The Big Picture Compliance is a difficult and unpleasant film that explores the psychology behind authority figures manipulating people into doing horrible things. The movie is based on a real-life crime that occurred at a McDonald’s in Kentucky in 2004, where a manager and her fiancé were convinced by a prank caller to sexually assault … Read more
Massachusetts doctor Scott Hadland, who is an addiction specialist, is speaking out about Matthew Perry‘s autopsy report, explaining how ketamine played a key role in his death. According to the autopsy report, obtained by The Blast, Matthew Perry died from “acute effects of the drug Ketamine.” The autopsy report also stated that Perry was utilizing … Read more
Men, Ex Machina, and Annihilation director Alex Garland examines an America tearing itself apart in Civil War, and honestly, the trailer feels deeply uncomfortable to watch. A24 dropped a chilling first look at the upcoming film which sees a “near-future” U.S. descending into brutal conflict. We’re introduced to Nick Offerman as the president overseeing a … Read more
Dozens of prominent Asian American groups are asking United States lawmakers this morning to hold fast in the face of an anticipated campaign by congressional leaders to extend the Section 702 surveillance program by securing it, like a rider, to another “must pass” bill. Sixty-three groups across the country representing and allied with Asian American … Read more
For the first few minutes of The Zone of Interest, the film deliberately isolates your sense of hearing. A black screen lingers as droning notes are woven with whispers and the sounds of nature. You’re plunged into a meditative state of simultaneous sensory deprivation and amplification, the effect being that for the next two hours, … Read more
A 77-year-old man shot dead two environmental protesters on Wednesday in an apparent outburst of rage over a roadblock in Panama. The gunman was named in local media as Kenneth Franklin Darlington Salas. If he is convicted, Mr Salas could be sentenced to house arrest rather than being sent to jail because of his age. … Read more
A video released by a Ukrainian activist appears to show a drone hunting down a Russian soldier. The video shows a soldier desperately trying to avoid the drone by ducking in and out of cover. This story contains elements that some might find distressing. Dramatic video footage released on Telegram appears to show a Ukrainian … Read more
Play video content Sickening audio has now surfaced of Joran van der Sloot confessing on tape to murdering Natalee Holloway … bashing her head with a cinder block on the beach. The chilling confession, released by the court, includes Joran describing his night with the 18-year-old Alabama native on a beach in Aruba back in … Read more
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Sunday said Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s refusal to condemn Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric showed America is “living through real-time preparation for an authoritarian crackdown.” Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Kristen Walker of NBC’s “Meet The Press” that Trump’s floating of the idea of executing … Read more
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During World War II, the Germans designated the area surrounding Auschwitz the “zone of interest.” The dullness of the phrase was intentional, another euphemism as operative as “concentration camp.” In Jonathan Glazer’s sorta adaptation of Martin Amis’ eponymous novel, this self-delusion is on display. Hedwig Höss (Sandra Hüller) runs a stately home. She raises her … Read more