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@Jacob_deNobel Original review from Variety in 1977: chief antagonist Peter Cushing is the would-be ruler of the universe. One of his "key aides" is the armored character played by David Prowse

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@murderxbryan Slavery was very controversial in the 1780s. It was not universally accepted. It was an issue at the constitutional convention. John Adams, the second US president, was opposed to slavery. This moral relativism argument to absolve Jefferson is historically inaccurate

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Of note that this is extremely easy to do in the case of Trump / Kushner

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BARTIROMO: Have you been able to identify specific policy decisions Joe Biden made that he was paid for? NANCY MACE: I have not had the ability to research that

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@BenjaminCrew1 They covered all men. Horses, guitar serenades, and karate caused me no shame. But the movie fact-dropping, Duolingo, and the Rob Brydon cameo… hit close to home.

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@Seamus_Malek Salma Hayek is Lebanese - perhaps not Persian, but she is middle eastern

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@jonathanmb32 It’s underappreciated how much Tarantino is obsessed with the Oscars. He brings it up in almost every interview. People might miss this because of his edgelord persona, but that makes it funnier how Oscar-mad he is

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@CoppolaUpdates The age gap is a huge part - probably the biggest part - of what makes the relationship in this movie interesting Imagine the same story with two 25-year old actors. That’s an unremarkable romcom

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@PopulismUpdates Full text of this tweet seems to refer to the United States as ‘the Gay Empire’

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@ChrisMurphyCT And they ran on keeping consumer prices down!

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@shadihamid Unsure about this reasoning… Trump displayed an enormous capacity to be humiliated by foreign leaders during his first term

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@cacmrg Boyz in the Hood was when I realized what a great actor he is. One of the indelible father figures on screen, up there with Atticus Finch

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@TheAlexSylvian It is funny how in the depiction of Belfort’s autobiography, Belfort is portrayed as an Adonis to the nebbish co-conspirator he tried sending to jail, played by Jonah Hill. Look at the guys in real life and it’s more like the opposite

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@BrndnStrssng We need more actors who are real middle aged men, not arrested development types like Cruise, Pitt, or Leo. We lost major ones with Gandolfini and Phil Hoffman. Some good ones left include Paul Giamatti and Bill Camp

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@Abisai_F @Seamus_Malek So is Carlos Slim, so is Damian Bechir. There are maybe as many as 2 million Lebanese diasporans in Mexico. They have hugely influenced Mexican society and culture, similar to Italian-Americans etc

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@MiddleEastTakes Uganda, 84% Christian nation, joins caliphate

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@BalkanmemesTr Most famous Turk

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@jessehawken No ambiguity allowed, need every plot beat explained to the audience like it’s an episode from a Seth MacFarlane show

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@theoceanblooms Martin Scorsese has directed 10 Oscar nominated performances by women

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@jeramy_steve @PopulismUpdates It’s not the old Ottoman Empire boundaries, it’s regions that speak Turkic languages (quite different territory)

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@PopulismUpdates Like this one

The Failed Coup Plotters Yearning for the German Reich

A mishmash of conspiracy theories and imperial nostalgia has found purchase with the country’s far-right factions.

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@EricColumbus The implication in that last quote that Saudi royalty are “terrorists” might be of interest to the Trump movement’s patrons

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@ViceApologist Come on, how could you leave out

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@MiddleEastTakes Egypt and Iran, famously comrades

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@boriskarkov From my favorite Kurosawa film, Tokyo Story

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@PopulismUpdates They shrink what Gaddafi grows

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@movieboy69 Roma is such a “baby’s first” for Cuaron, need maturity to prepare for Harry Potter and Little Princess

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@UlyssesVentura @Jacob_deNobel Cushing didn’t play the emperor - he played Tarkin, who was indeed the chief antagonist of the original Star Wars movie. Darth Vader was a mere sidekick to Cushing in that film

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@thatsmrsnyder @Ruby_Stevens @zhandlen Paul Thomas Anderson too, with Philip Baker Hall in particular

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@realJaredGilman I could certainly understand an objection to Tarkovsky as too slow and boring for someone’s taste. But they are talking about Scorsese here? The guy who makes entire movies edited and paced like trailers

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@PopulismUpdates Vivek would be Patient X

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@PopulismUpdates Gaddafi

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@JackTindale Brits as Americans see them / Brits as Euros see them

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@TheAlexSylvian Really odd aspect of this movie is Billy’s negative energy. He has no joy in his profession, more as a burden than a vocation. Gives the movie a downer vibe even when they’re winning. Unsure if I like this, but it’s very different from how most movies would approach the material

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@TheAlexSylvian Scorsese loathes him, but Leo loves him

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@MazMHussain I think it makes more sense to view it as a postcolonial war. There are similarities to situations like India-Pakistan and Armenia-Azerbaijan. This is a conflict between indigenous groups in the wake of a territorial partition plan left behind by departing empires (Ottoman, UK)

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@JohnDiLillo @Joe_Alouder I’d be unhappy if I were the real Thomas. In the doc this movie is based on, Jaiyah is immediately his favorite player and he works only to elevate her presence in the team

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@MiddleEastTakes Lebanon, Israel, Ethiopia, and Eritrea are proud to formally join the Islamic world. Pakistan and Indonesia look on in envy as the criteria changed from a majority Muslim population to speaking a Semitic language

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@TheTumboy How did he get passed the first season if he can’t watch episodes without Logan Roy… ?

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@Seamus_Malek Salma is surely closer to the western stereotype of Iranians than the cast of Iran's most famous recent movie would be

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@BeijingPalmer We need to stop calling it “the Union” and start calling it “the U.S.” in all contexts. Makes it clear which flag was which.

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@anneapplebaum NATO still hasn’t expanded to any of the actual former Soviet Union. People forget that the Baltic states were never recognized as a legitimate part of the USSR, since they were illegally annexed

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@FurstvonWrede Great thing about Urquhart - and the reason he's plausible - is that no one suspected him of nefarious schemes. Everyone trusted him, an avuncular safe pair of hands. The Spacey character is a moustache twirling creep. Why would other powerful people give him responsibilitites?

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@ViceApologist Movies about Napoleon and Ferrari are much more commercial on paper than Oppenheimer

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@JonnElledge I’m confused… how was he in a credible position to give a tour if he didn’t know what Whitechapel looks like

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@MelissaAGarriga What do you think is going to happen to the Ukrainian people when their resistance to an invading army weakens ? Sincere question for you

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@JohnDiLillo Similar is the separate page for awards won

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@TheAlexSylvian "I was the king of Wall Street, I promise. The guys I ratted out who now hate me, they were a bunch of ethnic stereotype nerds that I carried in social situations. It's only from my generosity that they ever got laid. And I'm not 5'7, I promise"

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@LazlosGhost Logan and Roman seem like sincere right-wingers, Kendall and Shiv are would-be lefties who rationalize and rationalize. But the most apathetic is the one who wins, Tom. Maybe there’s a lesson there?

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@LazlosGhost Pretty sure that Taika is simply plagiarizing this anecdote from Conan O’Brien and Albert Brooks. It’s actually an interesting message as they tell it.

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@nikicaga Want to add that the claim Bobby is owed secret service protection is absurd. They only protect the nominees of major parties and only in the weeks leading up to an election. You can just call yourself a candidate a year and a half away and get elite full time taxpayer bodyguards

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@Srirachachau He’s a bit like Colin Farrell - still good enough when playing Americans or Brits, but a whole different level of charismatic and interesting when he actually gets to play his own nationality and native accent

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@FrenchHist Please keep away from Emiliano Martinez

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@prchovanec “Trump was right about NATO…” his first example. No, Trump is calling to leave NATO and discard our alliance with the world’s largest economy, the EU, in favor of Russia The 2% GDP spending commitment people attribute to Trump was created in 2014… during the Obama presidency

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@svdate Trump also greenlit GCC blockade of Qatar and Turkish invasion of Syria. His Sudan-Israel deal led to the Sudanese civil war, and his efforts to snuff out Palestinian statehood contributed to the Gaza war. His possible reelection is the main Russia haven’t settled over Ukraine

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@JohnDiLillo Worst of these choices was Janney over Metcalf

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@hannahluci @EngelsbergIdeas The basis of the Calormenes on the Ottomans always seemed a bit prejudicial to me, as they are described as a nefarious kingdom Notably, the actor who plays Edmund (and eats Turkish delight) in the 2005 film is part Turkish

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@mkraju @NickyGRobertson So strange to see actual US Senators speak of this only through the prism of horse race punditry. Does this matter only as it impacts polling? And do elected leaders have no agency, even towards that narrow end alone?

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@PopulismUpdates "In the future, everyone will be prime minister for 15 minutes" - Andy Warhol

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@firagawalkwthme Friedrich fan ?

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@JoePostingg Reverse Virginia

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@jonathanmb32 Interesting that the two have arguable rehabilitated the formerly maligned “cradle to grave” approach that was mocked by Walk Hard. For a long stretch, these films took would instead depict short chapters in the subject’s career (Lincoln, Darkest Hour)

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@LazlosGhost They like art to pander, flatter their vanities, authorize their attitudes, preserve them from exposure to anything that is not a positivist jamboree with the pacifying succor of pert little morals—so many readymades—lying in store

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@nocontextfooty Kevin is correct. Understandable too that he knows African fauna - his mother was born in Burundi and lived in other African countries too

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@PopulismUpdates I found this graphic at the Swiss national museum in Zurich

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@jeremysmiles @ByYourLogic It’s funny to me that the only ones who made it to the A-list are the exact three Americans in the cast: Dinklage, Momoa, Pascal

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@ArmandDoma Right down to the clothing, this is a near-identical recreation of Boris Johnson’s greatest sporting moment

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@SiestaSocialist Pope Benedict was very pro Palestine. He was quite politically active on the issue. They even created a special Palestinian passport and made him the honorary first recipient

In Bethlehem, Pope Benedict XVI makes strongest call yet for a Palestinian homeland

Pontiff offers his 'solidarity' to Palestinians of Gaza and urges removal of Israeli blockade

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@lunarpita @Jacob_deNobel Yes, accurate. Point simply that people forget the 1977 dynamic

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@mattyglesias I read the whole piece, and find it odd it never mentions the biggest problem with the ‘influence peddling’ charge - that the GOP’s own likely nominee is quite clearly guilty of much worse in that regard

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@jessehawken I appreciated how there was no exoticizing at all in these scenes. These are dads who go to church, enjoy sports, fought for the US in wars, probably would vote for John McCain. All they want is some basic support from the people who claim to protect them

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@NotyepElad @Thatoneguy64 Especially noteworthy considering his films have not gotten an actor even a single Oscar nomination, either. The lure of Oscar gold was always a selling point for stars to work for Woody Allen or David O. Russell at discount. Wes's movies don't even release in award season

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@rhaplord The desire to balkanize this aggressively indicates a belief that pluralism is impossible and a complete disregard for minorities living within the engineered majority zones

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@NickTagliaferro Drugs have been more widely legalized in north America than they have been in Europe

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@filipefurtado Knowing this would require her to watch, or even acknowledge, movies that are not American. Don't hold your breath

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@TerribleMaps Most people from the Northeast seem to consider Connecticut on par with New York and ahead of New Jersey. Some even argue better than New York

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@joshtenet Decent movie, well made, but simply reiterates the very, very familiar tropes about the First World War. Doesn’t add anything essential to a canon that includes Grand Illusion and Paths of Glory, among other indelible films

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@PopulismUpdates She looks very little

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@intothecrevasse I’m fascinated by this question but have a hard time thinking of examples. Surely something in Licorice Pizza, Oppenheimer, an Ostlund movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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@RickSteves GOLF BAR COCKTAILS VERY STRONG We Do Not Check ID Card & Restaurant

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@lijukic What did the Greeks know that we’ve forgotten

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@metaplexmovies More similar to what Netflix gave Scorsese and Cuaron

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@worldofreel "Solely"... ?

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@LukewSavage Confucius Institute, it’s a real controversy (Not a DeSantis fan at all, but this has been a big thing in higher ed across the west)

China's Confucius Institutes may face German restrictions

German politicians want to see "clear limits" when it comes to China's influence on universities in Germany. But so far, the call has gone unheeded.

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@MazMHussain Yes, the idea that Israelis are strangers to the Middle East I think is a big roadblock to healthier and more accurate discourse around these issues.

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@StyledApe "We predicted" ... the gall!

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@arvofart Two of my three favorite movies fit this. Barry Lyndon and The Graduate

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@jessehawken He also doesn’t write these scripts (re the complaint that he can’t “write female characters”)

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@BenjaminCrew1 She was very good in Causeway last year too. And that was from her production house. Glad to have her back and following these solid instincts

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@atrupar Love that she's saying this with the positive stock projections right there on the screen below