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Category Archives: Movies
TCS: Connected By Love and A Leash
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ “I care not for … Continue reading
TCS: Notes from the Field
Good Morning! ___________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
TCS: Spaghetti Westerns – Danish Style?
Good Morning! ______________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Clint Eastwood, Ennio Morricone, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Spaghetti Westerns - Danish Style?, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tom Hanks
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Titling the post-Trump biopic… Get The Bigly Shorty, or Derp in Paradise Papers
By ann summers There probably have been numerous Trump biography projects already underway, perhaps even one started when we thought he would lose the Electoral College vote. We already have some interesting, even landmark films about a variety of financial scandals, … Continue reading
TCS: Music, Movies and Magic
Good Morning! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Movies Music and Magic, Silent Films, TCS, The Holiday, The Red Pony, Thief of Bagdad, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Trump is more Doris Day Presidential than Modern Day Presidential
By ann summers While on the campaign trail, Trump said he didn’t want to act presidential “quite yet,” but promised at that he would become “so presidential that you people will be so bored.” “At some point, I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Government, History, Media, Movies, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Television
Tagged Media, movies, Politics
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post-Trump, how should the cinema treat #TrumpRussia
By ann summers The NSA analysis does not draw conclusions about whether the interference had any effect on the election’s outcome and concedes that much remains unknown about the extent of the hackers’ accomplishments. However, the report raises the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Celebrity, France, Germany, Government, History, Movies, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Society, Television
Tagged Art, cinema, Donald Trump, film, Media, movies, Politics, television, trumprussia, Video
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Propaganda 102 Supplemental: Holly Would “American Sniper”
Or “Blood Simple Is As Blood Simple Does”* by Gene Howington The definition of success in propaganda is a bit like pulling off a successful magic trick. It works best if no one realizes exactly how they’re being manipulated. At … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics, Propaganda
Tagged American Sniper, Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood
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it’s always about Lord Dampnut, even if he wasn’t at the Oscars
By ann summers A LITTLE SAD! 5 A.M. BOWEL MOVEMENT AT BREITBART Lord Dampnut was so trolled by Hollywood tweeters that he instead chose to use Breitbart, an exemplar of FakeNews, to exercise his post-Oscars spew about the show … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Celebrity, History, Media, Movies, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Television, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, movies, Oscars, Politics, twitter
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“‘Little America’…may end up being just the sort of movie that we need right now.
By ann summers “Of course, some moviegoers may wonder whether we need a movie like Little America right now. Several comparisons have been made between the film’s setting and the current political landscape, and if the movie mirrors that too … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, alternative facts, Celebrity, Media, Movies, Political Science, Politics, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged Media, michael bay, movies, Politics
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