Two villagers from Glod sued “Borat”’s producers for $30 million

Two fellows from the now-famous Glod, the Romanian village where some of the scenes of the controversial comedy “Borat” had been filmed, sued in court on the 20th of November the producers of the movie. They asked for $30 million as moral damages.
The villagers from Glod, Dambovita, played in Cohen’s movie the roles of some [...]

Borat and Romania – the pure reality of the gypsy villages

In Romania there are villages that are completely inhabited by gypsies. Some of these villages are inhabited by rich gypsies, who have many Mercedes cars in their backyard, and other are inhabited by the poor ones, who are driving those strange carts (the car frame lugged by horses), as you could see in “Borat”.
The Glod [...]

Overrated movies

To be clear, an overrated movie it’s not a bad movie
Here’s my list so far (it’s not a top, it’s a list so the order is quite random):
Titanic
Crash
Troy
American Beauty
Gladiator
The Godfather I and II (it’s good, but it’s overrated, folks!)
Brokeback Mountain
Scarface (Goodfellas is much better…)
Cidade De Deus (overrrrrrrated)
Apocalypse Now
The Passion of the Christ (or [...]

The Departed, best movie of the year, so far

I’ve watched “The Departed” with a certain delay. Usually, when you’re going to watch a movie from which you’re expecting much, you’re kind of unsatisfied at the end, no matter how good it has been in fact. So I went to watch “The Departed” without thinking of it being considered the best latest Scorsese’s movie, [...]

No more Borat, or we’ll get suicided!

Here’s an email I just received from Beibitzhan Ershat (Beibitzhan.Ershat@yahoo.kz):
We the Kazakhstani people gathered tonight in the city hall tent and looked over digg.com and see only about Borat. We cannot write anything about any other picture movies because Borat is there. We are Borat’s friends but we want to share with us our great [...]

Takashi Miike - Audition (Odishon) short movie review

I’ve come across the Japanese producer Takashi Miike for the second time and I could say that he gained me as a supporter of his style of making movies. The short reel “The Box” has given me the first opportunity of hearing of Miike. I could dispute a certain accent of pure and un-hidden violence [...]

“300″ movie - might be a hit

I like the “Lord of the Rings” sort of movies, which involve fights, battles and great wars. As this kind of movies has also become in fashion (see “Troia” or “Kingdom of Heaven”), the Hollywood guys thought about making another movie from this category, “300″. With an estimated budget of $60 million, “300″ will be [...]

Microsoft is pressing China on bloggers behalf

Microsoft official staff have stated today for BBC that Microsoft is reconsedering its presence on the Chinese market, and that a possible regresion of the company’s activities in China could emerge. The announce has been made by Fred Tipson, senior policy counsel for Microsoft, as a consequence of some pressions made by the Chinese authorities [...]