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THE GREY – Review By MV Moorhead

January 27, 2012 · 0 comments

LEADER OF THE PACK
The Grey
Review by M.V. Moorhead/Less Hat, Moorhead

A few environmental activists have called for a boycott of The Grey, because it depicts wolves stalking and killing humans. Such attacks, though certainly not unknown in human history, are very rare, and given the much higher degree to which wolf populations have suffered at the hands of humans, it may seem gratuitous to use them as movie menaces. …read more

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LULA, THE SON OF BRAZIL – Review By Ed Rampell

January 27, 2012 · 0 comments

BLAME IT ON BRIO
Lula, The Son Of Brazil
Review by Ed Rampell

In the past few years a slew of biopics about recent European rightwing leaders have been released, including The Conquest (about Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise to France’s presidency), The Iron Lady (with Meryl Streep as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher), The Queen (about Queen Elizabeth and Britain’s sellout and war monger, Prime Minister Tony Blair), Il Divo (about Italy’s Christian Democrat senator for life and Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti), as well as Il Caimano, which lampoons Italy’s buffoonish Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Now there’s a feature to cheer for about one of the good guys, as Fabio Barreto’s Lula, Son of Brazil joins Clint Eastwood’s ode to Nelson Mandela, Invictus, as a biopic about a left-leaning leader. …read more

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