Posts Tagged ‘Genocide’

House — Episode 3 (Season 6): “The Tyrant”

Monday, October 5th, 2009
A good episode of House , with a nice turn by Thulsa Doom , full of many layers of moral dilemmas. Plus, if you ignore the scenes dealing with the heart, the medicine was pretty good. Dibala, a brutal African dictator suspected of genocide, is in the United States to address the UN when he suddenly starts coughing up blood (or vomiting blood — it’s not entirely clear). He is admitted to House’s Foreman’s team at Princeton-Plainsboro for evaluation. The team’s initial differential d

September Movie Preview: Part 2

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Posted by sean in Films, General, News on August 31st, 2009 On September 25, the pace seems to pick up for genre movies, with two sci-fi thrillers and one chemical warfare/genocide/semi-zombie flick all dropping the same day. The best of the three is also the biggest-budget, hardest-advertised, and contains infinitely more Bruce Willis than its competitors. In Surrogates, Willis’ character – as well as most everyone else in his futuristic society – lives his life through a robotic duplicate of

When God grows tired of us.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Our friend Ben and Silence Dogood watched a marvelous documentary last night called “God Grew Tired of Us.” It was about the “Lost Boys” of the Sudan, and the title was taken from one “boy’s” explanation of why the endless war and genocide continued in his country. (We rented this film through Netflix, should you wish to see it.) Wonderful and moving as the film was—if you watch it, you’ll realize both what we Americans have in terms of abundance and what we’ve lost in terms of joy and communi