– by BEV QUESTAD – Eric is the 50-ish universal man who finds himself off-track. Using sports analogy, the grace of a woman and an inner desire to finally, at long last, find his true self, Eric self-talks himself through his challenges. Not the film to impress your date However, if you...
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Under Review: ‘Chameleon’ (aka ‘Kaméleon’)
– by BEV QUESTAD – “We all had the same dream. Not women. Not fame. But cash … because that meant that you were someone.” This is another Hideous Man Show – but this bad dude meets the seemingly angelic, beautiful, seductive, duplicitous Hideous Woman. ...
January 25th, 2010 - 12:42 pm § in Opinions
Christopher Hitchens on Tour
– by BEV QUESTAD – Christopher Hitchens used to be the sexiest man alive. His rhetoric on issues of justice and accountability has been heart-spinning. In 2001, he wrote “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” a landmark book on Kissinger’s complicity in sustaining the Vietnam War...
January 25th, 2010 - 11:21 am § in Reviews
Under Review: ‘The Trials of Henry Kissinger’
– by BEV QUESTAD – You will never look at politics the same way. You will never look at government-delivered reasons for being in a war the same way. Your world view will be unalterably changed after viewing this documentary. This is the kind of film that transforms thinking. In his book...
December 28th, 2009 - 12:18 pm § in Reviews
Under Review: ‘Rethink Afghanistan’
– by BEV QUESTAD – At the close of this small college screening, a frustrated man stood up and said, “Let’s all pitch in a buck to buy a copy for Barack Obama.” Fifty bucks later, the organizer had enough to send it special delivery. Why are we there? What do we have to gain? Who ...
December 7th, 2009 - 1:13 pm § in Reviews
Under Review: ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’
– by BEV QUESTAD – Throughout the world and throughout time, women have been victimized by renegade soldiers driven by powerlessness and dehumanization. For possibly the first time in the history of the African continent, if not the world, a group of women of different faiths and ...
December 6th, 2009 - 9:49 pm § in Reviews
Under Review: ‘Brief Encounters With Hideous Men’
– by BEV QUESTAD – Say it ain’t so Tiger! Dave Letterman, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton, and even our ancient hero Odysseus … infidelity and adultery are chronic age-old temptations of the susceptible ego. Sara Quinn, played by Julianne Nicholson, is a graduate ...
