a depressed father. This boy, Moise (Momo), is eventually befriended by an elderly Muslim man who runs a grocery store across the street from his apartment. Their relationship develops as Ibrahim [...]
May 9, 2008
Categories: movies . Tags: childhood, ethnic conflict, foreign, Paris, religion . Author: setipensteven . Comments: Leave a Comment
One of the all-time great thrillers and crime films, Se7en (or “Seven”) is the film that elevated David Fincher to great director status. It also gave its stars, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, newfound popularity. In the film, Pitt plays a new detective in a big American city where Freeman has been working [...]
November 6, 2007
Categories: movies . Tags: crime, metaphor, mystery, religion, the classics, thriller, twist ending, violence . Author: setipensteven . Comments: 7 Comments