During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) whipped out several barely-censored display boards featuring images of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, having sex with various women. It’s been clear for some time that Republicans are obsessed with Hunter’s nudes, but the stunt was especially bizarre given the hearing was about a criminal case brought by the Justice Department related to Hunter Biden’s taxes.
“Before we begin, I would like to let the committee and everyone watching at home [know] that parental discretion is advised,...
“Before we begin, I would like to let the committee and everyone watching at home [know] that parental discretion is advised,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – Nominating Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” for an Independent Spirit Award is sort of redundant, since the film has, in a sense, been nominated many times before. The film will only seem original to audiences unfamiliar with “The Visitor,” “Real Women Have Curves,” and “Crash” (and no, I’m not referring to the one about James Spader’s fetish for car accidents).
Yet, for all its inherent predictability, “Amreeka” nearly manages to work in spite of itself. It tells the story of a single mother, Muna (Nisreen Faour), living with her teenage son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. They live under the surveillance of Israeli authorities while attempting to cross the border. When Muna finally receives her visa to the Us, it seems as if her ticket to freedom has finally arrived.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
Muna and Fadi land in a Chicago airport on the same day that Us troops invade Iraq.
Yet, for all its inherent predictability, “Amreeka” nearly manages to work in spite of itself. It tells the story of a single mother, Muna (Nisreen Faour), living with her teenage son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. They live under the surveillance of Israeli authorities while attempting to cross the border. When Muna finally receives her visa to the Us, it seems as if her ticket to freedom has finally arrived.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
Muna and Fadi land in a Chicago airport on the same day that Us troops invade Iraq.
- 1/20/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The difficulties faced when the mideast meets the midwest soon after the 9/11 attacks provides the drama in director/writer Cherien Dabis’ new film Amreeka. From Palestine to White Castle, Amreeka is a classic American immigrant story that follows the adventures of a heavy-set 40ish woman from her war-torn homeland to suburban Illinois. It’s a story that’s been told countless times and when Amreeka sticks to the fish-out-of-water elements, it’s a warm and entertaining study of struggle and displacement. Where the film falters is in its narrow-minded and one-dimensional view of mistrusting Americans as racists and hatemongers.
Divorced and discouraged, Palestinian bank employee Muna (Nisreen Faour) scores a green card (it’s not made clear exactly how) and flees the occupied West Bank with her teenaged son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), to move in with her sister Raghda (Hiam Abbass) and her family somewhere 150 miles from Chicago. Unfortunately, calamity strikes immediately,...
Divorced and discouraged, Palestinian bank employee Muna (Nisreen Faour) scores a green card (it’s not made clear exactly how) and flees the occupied West Bank with her teenaged son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), to move in with her sister Raghda (Hiam Abbass) and her family somewhere 150 miles from Chicago. Unfortunately, calamity strikes immediately,...
- 11/15/2009
- by Tom
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
- If you are wondering what are the kinds of films that come out of this particular section - look no further then in current headline grabber examples such as with Ballast and Frozen River. So there is always reason to be excited about the announcement of this section. As expected the debuts from Sophie Barthes, John Hindman and Cruz Angeles will be the make up of 16 film selection (read my predictions here). I'm already familiar with at least half of the projects as with John Krasinski’s debut and Adam Salky’s feature length film project but of course, the rest were completely off my radar. Among the projects we covered here are Lee Daniels’ latest Push (not the Summit film) which includes Lenny Kravitz’ screen debut (which means we can expect him to pick up a guitar for one of them parties). THR announced that Nicholas Jasenovec and
- 12/3/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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