I would classify things in this category that were related to arts, literature, cinema, performance. Things that make us and the world better.
On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle — but he never figured on an old-school “analog” fly in the “digital” ointment: John McClane. No mask. No cape. No problem.
Read moreMr. Smith, the angriest, most hardboiled man in the world, finds himself entrusted to protect the most innocent thing of all–a newborn child. When Smith delivers the baby in the middle of a gunfight, he soon discovers that the infant is the target of a shadowy force that has sent a team of mysterious and endless assailants, led by Hertz, to erase all traces of the baby. Amid a hail of bullets and facing every conceivable permutation of gunfight, Smith teams up with a prostitute named DQ to solve the mystery as to why the baby’s life is being threatened before this makeshift family all ends up on the wrong side of a bullet. Everyone wants the baby dead. The big question is why?
Read moreThis is a wrap up of the minor and unusual stories from the news for the week ending Friday, January 18, 2008. Not surprisingly we find some wingnuttery going on in the Virginia State Legislature. A Lakeland police officer “accidentally” unleashes his police dog on a 14 year old girl, and a 13 year old girl robs a Burger King at knifepoint for a cheeseburger.
Read moreA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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