Tweet When I was a little kid I used to love wathcing Different Strokes. Arnold Jackson played by Gary Coleman was like the first non-white friend I ever had. He was a little brother, I was a little brother. I think I even named my first goldfish Abraham just like his. I even used to [...]

Tweet The movies I showed at the American Language Center in Fez during the last two weeks were far different than my first round of classic Academy Award Winners. I decided that since I was looking to spawn great conversations but that my audience was primarily Moroccan teens, I decided to address two issues that [...]

Tweet A few weeks ago, I decided to show an absolutely terrible movie to the students at the ALC Fez. The movie I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is a parody of the black exploitation films of the 1970s. From the get go, this film had no chance to be good. There is something compelling about [...]

Tweet I’ve been running the film club at the ALC Fez for a few months now and I thought I would write a little bit about the films that we’ve shown and the reaction to them from the Moroccan students who attended. The first film as previously discussed was Casablanca. http://www.vagobond.com/2010/01/casablanca-the-film-revisited/ For the next one, [...]