This last weekend I happened upon three "documentaries." I put the word in quotation marks because out of the three, only one looked and performed like what I'd consider a traditional documentary. Here's what I saw:
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Actually, you can watch this documentary online. I'll even embed it here, so go nuts because it's great and relatively short (one hour).
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This last weekend I happened upon three "documentaries." I put the word in quotation marks because out of the three, only one looked and performed like what I'd consider a traditional documentary. Here's what I saw:
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Actually, you can watch this documentary online. I'll even embed it here, so go nuts because it's great and relatively short (one hour).
PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES from EELS on Vimeo.
If it's not working or if you'd prefer to know what the documentary Read more [...]
Let me be Blunt: I watched three (3) Emily Blunt movies in the last two days. This was originally coincidental, but then deliberate (once I thought of the title for a blog post, I sort of created a self-fulfilling prophecy).
The last time we came back to Costa Rica I brought with us some old copies of "Entertainment Weekly" that my family was done with, and some of the movies that came up in lots of reviews and interesting comments happened to involve Emily Blunt. I then decided to watch three
... and it turns out it's got nothing do to with pimps. Well, not normally, at least.
Let's take a step back for a moment. I'm referring not to the Scarlet Pimpernel, but rather The Black Pimpernel, a Swedish/Chilean movie released a few years ago. It tells the story of the Swedish ambassador to Chile during the 1970s Pinochet revolution. He saved around 1,300 people from likely death, and is often compared to Oskar Schindler.
The movie was pretty good, although it does seem to take a bit of
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Today we're going to continue our look back at 2012--it certainly had a lot of good movies, didn't it? Tonight we'll have a review of a movie that made basically all of our editors' lists, and it will be the first post by our writer Mike2D2! The article was originally just a series of beeps, blips, and whistles, but fortunately our protocol droid was able to convert it into Standard English (a Bocce translation will follow soon). Enjoy!
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