Showing posts with label Colin Farrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colin Farrell. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Colin Farrell Snags/Shags Ondine

Any movie lovers out there ready for something completely different? Join Colin Farrell on the emerald isle for an Irish-arts-funded film called Ondine. How's this for a story you haven't heard before?

A fisherman with a stinky life snags a supermodel (Alicja Bachleda) in his net. His wheelchair-bound daughter believes this fresh catch-of-the-day is a magical mythological creature from Scotland (out of whence also came her creepy stepfather).

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Men Must Find The Way Back

I once stood before a group of thick-necked, mafioso-looking Bulgarian men with the task of inspiring them in their post-Soviet corporate careers. They looked sceptical. I didn't blame them for a lack of enthusiasm about becoming low-payed, foreign-managed cubicle-jockeys. One unibrow raised his hand. "Why are you wearing that diamond stud in your ear?" he demanded. I paused before answering.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Colin Farrell Sports Double-wide Chariot

Most travels change the traveler. This trip changed the world. Had Alexander of Macedonia not gone East, a Jew named Joshua wouldn't be known by the Greek translation Jesus and many ancient classics preserved in Alexandria's library wouldn't be known at all.

The movie Alexander accomplishes two things exceptionally. First, it gives a real sense of the scope and audacity of this epic journey of conquest. Second, it profoundly illuminates the influence parental ambitions can have on an offspring's achievements and obsessions. Yet, the film sheds no light on two inscrutable mysteries: