It took roughly seven years for Prashant Bhargava, a Chicago-born writer and director with Indian ancestry, to research, write, and film Patang (The Kite), a story that centers around an annual kite festival in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. And after all those years and all that work, he produced what amounts to the film…
Terri It takes courage to be yourself when others want you to change, and it take courage to change when you realize that you’re no longer the same person you used to be. Terri is a story about an obese teen who also isn’t easily accepted. However, since Terri (Jacob Wysocki) wears nothing but pajamas…
I don’t have many heroes or people I look up to, and that’s probably not a good thing. But I can think of two: Bruce Springsteen and Roger Ebert. This one’s about Ebert. Some of you might be old enough to remember him and Gene Siskel doing the old “At the Movies” shows on a…
(click on picture for movie trailer) The Motion Picture Association of America has caused controversy by giving the movie Bully an R rating. Protests and petitions have begun because the rating does not allow anyone under the age of 17 to see the movie without parental accompaniement. Many teens and “tweens” are upset about this,…
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