Sentences with phrase «about the drug war»

Naranjo numbs sensation to make his points about the drug war's damage to Mexico, turning Miss Bala into a thriller from the dissociative first person perspective.

Did making this movie change the way you think about the drug war or the border?

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.

This is a thriller about the drug war on the U.S. - Mexican border.

Sicario was among the best films to premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and even naysayers (who place too much emphasis on what the film is or isn't «saying» about the drug war) tend to concede that it's gripping as hell.

When the dust clears, Cartel Land comes to equally despairing conclusions about the drug war and the attempts of ordinary citizens taking peacekeeping into their own hands.

Checkout Handcuffs in the Sand a true storie about the Drug War.

I still write about the drug war because, hey, something needs to fund my habit — and I'm really good at it.

Mapa Teatro, a collective based in Bogota, Colombia, uses theater, performance, and installation to create complex visual narratives that ask open - ended questions about the drug war, violence and other global issues.

He was writing about the drug war and whether Obama will address that global crisis during his second term and framed the question in the context of the gay rights movement and the many successes it has achieved during the past four years.

«I have a trip booked to a resort in Cancun Mexico but I am frightened by all the news about the drug wars occurring in some of the border towns in Mexico.

Not exact matches

Even as his counterparts like Atlanta rapper Killer Mike — who has been very vocal about America's racist war on drugs and his own political beliefs — used their celebrity for fundraising, meetings with politicians, and self - penned articles; the rapper usually left politics to the side as he expanded his business and rose to the top of the corporate ladder.

I find myself speaking out more and more about the things I can not accept — like the failed war on drugs, mistreatment of refugees, prejudice against the LGBT community, or the fact that the death penalty still exists despite being proven to not deter crime.

Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

the «war on terror» is about a fake a war as the «war on drugs».

The gang also talks about the evolution of late - night comedy and the war on drugs.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

«About 4 million people above the age of 12 in the United States used an illegal drug in 1970, before we started the war,» says Jack Cole, a retired police officer and founder of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

Though Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running War on Drugs is the first step in forming an intelligent opinion.

And though different Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running «War on Drugs» is the first step in forming your own opinion.

Just as it was not uncommon to carpool with other families to the Medford Airport and wave miniature American flags as Ronald Reagan spoke into a microphone about his War on Drugs.

Heard about the war on drugs that was launched earlier (Under Reagan wasn't it?)

When they experimented with a different approach, world governments realised that being sensible about legal highs meant bringing the war on drugs to its knees.

Gillibrand said Sunday that she sent a letter to Sessions inviting him to talk about the impacts the War on Drugs has had on New York's black and Latino communities with constituents who are denied jobs, housing and college financial aid because of nonviolent, low - level pot arrests.

But from what is public about their toxic relationship, Brown didn't practice tough love... he was an enablear.Whitney's tragedy should not be used to defend the counterproductive war on drugs.This war has failed; mainly serves the money intererts of the prison / industrial complex; and has strongly curtailed our civil liberties.Insteaed, Houston's tragedy should be used to argue the position that drugs and drug addiction is a medical issue, not a criminal issue.The war on drugs should be reconfigured, beginning with the legalization of medical pot

Hawkins joined with Alice Green and Center for Law and Justice to deliver 10,000 petition signatures to Cuomo Tuesday calling on the governor to establish a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to study the impacts of mass incarceration on New Yorkers, largely brought about by the failed war on drugs.

That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a landmark legal battle — and is fuelling a war of words between doctors marketing such therapies and academics who urge caution.

So if we're talking about war — the real thing, not a metaphor, as in the «war on drugs» — then cyberwar has never happened in the past, is not taking place at present, and seems unlikely in the future.

You may know enough about Mexican drug trafficking and that its war on drugs, which has left thousands dead, to appreciate Dr. Mireles's questions; and you may also have strong ethical and political views on vigilantism.

What's missing is a directorial point of view, including about vigilante groups, the so - called war on drugs, and Mexican and American policies and politics.

Clearly told, the movie also asks questions about the criminal justice system and how the poor and minorities become trapped in it that somebody will have to answer one day, with a special focus on the war on drugs.

In this classic special from 1992, comedian Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow - jobs, religion, war, peace, drugs and music.

There are statistics given at the end of «Miss Bala» about how many people have died in the drug wars in northern Mexico.

«Forrest Gump,» starring Stephen Chow This mid-20th century «American Dream» fairy tale takes on a whole new meaning when, instead of being about some dimwitted white boy from Alabama, it follows a Chinese tourist looking get the full American experience: playing college football, going to war in Asia, accidentally investing in Apple in the»70s, watching his mother die for lack of good healthcare options, and settling down with the cool rebel girl who's found Jesus and stopped doing drugs.

Narco Terror is an arcade twin - stick shooter about a one - man war against the drug cartel.

Global Citizen spoke with the director of «City of Ghosts,» Matthew Heineman, the American filmmaker best known for his 2015 documentary Cartel Land about the Mexican drug war.

While Sicario was nihilistic about the war on drugs and Hell or High Water about banks, Wind River isn't nihilistic.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

NEW YORK — A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night.

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The World Made Straight (R for violence, drug use, sexual references and profanity) Adaptation of the Ron Rash novel of the same name, set in the Seventies, about a troubled young man (Jeremy Irvine) eager to escape a rural Appalachian community stained by the legacy of a Civil War massacre.

Even if the film doesn't tell us much that we don't already know about America's drug wars, it tells it with abundant skill.

The violence shown here exceeds that in Heineman's previous film, Cartel Land, about the Mexican drug wars.

Sicario: This is a strong film about the war between drug cartels and American government agencies, which captures the brutality of the conflict.

OLIVER STONE»S SAVAGES By Scott Foundas Oliver Stone interviewed about his post-Iraq War drug thriller

What's missing is a directorial point of view, including about vigilante groups, the so - called war on drugs, and Mexican and U.S. policies and politics.

The movie, adapted from Robert Mazur's book about his time as an undercover agent for the United States Customs Service, follows «Operation «C» Chase,» a sting operation during the mid-to-late 1980s that redirected the War on Drugs toward the oldest investigative trick in the book: Follow the money.

Twice Born (R for violence, rape, sexuality, nudity, profanity and drug use) Flashback drama about a widow's (Penelope Cruz) reflections upon returning home to Bosnia with her teenage son (Pietro Castellitto) for the first time since barely escaping war - torn Sarajevo alive when he was an infant.

Johnnie To) Hong Kong master Johnnie To (Drug War, Mad Detective) directs superstars Chow Yun - Fat and Sylvia Chang in this spectacular movie musical about high - level corporate intrigue.

Another dispatch from the Mexican drug war, this time about noncombatants caught in the crossfire, it pales in comparison to Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala in filmmaking terms but I suppose that it packs a crude punch (body count: 3 + 2 dogs).