Author: Hipolito

Review of Joachim Trier’s film “Louder Than Bombs.”

The Quest for Authenticity in Post-Existential Age By Vera Mijojlic In his new film Louder than bombs Norwegian director Joachim Trier masterfully captures the underlying, aimless desires of very decent people who struggle to be authentic in their own lives. Written by Trier and Eskil Vogt, the film is structured as a collage of episodes that fit together like a perfect puzzle, packed with emotions let loose by the death of the mother and wife of a suburban New York family. The action does not offer anything overtly dramatic, yet the emotional intensity is louder than bombs which the...

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Our Complicity With Hate

By Hipolito Munoz, Managing Editor/Publisher One more Muslim family gets kicked out of an airplane, some people are outraged but many others explain that it’s just the policy of the airline. Some Police officers kill folks, and many people excuse it because they feel scared or dismissive of those killed. As time distances us from those events, those that commit them feel more compelled to commit more offences because our silence is interpreted as complicity.     As these actions develop into regular events in our new redesigned country, our society is threatened by the real complicity and need...

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Get Excited the South East European Film Festival 2016 is Almost Here!!

By Hipolito Navarrete, Managing Editor/Publisher The South East European Film Festival’s 11 edition will be coming to Hollywood on April 28th through May 5th 2016. The opening night will be at the Ahrya Fine Arts, 8556 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90211. “SEEfest, a film festival that I consider one of the most important among the film events in the annual Hollywood calendar. “Arnold Schwartzman Academy Award-winning documentary film director of Genocide SeeFest, www.seefilmla.org, as it is know to its fans, focuses on bringing those gems from South Eastern European nations. Some who may have only a couple of...

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We Know You Are Not Like Trump’s Fans

By Hipolito Navarrete, Managing Editor/Publisher As many of us watch Trump create opportunities for violent and morally decrepit people of all colors, although the vast majority of his followers are Anglo, we know that he appeals to the minority of those that harbor hate and resentment and that the vast majority of Anglos are repelled by his politics. The only learning opportunity here is that we, people of color and other minorities,  can now say; now you should understand us when we say we are not all the same, so do not paint us with the same brush. We...

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Its now time to trump Trump’s “Trumpeteers”

By Hipolito Navarrete, Publisher/Managing Editor The Trump train of lies, vulgarity and anger keeps on trolling through the United States and those that are now considering the old lying sack… a true contender are coming to his aid, but of course they are looking out for the America that used to be. The one where a small groups of powerful (people with money) dictated most of the decisions and told their ilk that everything was going to be alright because their uncle is now taking up their flags for one of the most powerful seats in the world. We...

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