MOVIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST

release date:   November 1, 2006 Director :   Sut Jhally Writers :   Jack Shaheen, Jeremy Earp   Producers:   Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp Main Cast :   Sut Jhally, Mary Patierno, Jason Young, Kenyon King, Jack Shaheen, Ana Obregón   Reel Bad Arabs is a documantery shining light on how western movies portrays Arabs- usually always being negative and depicting very hostile, aggressive, greedy people. This documentary shows that we grew up on here in the west, and shows how it shifted so many people's narratives about not only the Middle East but Arabs themselves. Unfortunately we see that the common narrative made of Arabs through movies, even subtly can shift your knowledge without realizing it sometimes. Movies often times portray Arabs, especially men, or women wearing the niqab, also known as the burqa to be terrorsts, and aggressive people, and then another common narrative we find is the submissive Arab women who often times get sexualized. This Docume...

                                                       The Best and Worst Movies ★★★★★   SAN ANDREAS         DIRECTOR: Brad Peyton WRITERS: Carlton Cuse, Andre Fabrizo, Jeremy Passmore              MAIN CAST: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Hugo Burt, Archie Panjabi "San Andreas" is about a man named Ray Gaines who is a search and rescue pilot, trying to get his family to safety when the San Andreas fault line in California cracked open and created the biggest recored earthquake known to man: a level nine earthquake; which then created a tsunami. We are taken through the emotional and heart racing scenes of Ray and his family trying to get from Los Angeles to San Fransisco. This became my favorite movie the moment I watched it. I have see...