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What Are You Going to Do About It?

In some of my articles, I have spoken about a streaming platform called LOOR.TV. I thought I would talk about this new platform as most people would not have heard about it. Apart from the Daily Wire, LOOR is another streaming platform that hopes to take on Hollywood and

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How Walt Disney Conquered the World

Ben McCann Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide mercatornet.com On October 16 1923, brothers Walt and Roy set up a modest cartoon studio. Their goal was to produce short animated films. They created a new character: a mouse, with large ears. Named “Mickey”, he soon

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Are There Really ‘Cursed’ Movies?

Are There Really ‘Cursed’ Movies?

Is there such a thing as a cursed movie? Actors, tending to be as superstitious as they are ignorant, apparently like to think so. After all, these are the sort of ninnies who not only refuse to whistle backstage, but can’t bring themselves to say ‘Macbeth’, or ‘break a

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The True Moral of the Neverending Story

The True Moral of the Neverending Story

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org When I was seven, my class was taken to an auditorium in our elementary school. There was a projector in the room, and we packed in on the floor, criss-cross

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Disney Wants to ‘Quiet the Noise’

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.

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Not the Moral Lessons the Movies Intended

Not the Moral Lessons the Movies Intended

In his excellent memoir-cum-how-to book on indie film-making, Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Films fame had strong words for his critics. Responding to sneers that his movies had no moral value, Kaufman agreed – and that that was the point. So what, he said, if Bloodsucking Freaks had no moral value? It

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Time for a Superhero with Down’s Syndrome?

Time for a Superhero with Down’s Syndrome?

righttolife.org.uk Tommy Jessop, an actor with Down’s syndrome known for his role in the prime time BBC drama, Line of Duty, has petitioned Hollywood to make a new superhero film starring an actor with Down’s syndrome. A BBC documentary released last month follows brothers Tommy and

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The A-Bomb of Our Time

The A-Bomb of Our Time

L Matthew Meyers L Matthew Myers is a data-driven financial, media, and policy analyst. His work has appeared in over 20 major publications, and he has published extensively on toxicology, health sciences, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. brownstone.org Oppenheimer is an epic film, and an extraordinary cinematic achievement. Writer-Director Christopher Nolan’

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River of Freedom Premieres September 5

River of Freedom Premieres September 5

dailytelegraph.co.nz New Zealand film RIVER OF FREEDOM is set to release next month, with film premiere events in Auckland on September 5th at The Civic, Christchurch on September 6th at Hoyts Riccarton, and Wellington on September 7th at The Embassy. Following the premieres, New Zealand audiences will have

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Dreadful ‘Fascist’ Barbie Dominates the Cinema

Tim Graham Tim Graham is the Executive Editor at NewsBusters, and he is the Director of  Media Analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. PA Pundits – International

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How the Soviets Stole Nuclear Secrets and Targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’

How the Soviets Stole Nuclear Secrets and Targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’

Calder Walton Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School “Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’

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Barbie Is Stunning in Stilettos but Could She Ever Be a Mother?

Barbie Is Stunning in Stilettos but Could She Ever Be a Mother?

Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. One of the brightest moments of my young life was when I got TWO Barbies (one blonde, one brunette) for Christmas. So on wings of nostalgia but feeling undercurrents of dread, I set

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Actors Don’t Want to Be Replaced by AI

Dominic Lees Associate Professor in Filmmaking University of Reading Film and television actors in the US came out on strike on July 14, causing Hollywood productions to shut down. The action has also had an impact on US films shooting in the UK: director Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 has

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Harry’s Film on Hunter Nominated for Award

Harry’s Film on Hunter Nominated for Award

Simon Black Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more opportunity, and more

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