The Second Borat film also called Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bride to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a story by Sacha Braon Cohen who actually plays the character Borat Sagdiyev. Following the events of the first documentary/mockumentary, Borat 2 finds its hero in jail for treason for bringing dishonor to his homeland.  In order to secure his release, he is tasked with bringing a monkey to President Donald Trump.  When Borat discovers that the monkey cannot be delivered, he decides to give his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova) to Vice President Pence instead.

Now what’s interesting about this film is the amount of times he’s managed to infiltrate real-life Republican and Right Wing gatherings. When I first saw the film, I truly wasn’t for sure if he had actually attended some of these rallies until I looked online and indeed it was true. 

Sacha Baron Cohen actually went to the Conservative Political Action Conference that Mike Pence was at as his character Borat Sagdiyev dressed as Trump. In an interview he said how difficult it was for him to get in but as we see in the film he was successful. The second notable instance were he attended a real-life event was at a Far Right Wing rally full of militias such as “the Proud Boys” and racist groups like “Nazis”. Sacha even sang at the event but was quickly discovered and because of this fled in his van as people banged on the door.

But the final and perhaps the most controversial part of the film was when Borat 15 year-old daughter Tutar who was interviewing Rudy Giuliani and possibly almost had sexual intercourse. That said, we don’t know if Giuliani knew she was 15 years old and the real actress age is 24 but the situation as a whole is very strange. Giuliani thought Tutar was a journalist but Sacha as Borat stepped in telling Giuliani “STOP SHE’S 15!” as Giuliani took his hands out of his pants. In an interview Sacha Cohen said that situation was a bit scary because he didn’t want to get Maria hurt in any way. 

Overall these three instances are memorable in the film and somewhat effected the real world. With that said, the over-all film was interesting as it was slightly political but had a comedic effect to it. Personally I think the film was kinda funny but defiantly not a family film. 

Many curses words, sexual references and antisemitism, therefore the movie is rated R. But over-all the film is what I expected from a Sacha Baron Cohen story so if you like his previous work then you’ll like this movie.

If you’re bored during lockdown, fret not because the latest action flick is here. If you’re 

tired of superhero, spy ‘or’ war films than you should check out “Love and Monsters” directed 

by Michael Matthews. The story begins with narration by the protagonist Joel Dawson played 

by Dylan O’Brien. He explains how the earth was almost destroyed by an asteroid, but all 

nations around the world sent nuclear bombs to destroy it. Surprisingly it worked however 

when the radiation rained back down it mutated small animals such as craps and frogs and 

insects such as ants and centipedes. All these creatures and more turned into monsters and 

began devouring humanity and thus came the end of civilization and mankind being on the top 

of the food chain. 

The plot starts with Joel seven years later in an underground bunker (like most of 

humanity) in fear of what lies above the surface. Everyone in his colony has a lover but him, 

prior to the end of the world Joel had a girlfriend named Aimee but they were split up at the 

beginning of the apocalypse. However, he managed to find her colony via radio and they 

actually communicate quite often until one day giant ant breaks into his colony and even kills a 

few of their members. Because of this tragic event Joel decides to leave his colony and find 

Aimee fueled by a sense of purpose to protect her and believing that by reaching her, life would 

return back to normal and of course there is the fear of not wanting to die alone. Therefore, he 

sets of on his journey to find Aimee. Along his journey he finds a dog, meets a man named 

Clyde Dutton played by Micheal Rooker and learns how to survive in the wild even meets a 

robot. 

The film follows all the beats of “The Hero’s Journey,” a young character who can’t quite 

do for self but meets others who helps them and trains them along the way ending with the 

protagonist a changed a new person. We’ve seen it all before right? Yes, however although you 

may consider this a B+ film it surprisingly had some emotional moments and very good 

character development. On top of this the visuals were beautiful, especially at a scene in the 

film were you see glowing, flying jelly fish. Something about that scene with, Ben E. King’s 

“Stand By Me” playing in the background is very satisfying and reminds me of James Cameron 

Avatar film.

Now you maybe wondering if the film has a lot of death and mayhem although we do 

have monsters and they do eat people you never directly see it. The film isn’t gore when it 

comes to human death scenes and for a film with monsters set in the end of the world you may 

assume it could be very sad. Although there are emotional moments, the film isn’t depressing, 

at times its actually funny. Most of the humor coming from three human characters and even a 

dog. So, if you fear that this movie could depress you fret not because it may uplift you.

As for sexual content there are only a few kissing scenes and a couple in bed but you 

only see the legs and no actual sex. The film is rated PG-13 thus only so much can be shown, so 

if you want to watch this with the family on Thanksgiving go right ahead. As for language it’s 

mild and there aren’t any F-Bombs but it does have a few more curse words than a typical live-

action Disney film. Over-all this is a great film to watch if you have nothing else to watch and I 

would say still watch it even if you have something to watch. When you get a chance check out 

“Love and Monsters,” shown on Video on Demand or AppleTV.

Betty Williams was born on army base Elgin Field in Florida, her father fought in World

War II but they moved to east Texas in Athens where her father was from. Betty graduated

from Athens High School and went to Henderson County Junior College until she was

transferred to East Texas State University where she received a Master’s degree in School

Administration. Over the course of her life she became a school teacher in Dallas, Texas and this

lead her to Texarkana where she taught as a school teacher for 15 years. Eventually she joined

the Texarkana City council because former council woman Tina Bill health grew worse.

Williams was voted in on December 16th and was sworn in the next month January 17th.

Council Betty Williams believes that the downtown area of Texarkana, Texas is

becoming more successful over the years. With that being said, she does believe we need more

residential areas and that town down needs even more industry. S he also wants the Wards

such as her Ward, Ward 3 to be clean, have the property mowed and littering stopped. Mrs.

Williams offers residents to come to the City Council and offer ideas to make Texarkana a

better city. Another great aspect about Mrs. Williams is that if she was given a grant of one

million dollars to be used for the city she would fix neighborhood streets and drainage. Many

areas in Texarkana has cracked roads and some areas have light flooding so repairing the roads

and drainage pipes would be very beneficial to the residents of Texarkana.

Williams believes in protecting our students and teachers, she says we

should spread them out in the classrooms and wearing masks. She even goes as far as to say

working online and perhaps not even attending school but instead using long distance learning.

As for the elderly in nursing homes she believes in zero contact, the best option would be

online such as phone calls or zoom sense in her words “they are the most vulnerable.” It’s quite

apparent that she wants to keep Texarkana-ians safe whether old or young when it comes to

Covid-19. She wants Texarkana to grow and any unkempt areas to be repaired and cleaned.

She is an over-all hard worker from teaching our young and the next generation of Americans,

to thinking of the people and our needs.