A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. ... - [More]

Posted: April 4, 2013 in Movies

Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programming patterns that resulted in self-directing war computers of the highest sort. Generals, consequently listened to him. Heads of congressional committees too.... - [More]

Posted: December 22, 2012 in Books, Movies

MuseumOfFreeDerry.org | As thousands of Civil Rights marchers set off from the Bishops Field in Creggan just before 3 o’clock the mood was upbeat. The sun was shining, the air was crisp and the atmosphere was akin to a carnival. The march had been banned by the Stormont government but there was no sense of fear as the marchers, singing and chanting, wound their way down from Creggan and through the Brandywell and Bogside. It was common knowledge that the IRA had withdrawn from the Bogside.... - [More]

Posted: January 30, 2012 in Articles, Movies, Videos

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.... - [More]

Posted: October 27, 2011 in Movies

An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own. ... - [More]

Posted: July 18, 2011 in Movies

Made in 1929, Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor, Elizaveta Svilova (who was also his wife), and his cinematographer, Mikhail Kaufman (also his brother), that the true goal of cinema should be to present life as it is lived. To that end, the filmmakers offer a day-in-the-life portrait of a city from dawn until dusk, though they actually shot their footage in several cities, including Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa.... - [More]

Posted: May 1, 2011 in Movies

Extraterrestrial fast-food franchisers come to earth to pick up food supplies-in this case, human flesh. After wiping out a few small towns, the aliens must contend with a team of government assassins, headed by Pete O’Herne. As the plot rolls on, O’Herne’s crew is decimated in as gory a manner as possible, and innocent bystander Craig Smith ends up being marinated (and a darned good job it is). Turns out that the space folks are running on a timetable; they’ve got to return to their home planet with their human-hash cargo before a rival franchise puts them out of business.... - [More]

Posted: March 30, 2011 in Movies

Archon Defender follows the path of a young woman, Colette, as she seeks her way through adversity to redemption, as the world she once knew is torn apart by war and tyranny.... - [More]

Posted: January 2, 2011 in Movies

Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked and killed his father… Teenaged Mowgli, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against ‘beasts’ including Mowgli; not so Buldeo’s pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.... - [More]

Posted: November 20, 2010 in Movies

Based on Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novella of the same name, Aleksandr Petrov’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is a masterpiece of animated short films, taking a classic story and offering it a beauty that only Petrov could accomplish. Completed over two and a half years, the film was created using paint-on-glass animation, a technique which uses slow-drying pastel oil paints on glass sheets. Running for approximately 20 minutes, the film is comprised of more than 29,000 paintings.... - [More]

Posted: November 5, 2010 in Movies