An honest civil servant battles a crime syndicate in the early 1900s.
Posts published by “Zack Anderson”
In Pontevedra, the din of motors and horns has been replaced by birdsong and human voices.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/drug-war-mexico-gas-oil-cartel-717563/
Sarah Hudston on remote and obscure places.
Multi-year droughts, crop failures, Cape Town on the verge of going dry, outbreaks of violence: are we running out of usable water?
The critics are mostly raving about Spike Lee's latest movie, BlacKkKlansman. And, as usual, the critics are mostly wrong. Based on the autobiographical account of the first African American cop on the Colorado Springs police force, the film opens with the words: "Some fo real, fo real shit." It's the first clue that the film will be almost pure fiction, despite what the PR flackeys and media lackeys profess. And, just as advertised, Lee's fo real narrative resembles the true story as much as a McDonald's FishWich approximates a rock cod fillet.
Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering and a murder plot.