Tag / film
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“A Quiet Place” Will Be Snubbed At The Oscars
Although I am anxiously awaiting an exposé on MoviePass’s sketchy-at-best business model, I took the deal that felt too good to be true and ran with it. MoviePass is a subscription-based ticketing service for movies. For a flat fee for $9.95 per month, MoviePass allows users to see one movie per day, sending each subscriber…
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Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom from Religion
In many of the countries which have seen recent protests against the film “The Innocence of Muslims, ” their still-fresh Arab Spring revolutions were aided by new online forms of speech like Twitter and Facebook. Social media’s role in the Arab Spring is old news, but the events of the past two weeks show a…
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Guilt by Association
I’ve been closely following the ongoing wave of unrest against the now infamous American-made film insulting Islam, the Innocence of Muslims. The sheer lack of talent, any artistic value, and hilariously shitty production suggests to me that the video was conceived solely to incite anger among Muslims around the world. We know that freedom of…
