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Mogambo is a Problematic Classic

Mogambo is a 1953 MGM film directed by John Ford. It stars Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin and is based on a Wilson Collison play. The film is a remake of Red Dust, a 1932 film that also starred Gable. In the early 1950s, MGM was having financial success with colour remakes of old titles such as King Solomon’s Mines and Quo Vadis. Mogambo made $8.3-million on a budget of $3.1-million. The filming of Mogambo was marred with problems. It was s

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No Brighter Day: Revisiting Ethiopia on 'We Are the World'’s 40th Anniversary

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the most iconic international charity single, We Are the World. Co-written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and performed by 46 American music stars, the song sold over 20 million physical copies and raised more than US$63 million for famine relief in Ethiopia between 1983 and 1985. 46 music stars performed the charity song in 1985 I was reminded of this milestone in entertainment history while I was backpacking through Africa—and Ethiopia was my starting p

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No Brighter Day: Revisiting Ethiopia on 'We Are the World'’s 40th Anniversary

Neill Blomkamp's Last Shot: Reimagining a Cult Classic

In 2009, a director praised by the great Peter Jackson surfaced from the hot South African soil, one that had started seducing a few people with certain pretty wild science fiction ideas related to the class differences of his hometown Johannesburg, making some of his terrifying childhood dreams come true. The person in question is Neill Blomkamp, a type of renewed freshness that presented a tragic, bitter docufiction in equal parts with his great District 9, a brutal anti-apartheid allegory. A

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