Linda Stirling Unmasked: The Black Whip




AGORA
: Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history. A kind of purge that was apparently big business back then.


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3/31/09

Green Porno: You Won't Want Isabella To Get A Room


LISTEN TO ISABELLA ROSSELLINI GREEN PORNO INTERVIEW HERE

There's an eco-friendly peep show up on the Internet, Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno. From Isabella's six foot long insect penis to her flesh colored body tights boasting graphic anatomically correct female erogenous zones, this amazing series of short films promises never a dull moment sexy shock and awe.

The radiant colors and beyond imagination fantasy costumes and sets are indescribable. In our conversation with Isabella, we wanted to know if her primary impulse in creating Green Porno was to be sexy. And if not, what then?

Rossellini and Dragonflies Make A Porno. Not exactly bestiality, but don't expect Isabella to get a room. CONTINUE READING HERE...

3/29/09

Live And Become: On DVD


Radu Mihaileanu, Director

Can love conquer fear and hate?

Live and Become is a love story and a history lesson with up to date scenes from Israel, where I have never been. It is based on the story of the people who were airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses.

This film is a tour de force that opens the viewers eyes to what it is like to be a nine year old orphan, to be different in color and experience from those we live with, and to feel the weight and pressure of unconditional love in spite of the gulf that defines and divides us.

This is a film for the romantic, for the intellectual, for those who might not know about the Ethiopian migration into Israel where the politicians wanted the immigrants to boost their number of citizens but the Israel people were afraid of the color of their skin, the spread of potential desease from AIDs or worse and the possibility that these foreigners were in fact posing as Jewish people but were not Jewish and never had been.

Beautifully acted, the story unfolds slowly with particular attention to detail and the translation, the subtitles were way above average.

Enormous in scope.

Live and Become covers a multitude of issues that most of us would rather forget but can't.

On DVD

Linda Z
WBAI Women's Collective

Sugar Movie Review: More Bitter Than Sweet Baseball Capitalism


Sports in the US, much like Hollywood, presents itself as a celebration of star power and those who make it, while rarely pausing to examine the many more who are discarded, exploited, and very often ultimately destroyed human beings. Unless, that is, their stories render them passing curiosities as profitable, lurid gossip fodder for the tabloids. CONTINUE READING....

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO OUR AUDIO CONVERSATION WITH THE SUGAR DIRECTORS

3/28/09

HE SAID, SHE SAID...Edge Of Love


HE SAID....

Unfortunately, the flow of the story shifts to a Fatal Attraction-style thriller with very few surprising twists. It left me empty and wanting more from the exceptionally gifted actors. CONTINUE READING....

FILM RATING (C+)

Gerald Wright
Film Showcase
HDFest.com


SHE SAID....


More a Gary Springer sex brawl than a Blitzkrieg bohemian romp, with legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas mainly playing incorrigibly horny and urinating on house plants. And a court duel from nowhere, landing the entire free love menagerie nastily at each other's throats. Paging Nancy Grace. CONTINUE READING....

Prairie Miller

3/24/09

Older Than America: Georgina Lightning Interview


Older Than America: First Feature Film By A Native American Woman, Georgina Lightning



CLICK TO LISTEN TO INTERVIEW WITH GEORGINA LIGHTNING HERE


READ MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OLDER THAN AMERICA HERE


Native American filmmaker Georgina Lightning also stars in her fact based feature film Older Than America, as a young woman haunted by the ghosts of murdered Cree Nation Catholic boarding school children. And she describes how her own father's tragic suicide, like many others suffering such centuries of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at these government organized boarding schools, inspired her film.