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Win “I AM ALI” DVD!
POST UPDATE: As of 12/21/2014 I have not chosen a winner. At the end of every Tinsel & Tine post there are share icons, just click a social media platform and then send me the URL once it’s posted, it’s that simple! Muhammad Ali is a name known and revered the world over for his feats and fancy inside the ring. Here’s a peek inside of the man outside of the ring. I AM ALI is now out on DVD & Blu Ray – Tinsel & Tine has 3 “I Am Ali” DVD’s to give away! And since I have to shell out the postage on this one, I’m…
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I Really Think They’re Dancing – ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR
Got a chance to screen Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, it has no relation to the hilarious computer animated Dreamworks animals we’ve come to love, but it’s smart marketing to make you wonder because of the name. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar is a documentary on the real creatures who have been here practically since the beginning of time, scientists believe they survived the meteors that killed the dinosaurs and drifted from Africa on a little chunk of island to the bigger island of Madagascar located in the western Indian Ocean. Once in Madagascar these Lemurs thrived and became many different species – over 100 different Lemur species, including some as large…
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Highlight: American Promise
Have you heard about this doc – AMERICAN PROMISE ? It’s an emotional tale about race, class and the exclusive struggles that black boys in America must endure when attempting to achieve academically. The film intimately chronicles the lives of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers, a pair of middle-class African-American male students trying to navigate one of the nation’s most prestigious schools from kindergarten to graduation. Storytellers (parents) Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, both first generation college graduates, have been traveling the country speaking about the labor of love that won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award in 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival. “We both have come to understand…
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Partaking: A Polite Bribe
Was invited to a screening of a biopic on the Apostle Paul called A Polite Bribe by filmmaker Robert Orlando. For as long as I can remember, I’ve attended bible study classes; not continuously and never formally at a University or College, but regularly through a church. Sadly and disgracefully, I retain very little and can regurgitate nothing. In recent years, I tend to go not for religious instruction, or spiritual learning, but more for historical interest. Which is the perspective of A Polite Bribe. Told through chiaroscuro animation, a style which features a single light source, Orlando focuses on a man who possessed unwaveringly resilience and determination. Paul’s mission…
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Commentary – Bully
Philadelphia Film Society (click to read PFS member’s comments on this film) hosted a preview screening of Bully, formerly called The Bully Project. Which actually was screened in October during the 20th Philadelphia Film Festival, but I, and many others didn’t pay it much attention. It deserves attention. Director/Writer/Producer/Cinematographer Lee Hirsch who was bullied throughout his childhood, wanted to make a film that would give voice to kids who deal with this torment on a daily basis. His camera follows the lives of 3 kids currently being tortured: verbally, mentally, physically, but oddly, only a mention is made of cyber bullying, which is so prevalent today. Hirsch also interviews two…
