Death Race

Originally published by Thinking Faith (27 September 2008)

“In 2012 the economy collapses…” reads the opening frame of Death Race. Therefore, given the current state of global finances we must take this film as a dramatic pre-construction, facts from the future, and so let me tell you all about the inevitable. Our markets will collapse, unemployment [...]

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Originally published by Thinking Faith (9 September 2008)

Recently novelist William Leith wrote a short piece explaining what drugs will do to a film. Movies on heroin become tragedies in which a romantic hero fails to achieve the euphoria in life that he feels when high and ends up a soulless wretch unable to see beauty [...]

Raising The Bar: Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, better known as Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell, plays a scruffy public defender who cares so much about his clients that he cries before the court case begins. Why wait for injustice? Who needs a dramatic climax for an excuse to sob? Not lawyer Jerry Kellerman. So here [...]