My latest video: A look @ the 1994 Street Fighter movie, how its adaptation met the expectations of teenagers like myself, at the time, & how it "plays" now. Includes development & making of. Big thanks: @OllieH82@danieldmoses@TheManFrowns@Marc_V_Price
https://t.co/sa9VlhekBd
Reminds me of the first Doctor William Hartnell. He famously refused to just fiddle with random buttons and instead memorised what every single button and lever on the TARDIS console did He told the directors: "The kids look at this... if I turn the wrong knob, they'll know."
We welcome the Government’s acceptance of Lord Mann’s recommendations and the clear recognition that antisemitism must be addressed urgently across the NHS.
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
It's disrespectful to be on the phone during a play. Yes, other members of the audience can see you, and yes, actors can on stage. When you go to the theatre, you need to give the show your full attention. #TheatreEtiquette https://t.co/Db2K9OMsfL
Today in 1941, the Farhud tore through Baghdad – a brutal pogrom where Jews were beaten, raped and murdered in the streets.
Jack Hikmet, an Iraqi Jew, was born in its aftermath. His life was marked by fear, violence and uncertainty.
This is his story.
Hasan Piker is an apologist for China’s oppression of the Uyghurs, Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the Assad regime, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Whatever your view on the ban is, it is not simply because he is a “critic of Israel”.
85 years ago, the Farhud pogrom shattered one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world.
In June 1941, mobs in Baghdad brutally attacked, murdered, assaulted, and looted Jews simply for being Jewish. The Farhud was not only a tragedy for Iraqi Jewry - it became a symbol of the persecution faced by Jewish communities across the Middle East.
Today, we remember the victims, honor the rich heritage of Iraqi Jews, and reaffirm the importance of standing against antisemitism, hatred, and incitement.
Seriously, recent revelations over emails, WhatsApp messages do raise the question - why don't people just meet clandestinely in shadowy corners and smoke-filled rooms and plot in person, like the good old days? Nothing beats the soiled romance of an artful political assignation.
Wow time flys, we look like our own children at the Toy Story 1 image. The aging Buzz and Woody currently in London telling wonderful fans all about the new Toy Story 5 coming June 19. “To infinity and beyond!”
I’ve had lots of questions about whether the #bbcStoryville#documentary, #WeWillDanceAgain is still on @bbciplayer. The answer is yes, it’s still there. If you’re in the UK and you want to watch, or encourage others to, it’s on this link https://t.co/fjFiwRDj6d #Nova#october7
The problem with Spielberg's style, which I love, is that music telegraphs a lot of the emotion. Modern audiences find this old fashioned. They like no underscore and definitely no leitmotifs, yet they want a faster pace. So in camera blocking gets dropped for more edit based filmmaking - Nolan/Villeneuve. I like the latter too, but as a child of the 80s I die for Spielberg's classical blocking.
Folks, theater etiquette has to improve. A couple next to me at Backrooms brought in sushi & used their phone to light the food so they could eat with chopsticks. I don’t enjoy ranting/complaining about this sort of thing, but we as a society have to be better. Like come on.
The remarkable thing about this is how widespread it is. It happens on campus, online, at work, at dinner parties and potluck dinners and school drop-off and school pick-up and on and on. All of these unhappy interactions amount to the same surreality, the same lie: We have no problem with Jews, just Zionists.
If one protests, if one says, This is the same distinction that Jews have been asked to make over the many centuries -- we have no problem with your Jewishness, just this core part of it -- one is inevitably met with the unthinking, "Genocide!" There's no point in getting into that debate, because it is now religion among so-called progressives. One has to embrace the belief that the Jews are guilty of the worst of all possible crimes, and if you do not believe it, if you do not declare your support vociferously and unequivocally, you'll be excommunicated from polite society. Ghettoized.
The contemporary "left" is simply reenacting the hatreds, the myopias, the violence, of all the antisemites who came before. It imagines itself, arrogantly, ignorantly, transcending the past. It is, in fact, a slave to it.