The Clout of the Media Giants Five multimedia conglomerates dominate the cross promotion and selling of popular culture to youth. Here are excerpts from FRONTLINE’s interviews with media critics discussing the impact of this power. The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Media and Teenagers Cultural/media analysts talk about the intense relationship existing between youth culture and [...]

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family. Written by Jeff Nichols

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Plot Details: This opinion reveals major details about the movie’s plot. If “Goodbye Solo” (2008) were a Hollywood movie or a feel-good movie from abroad, the Senegalese immigrant Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) who drives a cab at night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and realizes that his septuagenarian tight-lipped white passenger William (Red West) is planning [...]

PROMISES TRAILER from BOOKER HIGH on Vimeo.

Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family’s bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da’s mentally-handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, to get Da home). Da stays a couple days, observing his father being social director, marriage [...]

WHITE BALLOON TRAILER from BOOKER HIGH on Vimeo.

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM TRAILER from BOOKER HIGH on Vimeo.