Anna Fiscus

Chi-Raq: Where ancient Greek theatre meets modern day Chicago

Time to revise your classics, folks. Based on a 2500-year-old Greek play Lysistrata by sarcastic Greek writer Aristophanes, Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is set in Southern Chicago where the gang wars exasperate the civilians as they mourn a growing number of victims. With a music-clip-styled opening, the exposition sums up the debauchery...
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Posted Jan. 16, 2017

The Glitz and “Clamour” of the red carpet

Thanks to his job, my father was invited to attend the American Film Festival in Deauville (Normandy) for a week and gallantly, he proposed to his very lucky daughter. Along the way I could pretend I was doing some preparatory work for my film studies degree too! Celebrities stepped out...
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Posted Oct. 13, 2016