Giulia Rozzi
May 30, 2008 | 9:16 am EST
Summer means sun and brightness and fun - which is great. However it’s always a good idea to step out of that every once in awhile to think about things that are a bit darker. This weekend I would recommend making that step into a movie theater to see Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River, a film that deals with immigration and poverty - two issues everyone should think about more often. The film goes to the darker places in life and forces you to consider choices you might never have to deal with otherwise.
It also features a great performance from Melissa Leo, who up to this point has always made her mark with supporting roles.
The trailer is after the jump and be sure to takepart with the National Immigrant Justice Center.
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You have to see HBO’s “Recount.” It’s an eye-opening and entertaining look at all that Florida election recount drama. The acting is amazing (Laura Dern as Katherine Harris is spot-on and hilarious) and the story, well, for me this film was a shocking and disapointing lesson in US politics and judicial loop holes.
The online auction website Charity Buzz is hosting an auctioning off a chance to be a featured extra in a scene with Johnny Depp in his latest film ” Public Enemies, an action-thriller that tells the story of America’s criminal folk hero John Dillinger (Depp), who conducted a wave of bank robberies in the 1930s. The role will be non-speaking, and will be shot sometime in May in Chicago.Proceeds from the auction will go to the Robert F Kennedy Memorial, an organization providing innovative support to courageous human rights defenders around the world. Through long-term partnerships and cutting edge methods, the organization assists advocates who have won the RFK Human Rights Award to boldly confront injustice in support of human freedom.
If you’ve got a few thousand dollars to spend then 
and bid at https://auction01.charitybuzz.com/secure/viewItemDetail.do?auction_item_id=13567
Or you can also and get involved with RFK Memorial organization by visiting rfkmemorial.org
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King Corn is a movie about “Two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.” Directors Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis were college buddies who decided to leave the city, move to farm in Iowa and grow corn, in order to find out about the crop that is used in everything we eat, from hamburgers, to soda, to donuts. 9 months (and 31,000 seeds, a 10,000-pound harvest of corn) later, the crop yield was so huge it would be able to yield 57,348 cans of soda, 3,894 corn-fed hamburgers, 2,301 pounds of bacon or 6,726 boxes of frosted corn flake. The two filmmakers put the corn into Cheney and Ellis used the corn to feed livestock, and turned the rest into ethanol and sweeteners, such as corn syrup. Curious about how much corn they were ingesting, Cheney and Ellis got their hair “corn tested” and discovered the food made up 58% and 53% of their diets.
Get ready to trip out with your favorite imaginary, little topless blue men…The Smurfs are releasing a new movie!In addition to celebrating their 50th anniversary with a film, The Smurfs will also have a series of new comic adventures, statuttes, an exhibition at Brussel’ cartoon museum, a set of commemorative stamps and more chicks!That’s right, Smurfette will no longer be the towns only T n’ A. Read the rest of this entry »
“There have been dramatic changes in socio-cultural values in the past 20 to 25 years,” Hendrik Coysman, head of Smurf rights holder IMPS told a news conference on Monday. “One of these is girl empowerment.”“So, there will be a greater female presence in the Smurf village and this will, of course, be a basis for new stories and this will probably turn upside down certain traditional situations within the village.”Yeah girl power! I wonder the new gals will be Ginger Smurfette, Scary Smurfette, Baby Smurfette, Posh Smurfette, and Sporty Smurfette?However I am a bit concerned.
