Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

"Funnel Chinese goods directly to the American public."

Why? Why would people rather have one big store funneling foreign goods - no matter how cheap they are or their quality - as the entire life supply for their town? And when there's nothing left, the Wal-Mart employees have to take their paycheck and walk right back into the store. Cheap foreign goods from Wal-Mart are the only thing they can afford.

And it's not like Wal-Mart is helping out those foreign workers, either.

It's an over-the-top documentary styl that I don't appreciate, but looking past the method of delivery, the truth behind it is compelling.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
2005, 95 minutes, directed by Robert Greenwald

Gran Torino

This wasn't what I expected, but what did I expect? He's not 40 any more, but he does play a convincing angry, racist old man.

It's a poignant swan song for a life of violence. And it's done.

Gran Torino
2008, 116 minutes, directed by Clint Eastwood