Nell Minow's Blog, page 84
May 26, 2016
Weiner
"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers." This quote from Marshall McLuhan opens the sharp and illuminating new documentary about former Congressman and failed New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, whose political career was derailed by a sexting scandal that unfortunately resonated all-too-perfectly with a last name that is a sometime-slang term for the part of the body he was sharing online. "I did the thing," Weiner says in what we see is a characteristic...
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May 25, 2016
Clip: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse — Mickey’s Sport-Y-Thon
Mickey's Sport-Y-Thon is out on DVD this week! We're delighted to present a Volley Bop clip.
And you can also download activity sheets to play along.
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And you can also download activity sheets to play along.
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Kickstarter: Fund a Movie About the Fabulous 90-Year Career of Rose Marie
I couldn't resist this one -- Rose Marie was a superstar when her age was in single digits and her show business career tells the story of entertainment in the 20th century. I hope this film gets made....
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Roots 2016 — Remake of the Classic Series Based on Alex Haley’s Book
The 1977 television miniseries Roots, based on the book by Alex Haley, was one of the foremost cultural events of the decade, watched by millions and discussed by everyone. It followed the story of Haley's family from the capture of his African ancestor, Kunta Kinte (Levar Burton), who was enslaved and brutally abused. For generations, the family struggles to stay together and to hold onto their culture and history.
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May 24, 2016
X-Men: Apocalypse
We love superheroes, but most of the time what makes a superhero movie work is the supervillain. Just as the Avengers on the other side of the Marvel Universe move into X-Men territory by having the supes fight each other, with a villain in "Civil War" who is a mere human, with the most human of motives and goals rather than Loki's "let's blow up the universe and roast marshmallows on the flames" sort of threat, the X-Men, whose primary plotlines rest on the shifting loyalties of its mutant...
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice on Screen
This week's Tim Burton "Alice Through the Looking Glass" is the latest film to feature one of the most popular characters in movie history, based on the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. That was the pen name of a Oxford mathematics professor named Charles Dodgson, who wrote the books in 1865 to entertain a little girl named Alice Liddell.
The stories have been adapted for every possible kind of...
The stories have been adapted for every possible kind of...
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May 23, 2016
Magic and Puzzles from “Now You See Me 2”
#LOOKCLOSER CAMPAIGN
Now live! #LookCloser encourages fans to reveal riddles & clues planted in the film's promo materials, under the guise that The Eye (the film's magical secret society) has put them there to test & recruit new members. For example, look closely at the posters, trailers and social posts already released to reveal hidden clues. Each clue solved and entered on the site, found here, unlocks payoff content (cast...
Now live! #LookCloser encourages fans to reveal riddles & clues planted in the film's promo materials, under the guise that The Eye (the film's magical secret society) has put them there to test & recruit new members. For example, look closely at the posters, trailers and social posts already released to reveal hidden clues. Each clue solved and entered on the site, found here, unlocks payoff content (cast...
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Interview: Composer Pieter Schlosser
Pieter Schlosser is a versatile composer who has created scores for the retro fact-based drama "Astronaut Wives" and the heightened comic surreal "You, Me, and the Apocalypse." His multi-cultural outlook is based in part on his heritage, born in Guatemala, raised in Austria, and currently a dual citizen of the US and the Netherlands.
He began playing the piano when he was 9 or 10. "It was my mother's instrument. we had a piano at the house so...
He began playing the piano when he was 9 or 10. "It was my mother's instrument. we had a piano at the house so...
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Teaser Trailer: Disney’s New Live Action Beauty and the Beast
Emma Watson and Dan Stevens ("Downton Abbey") star in Disney's live action "Beauty and the Beast," coming in 2017. Here's a peek.
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Trailer: Don’t Think Twice
One of the films I am most looking forward to this summer is "Don't Think Twice," Mike Birbiglia's film set in the world of improv comedy, with a sensational cast that includes Keegan-Michael Key and Kate Micucci.
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