Studios were terrified for years
Studios were terrified for years to put anything up against the Saw franchise during Halloween time. Then, last year, a tiny shoe string budget flick called Paranormal Activity proved to be David in the fight against Goliath, trouncing the long running series in its opening week by $7 million. The way the film gained steam was by only releasing it in areas that requested it and now, with Paranormal Activity 2 set to drop this October, they are bringing back that idea with a sweepstakes.Aided by the UN High Commissioner for human rights in Bosnia Madeleine Rees Vanessa Redgrave and a sympathetic compatriot in HR David Strathairn, Kathy assembles all the evidence to expose her crooked colleagues, only to be discouraged, then threatened, then fired by her higher ups. Its a typical trajectory for any whistleblower story, but with the girls who have told their stories to Kathy still stuck in slavery, the stakes are incredibly high. Without ever drawing blatant comparisons between Kathys struggle against the male dominated UN and the girls fighting with their abusive captors, Kondracki effectively tells The Whistleblowwer as a broad story about women fighting back against impossible odds. Kathy may be in an immeasurably more privileged position that the sex slaves, but shes still struggling in the same circumstances that insist on treating women as second class citizens.The opening of Julian Lennon’s Timeless The Photography of Julian Lennon last night at New York’s Morrison Hotel Gallery, was, as you might expect, jam packed Midway through the evening, Yoko Ono, Sean and Julian Lennon themselves emerged into the room for a tour, laughing together and pausing to look at intimate shots of U2 My dad wasn’t really a photographer, so it just allows me to breathe a little more, Lennon told Rolling Stone He used to take a couple Polaroid’s, but it wasn’t a potential career This is my own thing. 
