This is intellectually dishonest. If he had come out with a movie at the level of Get Out, Precious or Moonlight in those 4 days I would understand this glazing
But the movie is bad. It's badly written, it's badly edited, badly directed and produced. We need to be able to call Tyler Perry's work bad so even if it's successful we're not teaching young creatives that short-cuts are what's best for art.
Privatization wasn’t on the ballot when Canadians voted for Mark Carney.
Really foul the way he’s using the blind trust so many continue to have in him to make massive, fundamental changes to Canada (hurting normal Canadians) so big companies can profit.
Please pay attention.
Lots of talk about private investment, not much discussion in how this makes things more affordable, and society more livable, for the average Canadian (because it doesn't)
Macklemore is speaking out after being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour, seemingly placing blame on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, saying that the billionaire rallied other stadium owners to ban him from performing at their venues:
“Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years.... I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened [in Gaza]... Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues....
Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words 'Free Palestine' and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, 'I don't take sides'....
I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation....
I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.”
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It's utterly disgraceful that in proping up Johnathan Glazer and the directors for this new film, Variety never mentions Hamdan Ballal the Palestinian co-director of NO OTHER LAND who was violently beaten by Israeli settlers and taken by IOF last Match after winning the Oscar.
Why Did I Get Married Again? shocked me with how bad the acting was after the first 2 movies. And the message is “yes yall cheated on each other, we all done cheated on each other, get married anyway”?
Trash
When a massacre like Kenscoff happens, everyone has something to say. But no one wants to take responsibility, including political parties that are part of the governing pact. If it's a sharing of responsibility by designating a minister, are you also not responsible for government inaction? And politicians wonder why the population doesn't believe in elections and is not running them down to offer support or register to vote. #Haiti
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.