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50M2 – Only three weeks ago, I observed that Netflix was starting to take after
SCTV by filling their schedule with Turkish programming. Well, they re definitely calling my bluff, because here comes another Istanbul-bred offering this one a black-comedy series about a hitman who hides from his past by assuming ownership of a tailor shop. Don t tell Sammy he made the pants too long, I guess, or you ll end up comparing inseams with Luca Brasi. In Turkish, yet! (
Netflix)
Penguin Bloom – An embattled family s true-life memoir was the source for this wannabe-uplifting feature, in which Naomi Watts plays an Australian woman who becomes paralyzed while on vacation in Thighland. Wait, I mean Thailand we don t have to do jokes like that anymore! Anyway, she gets all depressed and stuff, until the family adopts a baby magpie whose physical challenges she can relate to. Prepare to have your heart good and warmed although you may want to skip the part where W
Some people judge a movie by its content while others measure it by its box office. Others go a little further and weigh it by its quotability. This is where bad movies can shine and stand next to classics.
You might forget some scenes from the movie but line upon line of entertainment is on the tip of your tongue. That ability to get us to say a piece of dialogue over and over just hits differently.
Let’s take a look at some of them.
Comedies stand out as easy targets. A good one can be elevated with a catchy zinger or two but several go far beyond that and get the label of CLASSIC status with lines that will echo in eternity.
Festivals are back: Mona Foma gets underway with a huge night of live music Luca Brasi
Pics by Bandanna Photography
We went along to the first night of Mona Foma and this is what went down.
The first major cultural event for the year, and indeed for quite awhile, Tasmania’s Mona Foma has been willfully reigniting live arts and music throughout January. In 2021, the festival sprawls both Launceston and Hobart, across two weekends, bringing Violent Femmes’ bassist and festival director Brian Ritchie’s next ingenuities to the fore.
On Friday January 15, Mona Foma commenced with
Mofo Sessions – the first of three concerts that took place on Launceston’s beautiful River Tamar. A delightfully-satirical and more-than-a-little-naughty performance by the
31-35 Interesting Facts About Mobs, Gangs, Mafias, and Cartels
31. Between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs into the USA, while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. – Source
32. Arnold Rothstein, a kingpin of the Jewish mafia who was behind the Black Sox scandal, refused to identify his killer to the police, saying “You stick to your trade. I’ll stick to mine.” – Source
33. In 2011, the Los Zetas drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to the death like gladiators. The winners were then sent on suicide missions – Source