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If Highschool Didn't Already Have Enough EVIL In It! "Homework" reviewed! (Unearthed Films / Blu-ray)

Purchase “Homework” Blu-ray Here! Highschooler Tommy can’t take it anymore.  His friends all talk about their sexual experiences and he’s still a virgin.  Talking to a therapist to help redirect his sexual energy into something else, Tommy becomes inspired with the idea to form a rock band with best friend Ralph.  The eager students secure three classmates from the student body to round out the…

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I libri nominati da Rory Gilmore

1 – 1984, George Orwell

2 – Le Avventure di Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain

3 – Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carrol

4 – Le Fantastiche Avventure di Kavalier e Clay, Michael Chabon

5 – Una Tragedia Americana, Theodore Dreiser

6 – Le Ceneri di Angela, Frank McCourt

7 – Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoj

8 – Il Diario di Anna Frank

9 – La Guerra Archidamica, Donald Kagan

10 – L’Arte del Romanzo, Henry James

11 – L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu

12 – Mentre Morivo, William Faulkner

13 – Espiazione, Ian McEvan

14 – Autobiografia di un Volto, Lucy Grealy

15 – Il Risveglio, Kate Chopin

16 – Babe, Dick King-Smith

17 – Contrattacco. La Guerra non Dichiarata Contro le Donne, Susan Faludi

18 – Balzac e la Piccola Sarta Cinese, Dai Sijie

19 – Bel Canto, Anne Pachett

20 – La Campana di Vetro, Sylvia Plath

21 – Amatissima, Toni Morrison

22 – Beowulf: una Nuova Traduzione, Seamus Heaney

23 – La Bhagavad Gita

24 – Il Piccolo Villaggio dei Sopravvissuti, Peter Duffy

25 – Bitch Rules. Consigli di Comune Buonsenso per donne Fuori dal Comune, Elizabeth Wurtzel

26 – Un Fulmine a Ciel Sereno ed altri Saggi, Mary McCarthy

27 – Il Mondo Nuovo, Adolf Huxley

28 – Brick Lane, Monica Ali

29 – Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner

30 – Candido, Voltaire

31 – I Racconti di Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer

32 – Carrie, Stephen King

33 – Catch-22, Joseph Heller

34 – Il Giovane Holden, J.D.Salinger

35 – La Tela di Carlotta, E.B.White

36 – Quelle Due, Lillian Hellman

37 – Christine, Stephen King

38 – Il Canto di Natale, Charles Dickens

39 – Arancia Meccanica, Anthony Burgess

40 – Il Codice dei Wooster, P.G.Wodehouse

41 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty

42 – La Commedia degli Errori, William Shakespeare

43 – Novelle, Dawn Powell

44 – Tutte le Poesie, Anne Sexton

45 – Racconti, Dorothy Parker

46 – Una Banda di Idioti, John Kennedy Toole

47 – Il03 al 09/03 Conte di Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas

48 – La Cugina Bette, Honore de Balzac

49 – Delitto e Castigo, Fedor Dostoevskij

50 – Il Petalo Cremisi e il Bianco, Michel Faber

51 – Il Crogiuolo, Arthur Miller

52 – Cujo, Stephen King

53 – Il Curioso Caso del Cane Ucciso a Mezzanotte, Mark Haddon

54 – La Figlia della Fortuna, Isabel Allende

55 – David e Lisa, Dr.Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56 – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

57 – Il Codice Da Vinci, Dan Brown

58 – Le Anime Morte, Nikolaj Gogol

59 – I Demoni, Fedor Dostoevskij

60 – Morte di un Commesso Viaggiatore, Arthur Miller

61 – Deenie, Judy Blume

62 – La Città Bianca e il Diavolo, Erik Larson

63 – The Dirt. Confessioni della Band più Oltraggiosa del Rock, Tommy Lee – Vince Neil – Mick Mars – Nikki Sixx

64 – La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri

65 – I Sublimi Segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecca Wells

66 – Don Chischiotte, Miguel de Cervantes

67 – A Spasso con Daisy, Alfred Uhvr

68 – Dr. Jeckill e Mr.Hide, Robert Louis Stevenson

69 – Tutti i Racconti e le Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

70 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook

71 – Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

72 – Lettere, Mark Dunn

73 – Eloise, Kay Thompson

74 – Emily The Strange, Roger Reger

75 – Emma, Jane Austen

76 – Il Declino dell’Impero Whiting, Richard Russo

77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective, Donald J.Sobol

78 – Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

79 – Etica, Spinoza

80 – Europe Through the back door, 2003, Rick Steves

81 – Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

82 – Ogni cosa è Illuminata, Jonathan Safran Foer

83 – Stravaganza, Gary Krist

84 – Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

85 – Farhenheit 9/11, Michael Moore

86 – La Caduta dell’Impero di Atene, Donald Kagan

87 – Fat Land, il Paese dei Ciccioni, Greg Critser

88 – Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, Hunter S.Thompson

89 – La Compagnia dell’Anello, J.R.R.Tolkien

90 – Il Violinista sul Tetto, Joseph Stein

91 – Le Cinque Persone che Incontri in Cielo, Mitch Albom

92 – Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce

93 – Fletch, Gregory McDonald

94 – Fiori per Algernon, Daniel Keyes

95 – La Fortezza della Solitudine, Jonathan Lethem

96 – La Fonte Meravigliosa, Ayn Rand

97 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

98 – Franny e Zooeey, J.D.Salinger

99 – Quel Pazzo Venerdì, Mary Rodgers

100 – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut

101 – Questioni di Genere, Judith Butler

102 – George W.Bushism: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President, Jacob Weisberg

103 – Gidget, Fredrick Kohner

104 – Ragazze Interrotte, Susanna Kaysen

105 – The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

106 – Il Padrino, Parte I, Mario Puzo

107 – Il Dio delle Piccole Cose, Arundhati Roy

108 – La Storia dei Tre Orsi, Alvin Granowsky

109 – Via Col Vento, Margaret Mitchell

110 – Il Buon Soldato, Ford Maddox Ford

111 – Il Gospel secondo Judy Bloom

112 – Il Laureato, Charles Webb

113 – Furore, John Steinbeck

114 – Il Grande Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald

115 – Grandi Speranze, Charles Dickens

116 – Il Gruppo, Mary McCarthy

117 – Amleto, William Shakespeare

118 – Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, J.K.Rowling

119 – Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale, J.K.Rowling

120 – L’Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio, Dave Eggers

121 – Cuore di Tenebra, Joseph Conrad

122 – Helter Skelter: La vera storia del Caso Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry

123 – Enrico IV, Parte Prima, William Shakespeare

124 – Enrico IV, Parte Seconda, William Shakespeare

125 – Enrico V, William Shakespeare

126 – Alta Fedeltà, Nick Hornby

127 – La Storia del Declino e della Caduta dell’Impero Romano, Edward Gibbon

128 – Holidays on Ice: Storie, David Sedaris

129 – The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton

130 – La Casa di Sabbia e Nebbia, Andre Dubus III

131 – La Casa degli Spiriti, Isabel Allende

132 – Come Respirare Sott’acqua, Julie Orringer

133 – Come il Grinch Rubò il Natale, Dr.Seuss

134 – How the Light Gets In, M.J.Hyland

135 – Urlo, Allen Ginsberg

136 – Il Gobbo di Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

137 – Iliade, Omero

138 – Sono con la Band, Pamela des Barres

139 – A Sangue Freddo, Truman Capote

140 – Inferno, Dante

141 – …e l’Uomo Creò Satana, Jerome Lawrence e Robert E.Lee

142 – Ironweed, William J.Kennedy

143 – It takes a Village, Hilary Clinton

144 – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

145 – Il Circolo della Fortuna e della Felicità, Amy tan

146 – Giulio Cesare, William Shakespeare

147 – Il Celebre Ranocchio Saltatore della Contea di Calaveras, Mark Twain

148 – La Giungla, Upton Sinclair

149 – Just a Couple of Days, Tony Vigorito

150 – The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander

151 – Kitchen Confidential: Avventure Gastronomiche a New York, Anthony Bourdain

152 – Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni, Khaled Hosseini

153 – L’amante di Lady Chatterley, D.H.Lawrence

154 – L’Ultimo Impero: Saggi 1992-2000, Gore Vidal

155 – Foglie d’Erba, Walt Whitman

156 – La Leggenda di Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield

157 – Meno di Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

158 – Lettere a un Giovane Poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke

159 – Balle! E tutti i Ballisti che Ce Le Stanno Raccontando, Al Franken

160 – Vita di Pi, Yann Martell

161 – La piccola Dorrit, Charles Dickens

162 – The little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway

163 – La piccola fiammiferaia, Hans Christian Andersen

164 – Piccole Donne, Louisa May Alcott

165 – Living History, Hilary Clinton

166 – Il signore delle Mosche, William Golding

167 – La Lotteria, ed altre storie, Shirley Jackson

168 – Amabili Resti, Alice Sebold

169 – Love Story, Eric Segal

170 – Macbeth, William Shakespeare

171 – Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

172 – The Manticore, Robertson Davies

173 – Marathon Man, William Goldman

174 – Il Maestro e Margherita, Michail Bulgakov

175 – Memorie di una figlia per bene, Simone de Beauvoir

176 – Memorie del Generale W.T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman

177 – L’uomo più divertente del mondo, David Sedaris

178 – The meaning of Consuelo, Judith Ortiz Cofer

179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy, H.R. Mencken

180 – Le Allegre Comari di Windsor, William Shakespeare

181 – La Metamorfosi, Franz Kafka

182 – Middlesex, Jeoffrey Eugenides

183 – Anna dei Miracoli, William Gibson

184 – Moby Dick, Hermann Melville

185 – The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, Jim Irvin

186 – Moliere: la biografia, Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187 – A monetary history of the United States, Milton Friedman

188 – Monsieur Proust, Celeste Albaret

189 – A Month of Sundays: searching for the spirit and my sister, Julie Mars

190 – Festa Mobile, Ernest Hemingway

191 – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

192 – Gli ammutinati del Bounty, Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall

193 – My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Seymour M.Hersh

194 – My Life as Author and Editor, H.R.Mencken

195 – My life in orange: growing up with the guru, Tim Guest

196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978, Myra Waldo

197 – La custode di mia sorella, Jodi Picoult

198 – Il Nudo e il Morto, Norman Mailer

199 – Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco

200 – The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

201 – Il Diario di una Tata, Emma McLaughlin

202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing my Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen

203 – Nuove Poesie, Emily Dickinson

204 – The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay

205 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

206 – Notte, Elie Wiesel

207 – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, William E.Cain, Laurie A.Finke, Barbara E.Johnson, John P.McGowan

209 – Racconti 1930-1942, Dawn Powell

210 – Taccuino di un Vecchio Porco, Charles Bukowski

211 – Uomini e Topi, John Steinbeck

212 – Old School, Tobias Wolff

213 – Sulla Strada, Jack Kerouac

214 – Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cuculo, Ken Kesey

215 – Cent’Anni di Solitudine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216 – The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan

217 – La Notte dell’Oracolo, Paul Auster

218 – L’Ultimo degli Uomini, Margaret Atwood

219 – Otello, William Shakespeare

220 – Il Nostro Comune Amico, Charles Dickens

221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan

222 – La Mia Africa, Karen Blixen

223 – The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

224 – Passaggio in India, E.M.Forster

225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Donald Kagan

226 – Noi Siamo Infinito, Stephen Chbosky

227 – Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

228 – Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

229 – Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington

230 – Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

231 – Please Kill Me: Il Punk nelle Parole dei Suoi Protagonisti, Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain

232 – Una Vita da Lettore, Nick Hornby

233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker

234 – The Portable Nietzche, Fredrich Nietzche

235 – The Price of Loyalty: George W.Bush, the White House, and the Education on Paul O’Neil, Ron Suskind

236 – Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen

237 – Property, Valerie Martin

238 – Pushkin, La Biografia, T.J.Binyon

239 – Pigmallione, G.B.Shaw

240 – Quattrocento, James Mckean

241 – A Quiet Storm, Rachel Howzell Hall

242 – Rapunzel, I Fratelli Grimm

243 – Il Corvo ed Altre Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

244 – Il Filo del Rasoio, W.Somerset Maugham

245 – Leggere Lolita a Teheran, Azar Nafisi

246 – Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin

248 – The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

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Wonder Woman-done

No more Black Adam

Possibly no Cavill

“One part that the Gunn-Safran agenda seems likely not to touch, at least for now, is the Matt Reeves Batman universe in which Robert Pattinson dons the cowl of the Caped Crusader. Reeves is writing the sequel to The Batman, which opened in March 4. The filmmaker is also overseeing the launch of two Batman series that spin out of his movie, including The Penguin”

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De tous les dons du ciel c’est le cadeau du plus offrant.

Ma femme elle est trop belle regarde sa peau couleur safran.

[…]

Si le monde était beauté, tu vivrais sous son règne.

Son parfum est une ivresse qui te rend soûl l’ami,

Elle est classe comme une n*** et dangereuse comme un tsunami.

Indépendante est ma femme, l’intelligence incarnée.

C’est la reine de Saba, c’est Cléopâtre réincarnée.

Ma femme c’est de la foudre, l’orage, les cataclysmes.

C’est ta foi, ta religion, l’abjuration des hommes d’églises.

[…]

Elle est belle comme le pêché, une séquelle, un vrai scandale.

Je suis le prêtre avec les clefs du temple et je deviens vandale.

[…]

Comment Gaël Faye peut-il te décrire avec une telle précision ? C’est à se demander si il t’a déjà rencontré.

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These books are near and dear to me, each having an impact on who I am today in addition to just being excellent reads:

Classic Lit #1: Les Miserables, Abridged by Victor Hugo

Classic Lit #2: A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Postmodern Lit: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Sci-fi: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Childhood: The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw

Self-Help: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Drama: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Fantasy Series: Abhorsen by Garth Nix

Comedy: Don Quixote (Volumes 1 & 2) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Shakespeare: Hamlet

Gen Children’s Lit: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Fantasy #1: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Fantasy #2: The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem

Horror: Dracula by Bram Stoker

Play: Faustus by Goethe

Fairy Tale Retelling: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Fairy Tale Retelling Series: Pippington Tales by L. Palmer

I’m happy to explain why any of these are my favorites; just ask!

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Maï et Mouna - Béatrice CASTANER - 2024 - Serge Safran Ed.

Quatrième de Couverture Maï et Mouna, sont sœurs jumelles d’un père français et d’une mère burkinabé. Elles grandissent entre le Burkina Faso, l’année scolaire, et la France, l’été. Métisses elles sont, et on le leur fait remarquer, notamment à l’école. Leur mère est même traitée de sorcière car celle-ci, griotte, passe pour avoir des dons de guérisseuse. Les jumelles passent leurs vacances chez…

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MA PREMIÈRE SORTIE 

De manière un peu inattendue nous nous sommes retrouvées à trois à faire une sortie de Mattindia, mes compagnes d’échappé se nomment Claire et Jade, des françaises de Narbonne. Première fois pour moi que cette sortie en taxi vers le musée d’histoire du Kerala, une deuxième étape : le Palace Montains et un temple hindou Agasthia 

Yiddishs le taxi-man, parle bien l’anglais et connaît très bien sa région. Il nous sera un guide précieux, double fonction qu’occupent souvent les chauffeurs de taxi. 

Le musée qui finalement a surtout à montrer les divinités et un certain nombres d’accessoires.  Il a une curiosité au deuxième étage. ça ressemble un peu à la caverne d’Alibaba, le musée vend des pièces anciennes. 

Claire fond pour une Tara, la même que celle que j’ai dans ma chambre, en plus grande. Tara est la déesse de la compassion, elle représente le féminin de Shiva. Sans elle pas de Shiva. 

En nanas, deux heures se sont écoulées sans même s’en rendre nt compte. Le taxi patient nous attend. Au retour il nous signale quand même qu’on ne pourra visiter l’intérieur du palais qu’il faudra se contenter des jardins. 

Après ces deux heures confinées à l’intérieur, la visite des jardins nous convient parfaitement. 

Avec mes deux camarades nous sommes très vite trouvées, pas de chichis, généreuses, aimant l’échange « On était raccord » comme on dit. C’était très agréable. 

Une grande bâtisse blanche en haut d’une colline, de grands escaliers mènent au palais, les jardins sont de part et d’autres. De nombreuses familles indiennes sont là, elles se prennent en photo. A deux reprises je propose de prendre la photo. Une des familles nous la retrouverons au temple. 

Le palais est l’ancien centre administratif de Maharadjah. Maintenant il propose une collection de vêtements armes et bizarrement de vélos 

Un petit arrêt dans mon premier café indien et découvert ce qu’ils appellent le Chai, offert par Claire. 

Puis ce fut la traversée de la ville, dans ce que j’ai vu, le plus grand chaos circulatoire. De partout, ça surgit, ça frêne, ça débit bien sûr ça klaxonne. Je filmais ébahie c’était comme dans les films. 

A l’arrivée le guide nous prévient : c’est sans chaussures. Je rechigne on est sur un parking de terre et de pierres. Il est intraitable : non c’est comme ça. 

Les temples hindous de la région ne sont pas les beaux temples sculptés ou empilés des autres parties de l’Inde que l’on trouvera pas exemple en masse dans le Tamil Nadu. Ici c’est comme un énorme marché couvert décoré. 

Tout en ayant au cœur du lieu un vrai temple, sorte de maison chinoise et là c’est très beau. Mais n’étant pas hindou nous n’avons pas le droit d’y rentrer. Mais il y a une fenêtre ouverte où l’on voit les pièces qui se succèdent en enfilade pour arriver à la divinité Amma. Les pénitents femmes et hommes passent par des portes sculptées qui sont en or. Précision les hommes se présentent dans le temple torse nu. 

J’ai avec mes camarades pu allumer une mèche posée dans une petite coupelle d’huile avec une prière. Un homme est là qui veille au mur de lumière. On dirait un sage indien, grande barbe blanche, sari jaune safran. Le guide nous explique qu’il est sans bien été qu’il est nourri par les dons fait au temple. 

C’était un moment très fort pour nous trois. 

Autre curiosité : une énorme balance 

Je demande : à quoi ça sert ? 

Quand il y a une demande de guérison on se pose d’un côté de l’autre l’équivalent en riz, papaye, oranges… quand la balance trouve l’équilibre, l’offrande est prête.  Elle est remise au temple. 

Il y en aurait encore beaucoup à raconter sur cette escapade du jour mais justement le jour ici tombe et le dîner sera bientôt servi. 

Ce soir les tambours donnent du son. Il y la fête sur la rive en face. C’est un peu la brousse africaine. 

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Supergirl Soars in Summer 2026!

Okay DCU fans! Get ready for the Girl of Steel! "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" is soaring into theaters on June 26th, 2026, marking the second film from the all-new DC Studios led by James Gunn and Peter Safran. Mark your calendars, because this ain't your typical Supergirl story! This summer blockbuster is based on the 2022 comic book series of the same name. The series is written by comics writer Tom King and brought to life by artist Bilquis Evely. We're trading in the bright tights and cheery persona for a more hard-edged Supergirl, played by the talented Milly Alcock, who stole hearts in "House of the Dragon." Supergirl's Road to Release So, what makes this Supergirl different? According to James Gunn himself, it all boils down to upbringing. Unlike Superman, who landed on Earth as a baby and was raised by loving parents, Supergirl's experience was a lot tougher. Imagine growing up on a harsh alien world, witnessing death and destruction around you. Yeah, that'll put a different spin on things. Gunn describes this Supergirl as "hardcore" and a far cry from the cheery hero we're used to seeing. This grittier take on the character is sure to be a breath of fresh air for comic book fans. And with Milly Alcock in the lead role, we can expect a powerful and nuanced performance. Alcock will actually appear in another DC project before taking flight as Supergirl on the big screen, so keep an eye out for that! This isn't the first time Supergirl has graced the silver screen. Back in 1984, Helen Slater donned the cape for a more classic portrayal of the character. While that film has a certain nostalgia factor, "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" promises a bold new direction for the iconic heroine. This upcoming film marks the second project from the newly formed DC Studios. The first? A Superman movie directed by James Gunn himself, hitting theaters in July 2025. It's clear that Gunn and Safran have a vision for the DC Universe, and "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" is a big part of that. So, are you ready for a Supergirl who's seen the dark side? This promises to be an epic adventure that will redefine the Girl of Steel for a whole new generation. Mark your calendars and get ready to soar alongside Supergirl in June 2026! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxTfczQ-pGM Read the full article

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5.5 / 10

Título Original: Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom

Año: 2023

Duración: 124 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: James Wan

Guion: David Johnson. Personaje: Paul Norris, Mort Weisinger. Historia: James Wan, David Johnson, Jason Momoa, Thomas Pa'a Sibbett

Música: Rupert Gregson-Williams

Fotografía: Don Burgess

Reparto: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman

Productora: DC Entertainment, Warner Bros., Atomic Monster, The Safran Company. Distribuidora: Warner Bros.

Género: Action; Adventure; Fantasy

TRAILER:

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The Overdue but Perfect Response to the Outrage of the Minority

by Don Hall

It doesn’t seem to take much to uphold Charlie Cox’s good-guy reputation, and when Digital Spy asked Cox what he made of people getting upset over the “walk of shame” that Daredevil did the morning after having a really great night with She-Hulk, he said, very kindly, “If She-Hulk’s not your thing, then don’t watch it. Watch something else.”

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James Gunn has issued a statement addressing fan concerns over the direction of the DC Universe after the announcement of Henry Cavill’s exit as Superman and the harassment he and co-head Peter Safran have received online.

“One of the things Peter & I were aware of when we took the job as heads of DC Studios was a certain minority of people online that could be, well, uproarious & unkind, to say the least. Our choices for the DCU are based upon what we believe is best for the story & best for the DC characters who have been around for nearly 85 years. Perhaps these choices are great, perhaps not, but they are made with sincere hearts & integrity & always with the story in mind,” Gunn explained.

“No one loves to be harassed or called names — but, to be frank, we’ve been through significantly worse. Disrespectful outcry will never, ever affect our actions."

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The term minority tends to mean in the minds of most people non-white people. That's reasonable given how the word is used but it's also a misdirect. Minority is simply that part of any group that is a smaller section of the whole than the majority. Globally, we're all the minority in comparison to the Chinese population. Men, when it comes to college admissions, are in the minority in comparison to women. Both the extreme Left and Right politically are in the minority in comparison to Exhausted Center.

Based strictly on numbers, those who hate the MCU are in the minority as are those who use Twitter and have their toilet paper pull from under the roll. Bidet users? Minority. Vegans? Minority. People who bought one of those Trump NFTs? Stupid minority. And, you know, there's no "I" in stupid.

As much as the debacle of Kevin McCarthy struggling to become Speaker of the House was a pleasure to view, he was up against the outrage of the minority within his party.

From Yahoo News:

"With a narrowly divided chamber, 222-to-212, the new speaker has shown the far-right wing of his caucus that they can get their way through obstruction — a recipe for nonstop hostage-taking by small factions going forward.

The problem for Congress, however, is that McCarthy will probably have to continue prostrating himself in order to keep his new job. Why? Because in the process of winning their votes, he awarded his captors nearly every demand on their wishlist — empowering them to continue to obstruct business whenever it suits their purposes."

The conundrum lies in the fact that we love it when our minority voices obstruct their majority but can't seem to be able to stand it when their minority is afforded the same. We talk a lot about gridlock and a dysfunctional Congress but we have to grasp that the gridlock part of the equation is the very intent of the Constitutional framers. Laws that are easy to pass cannot possibly be pragmatic or enforceable to an entire country comprised of individuals maintaining their often false belief in their own autonomy. It's supposed to be contentious.

It is not supposed to be dysfunctional. Allowing the minority to make unreasoning demands and granting them time and time again creates dysfunction and really bad governance (regardless of which ideological yard you play in). Accepting petty, shallow, outraged behavior and capitulating to it encourages more of it resulting in an era where screaming and throwing a tantrum on a plane can result in the plane being rerouted and punishing the entire flight. Pretending that civil disobedience is simply destroying the counter of a Burger King because you did not, in fact, get to have it your way emboldens the childish tendency in all of us.

The balance lies in being able to distinguish the difference between a genuine issue and a tantrum. Here's a clue: if the minority is screaming and crying, claiming obvious distortions of harm and violence where there are none, destroying things to get attention, and behaving like an angry child? Tantrum.

When you reward the tantrums, you are guaranteed to be subjected to more tantrums. If you reasonably say "Disrespectful outcry will never, ever affect our actions," you set the stage for grownup discourse. Kevin McCarthy will wish he had not conceded to the tantrums of the minority in days to come.

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Henry Cavill's DCU Exit Opens Him Up For A Perfect MCU Role

Henry Cavill’s DCU Exit Opens Him Up For A Perfect MCU Role

Henry Cavill‘s exit from his DCU Superman role is the perfect opportunity for his MCU debut as a multiversal hero. Despite its ideal casting choices, comic-accurate costume designs, and potential-filled stories, Warner Bros.’ cinematic universe, the DCEU, will go through a major reboot under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rule. Therefore, Superman actor Henry Cavill will no longer don the cape in…

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BLACK ADAM Bust: The End of the DCEU Begins Here

Oh boy, where to start on all of this mess.

Way back when Black Adam finally started its approach to the big screen after a fifteen year gestation period, I told my friends who I chat movies with, “Just wait. If this doesn’t go well, dude will lash out on Twitter. It’s what he did with Baywatch. It’s what he’ll do here.”

Then the movie came and went. 

How’d it do?

Well, it got a whopping 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.1 And it made $384.8 Million worldwide. Not quite the numbers I’d assume DC wanted, even given COVID. I can’t imagine dropping it on VOD after a month helped either.

Undaunted, Dwayne continued to Tweet about his big plans for the DC Universe on film, saying on October 24th that he was looking forward to “building the DCEU from here”.

And then this week, it got weird.

Variety posted an article about the state of Black Adam’s box office on Monday. Per them…

Box office experts believe “Black Adam” will stall out with less than $400 million globally, which is problematic since movie theater owners get to keep around half of those sales. Now, the movie stands to lose $50 million to $100 million in its theatrical run, according to the estimates of insiders as well as rival executives with knowledge of similar productions.

Not a rosy situation for the flick, especially with the new creative heads of DC Studios — James Gunn (who guided the Guardian of the Galaxy franchise, the Peacemaker series, and the Suicide Squad sequel to success) and Peter Safran (producer of many films, including Shazam, which Dwayne Johnson was said to refuse to be a part of as Black Adam) — inserted at the end of October.

So today, industry site Deadline got some weird looks for posting this decidedly more optimistic take:

There’s some snarking going on out there that Black Adam is poised to lose $50M-$100M, and that is simply just not true. Deadline film finance sources, meaning people who do this for a living and those close to the film, say this movie is bound to break even and be in the black.

Dwayne Johnson even took to Twitter himself about it, saying…

Waited to confirm with financiers before I shared this excellent Black Adam news – our film will PROFIT between $52M-$72M. Fact. At almost $400M worldwide we are building our new franchise step by step (first Captain America did $370M) for the DC future.

Did someone tip him off to the bombshell report coming from The Hollywood Reporter tonight?

Laying out specifics of what Gunn and Safran intend to do with the current DC comics film universe, we get the following damning quotes for the prior status quo, which itself has had multiple attempts to fix what it was since Zack Snyder started it with 2013’s Man of Steel:

Multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3 is not moving forward and is considered dead in its current incarnation.

It is unclear how any future Wonder Woman movie, and Gadot’s portrayal of the hero, would fit into the new DC plan.

Also unlikely is a sequel to Black Adam.

Johnson hoped to carve out his own piece of the DC pie, but multiple sources say his playing up of a returning Cavill and his own involvement with DC may not be endearing him to the new management.

In a word? Ouch.

But it’s not all bad for those who enjoyed the prior films.

One part that the Gunn-Safran agenda seems likely not to touch, at least for now, is the Matt Reeves Batman universe in which Robert Pattinson dons the cowl of the Caped Crusader. Reeves is writing the sequel to The Batman, which opened in March 4. The filmmaker is also overseeing the launch of two Batman series that spin out of his movie, including The Penguin.2

I suppose to quote Dwayne’s favorite bit of Black Adam marketing, the Hierarchy of Power has indeed changed. And unfortunately, he’s finding himself at the bottom of it.

I’ll be the first to admit, Rotten Tomatoes is a terrible metric, but follow me here. ↩

I’m very, VERY happy about this. ↩

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on grief

jonathan safran foer / don delillo / holly warburton / eden robinson / best man down / the microphones / barbara kroll / eden robinson cont.

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Consigli di libri da portare in viaggio:

per la Grecia Zorba il greco di Nikos Kazantzakis, un classico contemporaneo filosofico ambientato a Creta. Come guida atipica è molto bello Nelle terre del mito. Viaggiare in Grecia con dèi, eroi e poeti scritto da Dario Del Corno.

A Parigi è molto bello leggere Festa mobile, autobiografia romanzata di Ernest Hemingway, perché immerge nella onirica Parigi bohémien degli anni Venti, che tra bevute, oppio, jazz e corse ai cavalli era una vera festa in continuo movimento. A Parigi si può viaggiare nel tempo della Rivoluzione francese con il libro Citadini, cronaca della Rivoluzione francese di Simon Schama.

Anche a Londra si possono fare mille viaggi letterari, uno interessante e forse meno scontato è quello tra le pagine della graphic novel From Hell di Alan Moore, nella Londra dell’Ottocento sulle orme di Jack Lo Squartatore. 

La guida migliore della Spagna rimane il buon vecchio Don Chisciotte di Cervantes. Ogni paese ha un classico in cui si riconosce: in Italia c’è Dante, in Germania Goethe, in Francia Proust, in Inghilterra Dickens, invece in Spagna hanno Cervantes.

Per l’Europa dell’Est c’è Ogni cosa è illuminata di Jonathan Safran Foer in cui l’autore si mette alla ricerca dei suoi antenati in Ucraina. In Russia è divertente ritrovare i luoghi di Anna Karenina descritti da Tolstoj e immaginarsi per strada in compagnia di Aleksej, Stapan, Dolly e Kitty. 

L’America è raccontata da tantissimi libri. Per New York mi limito a suggerire Le mille luci di New York di Jay McInerney e la Trilogia di New York di Paul Auster. Per la West Coast il noir Il grande sonno di Raymnd Chandler, ambientato nella San Francisco più oscura, assieme ai deliranti romanzi di Charles Bukowski a Los Angeles. Lo spirito del viaggio e della letteratura on the road per eccellenza lo si trova ovviamente nel libro culto di Jack Kerouac Sulla strada, che è stato definito “il profilo dell’America disegnato con le ruote di una Cadillac”. 

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[fujikoi]

your show could avoid characters saying anything misogynistic and still have misogynistic undertones and storylines

language may change but there´s not a stark divide in culture between the teens in the 2010s and now

also misogynistic people exist

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her garden yearns more for visitors than water.

[fatima aamer bilal, from my heart has claws // cody rocko // margaret atwood, from speeches for dr. frankenstein // cody rocko // @metamorphesque // jonathan safran foer // ruth katz crispin, from memory in my hands: the love poetry of pedro salinas; "the voice i owe to you" // fatima aamer bilal, from even flesh eaters don't want me // don synder // fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky]