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It is no secret that the Oscars are decided upon by a coastal cabal of predominantly old white men who dictate their emails. That’s why male vets, attractive young women, and sentimentalist fare like Green Book keep taking home the gold. The Academy that votes on the Oscars is also comprised of people in Hollywood who are total suckers for self-worship. In the last decade alone, three films celebrating Tinseltown have won Best Picture—including Argo, wherein an aging Hollywood producer joins forces with the CIA to rescue diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis. One industry that Hollywood has always viewed...

"The Chosen" actor Jonathan Roumie who plays Jesus With its sales now topping $8 million, the Christmas special for “The Chosen,” the first-ever multi-season television show about Jesus, has broken another record by becoming the bestselling movie in the history of its distributor Fathom Events.“Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers,” which features actors from “The Chosen” series, is the bestselling film for Fathom, the 11th largest distributor to movie theaters, since it was founded about 17 years ago.“We knew we had something special with this title,” Fathom Events CEO Ray Nutt said, according to Boxoffice Pro. “We are grateful for...

Click here to view the full articleForget James Bond’s gadgets, the supercars of “Fast and Furious” or “Dune”’s stunning landscapes — when it comes to box office smash hits, China’s Communist Party has nailed it this year. “The Battle at Lake Changjin,” a 176-minute epic starring Chinese actor Wu Jing, isn’t only the highest-grossing film worldwide so far in 2021 but has become China’s biggest film ever — toppling 2017’s “Wolf Warrior 2,” which also stars Wu — according to ticketing platform Maoyan Entertainment. The movie was commissioned by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, otherwise known...

The director of a new documentary focused on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign says his film confronts the personal toll running for president takes on White House hopefuls. “What is it like to be a human being and undertake this?” is the central question in “Mayor Pete,” Jesse Moss says. The documentary — filmed over the course of the former South Bend, Ind., mayor’s campaign — premieres on Amazon Prime on Friday.

Pope Leo XIII was born in 1810. At that time James Madison was president of the United States and Napoleon was master of Europe. This remarkable film was shot in 1896.

"FPA founder and artistic director Max McLean stars as middle-aged Lewis recalling events that began his journey from vigorous debunker of Christianity to one of the most influential Christian writers of the past century. The film is based on the play C.S. Lewis on Stage: The Most Reluctant Convert that premiered in 2016. Play and film are both taken from Lewis’ memoir, Surprised by Joy, which is licensed from the C.S. Lewis Company. “When we began working on our distribution of the film, we had a handful of theatres, mostly in major markets, with one showing on one day on...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The union representing film and television crews says its 60,000 members will begin a nationwide strike on Monday if it does not reach a deal that satisfies demands for fair and safe working conditions. A strike would bring a halt to filming on a broad swath of film and television productions and extend well beyond Hollywood, affecting productions in Georgia, New Mexico and other North American shoots. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees International President Matthew Loeb said Wednesday that the strike would begin at 12:01 a.m. Monday unless an agreement is reached on rest and...

He directed 'Watermelon Man,' did everything on 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' and wrote a pair of Broadway musicals.Melvin Van Peebles, the pioneering African American auteur behind the 1970s films Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, has died. He was 89. Van Peebles, the father of actor-director Mario Van Peebles, died Tuesday night at his home in Manhattan. His family, The Criterion Collection and Janus Films announced his death in a statement. “In an unparalleled career distinguished by relentless innovation, boundless curiosity and spiritual empathy, Melvin Van Peebles made an indelible mark on the international cultural landscape through his films,...

A documentary about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his ultimately failed 2020 run for the presidency will premiere at the LGBTQ film festival NewFest. Variety reports Mayor Pete comes in the wake of the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s announcement earlier this month he and husband Chasten welcomed twins into their family.

Nominations are OPEN for Best Conservative Movie of 2021. Attn: movie fans, movie critics & innocent bystanders. The "nuke Hollywood from orbit" folks are also welcome. It's been a weird two years for movies, with a lot postponed due to COVID and the straight-to-streaming vs. theatrical release wars raging. But the festivals are coming back to life and people are trickling back into the theaters. Cannes, Venice, and Telluride are done, and TIFF is unspooling now. Most of the big titles have debuted at festivals and, while many haven't yet reached viewers, a flood of new films will drop before...

They planned to kill six million Germans - one for every Jewish life lost in the Holocaust - by poisoning the country's water supply. Now a film is set to show how the renegade revenge squad came chillingly close to succeeding, writes MARGARETTE DRISCOLL The Nokmim escaped through sewers from the Vilna Ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania Renegade revenge squad hatched an audacious plan to kill six million Germans They wanted to kill one for every Jewish life that was lost during the Holocaust Now, they are the inspiration for the thriller movie Plan A, released this weekend Amid the ruins...

Seven people in the crowds near Kabul airport died amid the chaos of those fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, bringing the total killed in the last week to 20. The MoD said in a statement on Sunday that "conditions on the ground remain extremely challenging but we are doing everything we can to manage the situation as safely and securely as possible".SnipOn Saturday, Sky News watched as UK paratroopers began pulling people from the mayhem before medics checked vital signs of those left on the floor after a crush and then covered bodies in white sheets. Sky Chief Correspondent...

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Network: the last great film about The News When a new epidemic is launched and promoted, despite the lack of good science and good evidence, it is jacked up on television screens. Images begin to flow: An emergency medical vehicle on a street. EMT personnel, in hazmat suits, load a man strapped down to a stretcher, into the van. On another street, a man collapses on the sidewalk. We see a quarantined man sitting inside a huge plastic bubble on a third street. Cut to an airport lobby. Soldiers are patrolling the space among the crowds. Cut to a lab....

he 2021 Anthem Film Festival — the annual screening of the latest libertarian films and documentaries — will be held in the shadow of Mount Rushmore in Rapid City, South Dakota, July 21-24, 2021. It is part of the larger FreedomFest event. You may purchase registration here. The festival is currently seeking libertarian films for its 2021 event. “We seek movies and documentaries about self-reliance, innovation, entrepreneurship, individual rights, and the triumph of persuasion over force. Libertarian films often point out the unintended consequences of government intervention, but they’re just as likely to be about a protagonist’s personal struggle for...

Director Lee Isaac Chung's heartwarming "Minari" is already a Golden Globe-winning film, and it has six chances to become an Oscar-winning one as well. The film, which consists of a small but endearing cast, follows a Korean-American family as they start a new life on an Arkansas farm. The film, Chung recently explained to Townhall, is semi-autobiographical. He grew up in the South and, as a Korean-American, he said that Christianity has always been a major part of his life. As such, he wanted to make sure he included a touch of spirituality in the film. "I still come back...

Winners notwithstanding, the obvious shortcomings of the 78th annual Golden Globes on-screen last night were reflected in the ratings for the NBC broadcast ceremony today. Though the Comcast-owned network doesn’t plan to release final numbers from Nielsen until tomorrow, semi-adjusted fast nationals reveal the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bicoastal hosted show took a hit from last year. A big hit. And we don’t just mean the worthy whack the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been taking from some of Tinseltown’s heaviest hitters over the 87-member group’s total lack of Black members. Coming in with a 1.2 rating among adults...

...The Globes, normally a loose-and-boozy party that serves as the kickoff for Hollywood’s awards season, has been beset with problems...They include a revelation in the Los Angeles Times that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the awards, has no Black voting members in the group. ...the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times reported that the HFPA’s membership of 87 journalists includes no Black voters

Flickering candlelight, brushed fingertips, a longing gaze... such are the petticoat ways of the historical lesbian romance. Mona Fastvold's feverish frontier drama The World to Come, out today, becomes the latest entry in that burgeoning genre — a love story of deep and delicate feeling if not strict originality....

The book was missing! The directors was certain it was on his desk when he went home that night but it completely vanished! In a Christian camp no less, two days 200 kids would show up, and there were only 6 persons who could be suspects: the life guard, nurse, the coach, the cook, the secretary and the groundskeeper. Moreover, there was one piece of evidence as a clue to who the guilty party was, and that was a broken carrot. The directors book - "How to become a Christian?" - was considered essential for the coming camp event And...