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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM PDT
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This is a newsreel social and political silent documentary, one of the first ever made in the United States, produced by a leftist and communist cinema collective known as The Film and Photo League. Members would film protests and social movements...
by VPSReports
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM PDT
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Vice President Kamala Harris had a special request for Queen Latifah during a surprise cameo appearance in the intro to the 55th NAACP Image Awards. The pre-recorded sketch began by showing Latifah dressed in her robe getting ready to host Saturday’s...
by Charles Jay
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 02:04 PM PDT
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It’s rare a film is so lacking that it actually prompts one, after seeing it, to literally dream about being ripped off. But that’s what happened to me after spending�two hours and nine minutes ...
by Dartagnan
93 comments
on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 05:30 PM PST
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Are you censoring me? Actor Robert De Niro wasn’t about to let anyone remove critical remarks about disgraced former President Donald Trump and Hollywood icon John Wayne�from his speech at the ...
by Charles Jay
126 comments
on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
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As I watched “O Brother Where Art Thou” with my Daughter, I realized why MAGAsplaining is a thing and how we may just be able to help some MAGA Devotees snap out of it: One of my favorite movies, O’ Brother Where Art Thou, is a brilliant mix of Homer’s...
by sepiasiren
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 03:52 PM PST
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Today, I offer some great dance numbers from old movies. Enjoy! Old Movie Stars Dance to “Uptown Funk” x ...
by Youffraita
51 comments
on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 03:30 AM PST
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“The Writer’s Strike is Over!” newsletters and official writers’ markets announced triumphantly, and yes, there is much to celebrate. The strike lasted over 100 days and there were anonymous executives telling Deadline: “The endgame is to allow things...
by sepiasiren
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on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 05:01 PM PDT
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Besides being Humphrey Bogart’s birthday, the 25th of December is also significant as it was the release date in 1993 for an often-overlooked installment in the history of the Caped Crusader’s big-screen adventures. It was, in fact, the only animated...
by toddsmitts
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on Mon Dec 25, 2023 at 07:43 AM PST
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The following historical background on forced sterilization of minority girls and women in the U.S. and beyond runs long, even without delving into the Nazis’ study of U.S. 17th-19th century policies toward indigenous people and the disabled as a basis...
by mettle fatigue
37 comments
on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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There’s a lot a lot—a lot—going on in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie that hovers beneath the surface. Beyond its much-remarked general subversiveness, the film is a rarity in that its published reviews, even those that dutifully recount its “plot” and...
by Dartagnan
394 comments
on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 06:03 AM PDT
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I don’t watch movies. Action movies — don’t like them. Superheroes, comic book figures — no interest. Comedies often just embarrass me. I have enjoyed the occasional rom-com — do they still exist? It’s not so much that I dislike movies as that I’m...
by this is only a test
218 comments
on Mon Jul 31, 2023 at 05:43 AM PDT
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This from NALIP: National Association of Latino Independent Producers (via email): Rep. Joaquin Castro wants your nominations for Latino films to add to National Film Registry! Congressman Castro and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are...
by senorjoel
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on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 04:28 PM PDT
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This is a movie showing the NYC skyline from around Fulton St. down to Battery Park filmed on May 10, 1903. Those of us either living in or visiting the NYC area won't see most of these buildings anymore. Now you see their piers sticking up out of the...
by LapDog
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 04:46 AM PDT
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I was sad to see the news that Alan Arkin has walked on. He was 89. I remember the thrill of seeing him at the Ralph’s Market on Ventura Blvd from time to time in the San Fernando Valley doing his own grocery shopping. He was a remarkable character...
by 714day
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on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 01:52 PM PDT
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Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction. By Peter Hong , for� Capital & Main Amy Ziering is a documentary filmmaker whose intention is to inspire ...
by Capital and Main
9 comments
on Sun Jul 02, 2023 at 08:29 AM PDT
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For the most part I think that I do a pretty good job in keeping apart a performer and his politics. There is only two actors I refuse to watch because of their political and anti-Jewish or anti-gay views and that is Mel Gibson and John Wayne. I refuse...
by CameronProf
143 comments
on Fri May 26, 2023 at 07:31 PM PDT
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I am a mostly 80s child. with some 70s thrown in. But no other movie does the best job of summarizing up my High School years as does “The Breakfast Club” I remember when the movie came out and I saw it over 30 plus years ago and it touched me like no...
by CameronProf
163 comments
on Wed May 24, 2023 at 06:49 PM PDT
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Oy...at least it is not the 1970s when too many movies and shows focused on the mafia. I just never could get into any that I saw, from 1 whole film on the family, or a network cable series. My dislike started while watching the formulaic drama shows...
by CameronProf
76 comments
on Wed May 10, 2023 at 09:25 PM PDT
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Hiya, writers an’ frenz, some updates re-edited in: From The19th (named for the amendment to the constitution) economy reporter Chabeli Carranza examines how the writers’ strike could determine the future of women, people of color and LGBTQ+ writers in...
by mettle fatigue
101 comments
on Thu May 18, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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