Machan

Based on a true story, "Machan" is about of a group of 23 men who concoct a bogus Sri Lankan national handball team -- a sport unknown in the country -- and use it as a ruse to immigrate illegally to the West.

Scenes from Hong Kong's Filmart 2009

The closer is "Machan," directed by Uberto Pasolini, one of the producers of "The Full Monty" (1997).

unknown title 2009

Here are three of the more bizarre assertions/insinuations made by Machan:

Bizarre 2009

I've read some interesting interpretations and controversial opinions about Pope Benedict XVI's most recent encyclical, "Charity in Truth," but a column titled, "Pope's plea for love to replace trade is a dream" (YumaSun. com, Sept. 25, 2009), by Tibor R. Machan, who teaches at Chapman University and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is simply bewildering, not to mention rather hysterical and flatly incorrect on several counts.

Anti-Catholicism 2009

I've read some interesting interpretations and controversial opinions about Pope Benedict XVI's most recent encyclical, "Charity in Truth," but a column titled, "Pope's plea for love to replace trade is a dream" (YumaSun. com, Sept. 25, 2009), by Tibor R. Machan, who teaches at Chapman University and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is simply bewildering, not to mention rather hysterical and flatly incorrect on several counts.

Bizarre 2009

I've read some interesting interpretations and controversial opinions about Pope Benedict XVI's most recent encyclical, "Charity in Truth," but a column titled, "Pope's plea for love to replace trade is a dream" (YumaSun. com, Sept. 25, 2009), by Tibor R. Machan, who teaches at Chapman University and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is simply bewildering, not to mention rather hysterical and flatly incorrect on several counts.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

Here are three of the more bizarre assertions/insinuations made by Machan:

Politics 2009

Here are three of the more bizarre assertions/insinuations made by Machan:

Anti-Catholicism 2009

I've read some interesting interpretations and controversial opinions about Pope Benedict XVI's most recent encyclical, "Charity in Truth," but a column titled, "Pope's plea for love to replace trade is a dream" (YumaSun. com, Sept. 25, 2009), by Tibor R. Machan, who teaches at Chapman University and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is simply bewildering, not to mention rather hysterical and flatly incorrect on several counts.

Politics 2009

I've read some interesting interpretations and controversial opinions about Pope Benedict XVI's most recent encyclical, "Charity in Truth," but a column titled, "Pope's plea for love to replace trade is a dream" (YumaSun. com, Sept. 25, 2009), by Tibor R. Machan, who teaches at Chapman University and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is simply bewildering, not to mention rather hysterical and flatly incorrect on several counts.

Theology 2009