The James Logan Courier

By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief

In director Preston A. Whitmore's This Christmas, an emotional adult family drama, everybody has a secret, and these secrets are not just what’s under the Christmas tree. Combining the holiday spirit with sister rivalry, divorce, infidelity and in-the-closet interracial romance, Whitmore tells the story of a middle class African American family's Christmas that consists of unresolved resentments and enduring love.

By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief

Warner Bros. Pictures' new movie, Fred Claus, directed by David Dobkin, gives the audience yet another look into the spirit of Christmas.

Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) has lived his entire life being the brother of a benevolent and beloved Saint. Although Fred tried, he was never able to live up to the example set by his younger sibling Nicholas (Paul Giamatti). Nicholas grew up to be the model of giving while Fred was quite the opposite.

By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief

Enchanted, directed by Kevin Lima, is a classical Disney fairytale that collides with modern day New York.

The movie begins in an animated forest, where lovely Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) sings with her animal friends of finding true love. She catches the eye and heart of dashing Prince Edward (James Marsden), and the two plan to wed the next day. But Edward's evil stepmother, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), doesn't want the prince marrying a commoner. So the queen arranges for Giselle to take a tumble into modern day Manhattan, where she is in for a rude awakening.

From wikipedia:
José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a famous Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, and less realistic than fascinated by machines Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Claremont, California, New York City, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Jiquilpan, Michoacán. His drawing and paintings are exhibited by the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, and the Orozco Workshop-Museum in Guadalajara.

See 11 of Jose Clemente Orozco's paintings, free from Ciudad de la Pintura.