Posts by Kim Browne
Berlinale Chief Tricia Tuttle on Championing Indie Movies While Navigating the Festival’s Political Storm: ‘We’re Like a Lightning Rod for Controversy’
Two days after Rupert Grint’s candid, and possibly sarcastic, declaration — “Obviously I’m against (fascism)” — reverberated across Potsdamer Platz and became a meme, Berlin Film Festival chief Tricia Tuttle is still cracking up. Midway through her second edition at the helm of the Berlinale, the combattive festival director wastes no time addressing the political…
Read MoreMAGA Congressman Makes Sick Post About Muslims Just Before Ramadan
“This effort aims to meet the growing demand for bedspace and streamline the detention and removal process, focusing on non-traditional facilities built specifically to support ICE’s needs,” the memo said. “This model includes the acquisition and renovation of eight large-scale detention centers and 16 processing sites, as well as the acquisition of 10 existing ‘turnkey’…
Read More‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Sets Paramount+ Streaming Release Date
After a stint on the big screen, SpongeBob SquarePants is heading back to the small screen. Paramount+ announced that “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” will make its streaming premiere on the service Feb. 17, bringing the beloved animated franchise’s latest theatrical adventure to subscribers. The film marks the fourth theatrical outing for the iconic…
Read MoreJohn Fetterman Bends Reality in Desperate Attempt to Defend Trump
“This effort aims to meet the growing demand for bedspace and streamline the detention and removal process, focusing on non-traditional facilities built specifically to support ICE’s needs,” the memo said. “This model includes the acquisition and renovation of eight large-scale detention centers and 16 processing sites, as well as the acquisition of 10 existing ‘turnkey’…
Read MoreNewport Beach to Honor Jennifer Saunders at U.K. and Ireland Honors Event (EXCLUSIVE)
The Newport Beach Film Festival has revealed the names to be honored in this year’s Icon and Artists of Distinction categories ahead of next week’s U.K. and Ireland Honors event, hosted by Nick Mohammed and Edith Bowman. This year, the Icon Award will be presented to comedian and actor Jennifer Saunders. The Icon Award is…
Read MoreLars Eidinger Wanted Isabelle Huppert’s Vampire Role in ‘The Blood Countess’: But ‘It Turned Out I Was the Vampire’s Therapist!’
Lars Eidinger has still gotten over the fact that he didn’t get to play a vampire in “The Blood Countess,” starring Isabelle Huppert and directed by celebrated German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. During the press conference for the movie at the Berlin Film Festival hours before its world premiere, Eidinger revealed that when Ottinger came to…
Read MoreIndonesian Horror Prequel ‘Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino’ Lands Worldwide Deal With EST N8 (EXCLUSIVE)
International sales and production company EST N8 has acquired worldwide rights to “Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino the Prequel,” a supernatural horror feature from Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel and MD Pictures. The deal was revealed at Berlin’s European Film Market. The deal, which excludes Indonesia and Taiwan with selective rights available in Southeast Asia, was negotiated…
Read MoreTareq Baconi’s Search for Liberation
And yet Baconi does not allow himself the pat comparison of likening his move to London—that is, his escape after coming out and realizing that he will not be able to become who he wants to be, should he stay—to forced migration. Mapping the twists and turns of his self-analysis, he writes: “It is easy…
Read MoreThe GOP Has Become a Single-Issue Party. The Issue Is Elite Impunity.
This dynamic is also apparent in the GOP’s slavish devotion to AI billionaires. The class divide on this topic is sharp—regular Americans are increasingly concerned about the potentially devastating impact of AI on their jobs and their kids’ economic prospects, and they sure as hell don’t want parasitic AI data centers raising their electricity prices…
Read MoreTrump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet
Trying to prevent or subvert or nullify an election, I would argue, is on another level. We’ve had presidents and other political leaders who tried to get their foes thrown in the clink. We’ve had loads of corrupt pols, though never anyone near Trump’s operatic scale. And we have, alas, treated a lot of people…
Read MoreYou Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid
Third, Ocasio-Cortez is not Sanders. Perhaps she has less appeal among older white voters and men than the Vermont senator. But it’s easy to imagine her running well ahead of him among Black, Latino, and women voters, particularly the younger people in those cohorts. She is charismatic in a way that the senator isn’t. Perhaps…
Read More‘Tehran’ Producer Dana Eden Dies Unexpectedly at 52 During Season 4 Shoot in Greece
“Tehran” producer Dana Eden has died during the Season 4 shoot of the hit Apple TV+ series in Greece. She was 52. No cause of death has been confirmed but Shula and Donna Productions, the production company Eden founded alongside fellow “Tehran” producer Shula Spiegel, has sought to dispel rumours that her death was politically…
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