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This week there’s something strange lurking out there in the dark. While aliens and trolls cause havoc here and abroad, a band of British and Middle Eastern comedians take to the road to crack jokes and break down barriers. And if you’re eager to take these kinds of thrills and chuckles home, we’ve got a slew of suggestions for your viewing pleasure.
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Super 8
Sci-fi icon Steven Spielberg and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams team up to bring this much-anticipated tale of childhood adventure and alien mystery to theaters. Super 8 centers on a tight-knit group of adolescent filmmakers who witness a horrifying train crash — and later spot something far more frightening emerge from the wreckage. But who will believe them? Joel Courtney,...
This week there’s something strange lurking out there in the dark. While aliens and trolls cause havoc here and abroad, a band of British and Middle Eastern comedians take to the road to crack jokes and break down barriers. And if you’re eager to take these kinds of thrills and chuckles home, we’ve got a slew of suggestions for your viewing pleasure.
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Super 8
Sci-fi icon Steven Spielberg and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams team up to bring this much-anticipated tale of childhood adventure and alien mystery to theaters. Super 8 centers on a tight-knit group of adolescent filmmakers who witness a horrifying train crash — and later spot something far more frightening emerge from the wreckage. But who will believe them? Joel Courtney,...
- 6/9/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
Comedian/director Ahmed Ahmed in Just Like Us In the spring of 2009, a dozen American and international comedians and I set out for the Middle East on a four-country comedy tour. What we embarked on was groundbreaking, to say the least. Two years prior to that, I had toured the Middle East with a group of strictly Middle Eastern comics, and we called our show The Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour. After we made history introducing Arab-American stand up comedy to the region, I thought it would be a great idea to mix it up a bit and allow American comics to actually perform "American" stand-up comedy, and it worked much better than I thought. We filmed the tour, called Just Like Us, and cut 200 hours of footage into a 72-minute, (eventually) award-winning documentary. With the help of my incredible producers Taylor Feltner and Matt Blaine, and our awesome editors...
- 6/9/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
Getty Images Ahmed Ahmed
In the wake of September 11th, my life took a left turn into a world I never saw coming and suddenly I was hurled into a cross fire of hatred, racial profiling and misunderstanding. Up until that day, Arab-Muslims in America had always been viewed in such a way that made it difficult for the average person to identify with, and then it got worse. At the time, I was an out-of-work actor living in Hollywood...
In the wake of September 11th, my life took a left turn into a world I never saw coming and suddenly I was hurled into a cross fire of hatred, racial profiling and misunderstanding. Up until that day, Arab-Muslims in America had always been viewed in such a way that made it difficult for the average person to identify with, and then it got worse. At the time, I was an out-of-work actor living in Hollywood...
- 6/6/2011
- by Ahmed Ahmed
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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