Ayam Beirut El Cinemaiya Poster

The 7th edition of Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya (Cinema Days of Beirut), a film festival happening every two years, is taking place in 2013 from March 15th to 24th. Beirut DC, organizers of the event, offered The JR Express a press festival pass and thus the opportunity to know more about the 49 films being […]

Mamnou3! Lebanese Web Series

. I already evoked the major issue of media censorship in Lebanon in the video-report I did in January 2012. On Sunday, June 25th a new Lebanese web-series released its teaser, for the first season, on YouTube and reached more than a 1,500 views in the first 24 hours. “Mamnou3!” (Forbidden in Arabic), created by […]

Monsters University

I am a big fan of Pixar’s animation movies. Along with the release of  “Brave” few days ago, which I haven’t seen yet but will do as soon as possible, the studio announced their next movie: “Monsters University” (2013). This prequel for Monsters Inc. (2001) bring us back to the university life of Mike and […]

The JR Express Censored

Here is a short video or kind of report I did as a final project for my Digital Media Literacy course at university. It tackles the issue of media censorship in Lebanon and how the web can be used to overcome it. Here is the list of some ideas covered in the report: • Arab […]

Pogo is a very creative Australian DJ. He takes random sound clips and chords from movies and put them together in such an impressive way to create a song. He creates also video clips for his songs with footages from the movie he took the sound bits from. He made a lot of remixes the […]