Month: July 2013

21/07/2013 Craigslist | Craigslist Killer | Craigslist Movie | Julissa Brisman | Philip Markoff Feitosa-Santana

The Craigslist Killer: It is not only One, there are Many Killers; One more Reason why Prostitution should be Decriminalized

A Boston medical student named Philip Markoff used Craigslist (2009) to solicit several women for sexual encounters, and although he killed solely Julissa Brissman, he had many victims. Markoff was identified via hotel surveillance cameras and emails, and was apprehended while driving to Foxwoods Casino with his fiancée, also a medical student. He killed himself in his cell in […]

21/07/2013 Adrift Cannes | Cinema A Deriva | festival de cannes | Separação Feitosa-Santana

Adrift (À Deriva) Movie

Brazil, Buzios 80’s. A couple in crisis, Mathias (Vincent Cassel) and Clarice (Debora Block). 3 children. Filipa (Laura Neiva), the oldest and main character, feels the tension between the parents, the mother’s constant drunkenness and the beginning of her father’s affair with an American woman, Angela (Camilla Belle). Adrift, Filipa watches everything while transitioning between […]

21/07/2013 Adrift Cannes | Cinema A Deriva | festival de cannes | Separação Feitosa-Santana

Adrift (À Deriva) Movie

Brazil, Buzios 80’s. A couple in crisis, Mathias (Vincent Cassel) and Clarice (Debora Block). 3 children. Filipa (Laura Neiva), the oldest and main character, feels the tension between the parents, the mother’s constant drunkenness and the beginning of her father’s affair with an American woman, Angela (Camilla Belle). Adrift, Filipa watches everything while transitioning between […]

21/07/2013 1984 George Orwell | Aldous Huxley Admirable New World | Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | human-rights | internet | Orange is the New Black | politics | society | technology Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: The Big Brother and the Entertainment Manipulation

by Kate Epstein The Snowden leaks and ensuing debates about our government, big data, and privacy have led to more Orwell allusions than I’ve heard in all of my (admittedly post-1984) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant surveillance of twenty-first-century America to the ubiquitous presence of Big Brother in the prescient 1949 novel. […]