Are there 2.26 billion videotapes residing in households like toxic matter in Ontario? Should all VHS be recycled and eradicated like noxious goo? Or should a business plan to help the environment and a local community be modified? Read the Editor’s Blog on Project Get Reel.
The early years of Norway’s North Sea oil boom are (kind of) dramatized in the suspenser Pioneer / Pioner (2013) from Magnolia + some related underwater danger in The Dive / Dykket (1989).
Reviews of the Starz TV series The Chair (Anchor Bay) + the resulting films Hollidaysburg and Not Cool.
Reviews of Twilight Time’s latest Woody Allen releases on Blu – Love and Death (1975) and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).
The films of journalist Maziar Bahari are contrasted with Jon Stewart’s flawed Rosewater (Universal), including And Along Came a Spider (2003), Mohammad and the Matchmaker (2004), Targets: Reporters in Iraq (2005), An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 Coup (2010), and From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad: The Not So Secret Iran-Israel War (2012).
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