Today Leonardo DiCaprio ranks indisputably as one of the most famous individuals on the planet. His acting career, launched when he was just 13, granted him early access to the exclusive world of Hollywood glamour and overindulgence. With the face of a mischievous angel, Leo has long played the part of the playboy rogue, but …
When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun Directed by Dirk Simon With it’s rather incendiary title leaving no doubt to its makers political persuasions When The Dragon Swallowed the Sun is an ambitious, holistic and exhausting documentary on the Chinese occupation of Tibet, a controversial incursion of alleged sovereign territory which has painfully endured for the …
Modern Western philosophical patriarch René Descartes is probably best known for his pithy dictum: cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”) – a formulation which led him step by step to a “dualistic” vision of existence, with a radical divide between the physical body and the purely spiritual “mind”.