No one is safe from mockery in the smart, funny Thai black comedy 6ixtynin9. Against the backdrop of Thailand’s energetic pro-democracy, anti-corruption, student-led demonstrations, writer-director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has fashioned a droll lampoon of police corruption, corporate mismanagement, feck.
One must approach any discussion of bomb-making movies like the recent How to Blow Up a Pipeline very carefully! The entire thing could easily blow up in your face.
This September, the distinguished, award-winning Public Television series The American Experience is releasing two important documentaries on this country’s uneven attempt to desegregate its schools. Much can be learned from these halting, painful experiments.
Na Young is the brightest student in her middle school class in Seoul. She is so driven to succeed that even the one time she loses to her rival Hae Sung, Na Young is so upset that she cries. Still, the two high-achievers bond, emotionally as well as academically.
On May 22, Public Broadcasting Service started streaming its new 5-part series Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland. The series is a brilliant, heart-wrenching, often violent account of the struggle for Irish independence through previously unheard personal testimonies and extensive archival footage.