The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Tasteless might be one of the deadliest insulting words for us, the Mac generation. For book aficionados, that means reading works found in airport kiosks’ merry-go-round bookshelves. Therefore, I have avoided The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for a long time. That...

Quantity = Quality

This is me, seven years old. I live in a foreign country called Malta, a small island in the Mediterranean. There is a daily survival war at my school.  My friends exchange secret codes unknown to me, and my teacher throws me impossible missions labeled as...

The Movie World is Flat

Reading stories of independent movie makers is fun because their backgrounds, methodologies, ideals are all different. But one theme is curiously similar (except for their love of films): how difficult a task it is to make their films. On that point, sometimes they...