#Mann Robinson

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SEBASTIAN (2023) Jamie Bernadette crime horror on Tubi - trailer

Sebastian is a 2023 American crime horror film about a reincarnated Christian martyr pursuing the love of a young woman while killing others. Directed by Mann Robinson (Super Turnt) from a screenplay co-written by Ken King. The movie stars horror icon Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu), Darius McCrary, Torrei Hart, Luca Della Valle, Clifton Powell, Cocoa Brown, Jermaine Hopkins,…

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Jamie Bernadette's serial killer film Sebastian now streaming on TUBI!

Sebastian is now streaming on Tubi and we have the trailer, poster, and synopsis. The crime-driven horror film in which a serial killer ravages a city stars horror icon Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu), Darius McCrary (Family Matters), Torrei Hart (Hollywould), and Luca Della Valle (Distant Vision). The supporting cast includes Clifton Powell (Ray), Cocoa Brown (9-1-1), Jermaine…

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Sebastian (2023) Date de sortie : 29/03/2023 Réalisateur : Mann Robinson Scénario : Mann Robinson Avec : Jamie Bernadette, Darius McCrary, Luca Della Valle

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Terrence Mann in Law & Order's "Whose Monkey is it Anyway?" (2001)

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If anyone ever writes a good Doris dystopian fic of Meet the Robinsons, I’ll be HYPING IT UP ILL BE THERE

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Anyone But You (15): It's Shakespeare, but not as you know it.

Anyone But You. #AnyoneButYou. A loose Rom-Com adaption of Shakespeare's classic: ``Much Ado About Nothing``. Join Bea, Ben, Halle, and Claudia and find out what happens!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Anyone But You” (2023). Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has been filmed many times for TV and (most notably) for the cinema in Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 movie. It also got a more modern treatment in “Messina High” in 2015. Here in “Anyone But You” we go full Rom-Com for what I think scholars will probably agree to be a “lose interpretation” of Shakespeare’s…

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Darren's reply and Comments on Darren's Instagram post (October 7th, 2022)

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El futuro del deporte viste de morado y dorado… “Lakers: Tiempo De Ganar · Temporada 2”

La serie continúa explorando la vida profesional y personal de Los Angeles Lakers, enfocándose en el período inmediatamente posterior a las Finales, de 1980 hasta 1984, que culmina con la primera revancha profesional de las estrellas más grandes de la era: Magic Johnson y Larry Bird.

Estreno: 6 de agosto de 2023 en HBO y HBO Max.

La segunda temporada cuenta con las actuaciones de John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Adrien Brody, Jason Clarke, Gaby Hoffmann, Jason Segel, Hadley Robinson, DeVaughn Nixon, Solomon Hughes, Tamera Tomakili, Brett Cullen, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Spencer Garrett, Molly Gordon, Joey Brooks, Delante Desouza, Jimel Atkins, Austin Aaron, McCabe Slye, Thomas Mann, Michael Chiklis, entre otros.

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James Earl Jones, RIP

Just heard the heartbreaking news, one of the greatest, most awesome and all time INCREDIBLE actors of all time, as well as one of the sweetest, kindest and most selfless human beings ever, has passed away. The seemingly immortal James Earl Jones, one of the most famous actors of his generation, well respected on both big and small screens AND on the stage for over SEVEN DECADES, respeonsible for portraying some of my favourite screen characters ever ... this might be the one that hurts me the most this year ...

Of course, like everybody, he will FOREVER be most closely associated with Star Wars, as the voice of probably the greatest screen villain of all time, Darth Vader.

But he was also King Jaffe Joffer, the father of Eddie Murphy's wayward prince in Coming to America and its sequel ...

The Counter Culture author Terence Mann in the magnificent Field of Dreams, as well as ...

NSA Agent Abbott in director Phil Alden Robinson's next film, the underrrated suspense thriller Sneakers ...

Simba's dad Mufasa in The Lion King ...

Jack Ryan's CIA boss and father figure, Admiral Jim Greer, in The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games AND Clear & Present Danger ...

Lt. Luther Zogg in one of my favourite screen comedies of all time, Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb (his VERY FIRST big screen role) ...

and, of course, MY very favourite role that he EVER PLAYED, the role I will always MOST FONDLY remember him for, one of my very favourite ever screen villains, the dastardly ancient wizard Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.

Oh yeah, and also those brilliant and thoroughly hilarious Sprint adverts in which he and Malcolm McDowell would read out inane social media posts with the utmost gravitas as though it was Shakespeare ...

The man had an AMAZING RUN, and he is guaranteed to go down as one of the all time greats, beloved around the world and destined to become one of the true icons of the 20th AND 21st Centuries, remembered LONG after his passing. But he's STILL gone far too soon ...

James Earl Jones, January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024. Rest In Power.

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One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct

Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 novel Ministry For the Future was a groundbreaking work: it’s the tale of a detailed, plausible transition from a world on a collision course with civilization-ending climate catastrophe to one where the challenge is met, with humanity collectively deciding to save itself:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/ministry-for-the-future/#ksr

Robinson’s book is important: it not only disproves the (variously attributed) capitalist realism aphorism that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism” — it also imagines the means by which that ending was brought about.

It’s a tale of what I’ve called “The Swerve”: the day we stop listening to the first class passengers at the front of the bus that’s barreling towards a cliff, rush the driver and yank the wheel before we go over the edge:

https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/

Since the book’s publication, it has been the subject of intense foment, such as the excellent Crooked Timber seminar on the book’s strengths, flaws, and future:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/12/seminar-for-the-future/#imaginations

The latest project inspired by the book comes from NESTA and The Prospect: Minister For the Future is a series of policy proposals to someone holding that office, as proposed in Robinson’s novel, for dealing with inequality, food, demographics, networks, mental health, automation, pandemics, health, and other subjects:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/specialreports/minister-for-the-future

I also contributed a piece: “Enticing monopolies to unwind themselves,” which addresses the existential risk of monopolies: when monopolies reign, it is all but impossible to make good policy, because the monopolists can outbid all comers and turn every truth-seeking exercise into an auction that they win:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/enticing-monopolies-to-unwind-themselves

That is, after all, the story of the climate emergency itself: a handful of giant firms colluding to distort science, delay action — and risk billions of lives to make trillions of dollars. Monopolies create superdense concentrations of power that, like a black hole, warp the normal rules:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eldritch-physics/#wouldnt-start-from-here

The best time to tackle monopolies would have been 40 years ago, when all over the world, regulators stopped enforcing anti-monopoly law. The second best time is now. Lucky for us, antitrust regulators have the bit between their teeth and have vowed to halt the march towards market concentration, blocking mergers rather than waving them through:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down

They’ve also promised to take on existing monopolies, unwinding the predatory acquisitions and anti-competitive mergers that produced so much concentration in so many industries, which now rule over their regulators, hurting us in a million ways with utter impunity:

https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/learn/monopoly-by-the-numbers

But while breaking up monopolies is important work, it’s also slow work. It took 69 years to break up AT&T!

https://doctorow.medium.com/podcasting-jam-to-day-c451dd289f2

Blocking future monopolies without ending existing ones is a huge risk. Any monopoly in an industrial supply chain can destroy the smaller firms it buys from and sells to. Think of how Big Pharma’s mergers let it gouge hospitals on drug prices, leading to regional hospital monopolies that had the bargaining power to push back. But then those hospitals turned around and started screwing insurers, who also formed regional monopolies in order to defend themselves from price-gouging.

In the end, monopoly leads to monopoly, with workers and consumers at either end of the supply chain, unorganized and vulnerable, which is why health workers make less money under worse conditions and patients spend more money for worse care. It’s not enough to prevent future monopolies — we also have to break up the ones that are all around us.

How can we make that happen without waiting 69 years while the monopolists use their vast cash reserves and influence to delay the reckoning? That’s where my proposal comes in.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/enticing-monopolies-to-unwind-themselves

I am old enough to remember when corporate raiders took over companies in order to break them up and sell them for parts, rather than merging them into monopolies. Rapacious, remorseless finance assholes once stalked the corporate world, shattering firms with impunity.

What if we brought those monsters out of retirement for one more job?

My proposal is simple: a two-year capital gains tax holiday on profits from unwinding any 21st century merger involving a firm with more than £10b in market cap: “Watch them do in months what decades of courtroom grinding couldn’t hope to accomplish.”

This is a very Ministry For the Future kind of idea — one of the novel’s subplots involves bribing oil companies to leave oil in the ground by buying up all their stranded assets, and swallowing the galling proposition of giving still more money to the people who wrecked the planet.

I’m ambivalent about my proposal for the same reason I was ambivalent about Robsinson’s stranded-assets thought-experiment. But the last time I talked with Robinson, he shrugged and said, “We’ll just take it all back with a wealth tax.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfgfh3SYu8Y

The whole “Minister” package is a fascinating one, and there is something extremely refreshing about imagining a post-Swerve future, where high officials are bent on actually addressing our most urgent problems, backed by an unstoppable political will.

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May 2023 Reads

Thief! - Megan Whalen Turner

The King of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner

A Conspiracy of Kings - Megan Whalen Turner

Thick As Thieves - Megan Whalen Turner

Painted Devils - Margaret Owen

The Other Merlin - Robyn Schneider

The Future King - Robyn Schneider

Happy Place - Emily Henry

The Fiancee Farce - Alexandria Bellefleur

Emma of 83rd Street - Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding 

To Swoon and to Spar - Martha Waters

Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes

Summer Reading - Jenn McKinlay

The Boyfriend Candidate - Ashley Winstead

Imogen, Obviously - Becky Albertalli

Lying in the Deep - Diana Urban

This Book is My Best Friend - Robin Robinson

Quietly Hostile - Samantha Irby

Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile

Honey, Baby, Mine - Laura Darn & Diane Ladd

Live Wire - Kelly Ripa

Beautiful Trauma - Rebecca Fogg

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

Raw Dog - Jamie Loftus

Bootstrapped - Alissa Quart

How to Date Men When You Hate Men - Blythe Roberson

Excellent Advice for Living - Kevin Kelly

Hot and Bothered - Jancee Dunn

You Will Find Your People - Lane Moore

Betting on You - Laurie Ruettimann

I Saw You... - Julia Wertz

How to Die Alone - Mo Welch

CraftFail - Heather Mann

Random Illustrated Facts - Mike Lowery

This Book is For You - Worry Lines

Around the World Vegan Cookbook - Niki Webster

Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook - David Atherton

Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook Vegetarian - David Atherton

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts:

This month continued my Queen’s Thief obsession. Highly recommend this series - each book goes in a new and exciting direction. 

Also, Happy Place broke me and then built me up again. Painted Devils did not disappoint, and the Emry Merlin series was a nice surprise. 

Goodreads Goal: 174/400

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads|

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads

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COMICLIST: DC COMICS NEW RELEASES FOR 09/13/2023

Batman #1 (Facsimile Edition)(Cover A Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson), $6.99

Batman #1 (Facsimile Edition)(Cover B Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson Foil Variant), $8.99

Batman #1 (Facsimile Edition)(Cover C Blank Variant), $7.99

Batman #608 (Jim Lee 2nd Printing Foil Variant Cover)(Batman Day 2023 Special Edition)(available 09/16/23), $9.99

Batman ’89 HC (Joe Quinones Variant Dust Jacket)(Batman Day 2023 Special Edition)(available 09/16/23), $29.99

Batman And Robin #1 (Cover A Simone Di Meo Wraparound Variant), $4.99

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Batman And The Joker The Deadly Duo #1 (Of 7)(Batman Day 2023 Special Edition)(available 09/16/23), AR

Batman And The Joker The Deadly Duo Deluxe Edition HC, $29.99

Batman Catwoman Prelude To Gotham War #1 (Batman Day 2023 Special Edition)(available 09/16/23), AR

Batman Gargoyle Of Gotham #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Rafael Grampa), $6.99

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Dark Knights Of Steel Volume 1 TP, $16.99

GCPD The Blue Wall HC, $24.99

Green Lantern #3 (Cover A Xermanico), $4.99

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Green Lantern #3 (Cover E Jack Herbert Card Stock Variant), AR

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Harley Quinn The Animated Series Legion Of Bats HC, $24.99

Looney Tunes #274 (Cover A Robert Pope), $2.99

Shazam Power Of Hope HC, $19.99

Superman Lost #6 (Of 10)(Cover A Carlo Pagulayan & Jason Paz), $4.99

Superman Lost #6 (Of 10)(Cover B Lee Weeks Card Stock Variant), $5.99

Superman Lost #6 (Of 10)(Cover C Gary Frank Card Stock Variant), AR

Waller Vs. Wildstorm #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Jorge Fornes), $5.99

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Waller Vs. Wildstorm #3 (Of 4)(Cover C Aaron Campbell), AR

Wonder Woman War Of The Gods Special Edition #3 (Of 4)(Cover A George Perez), $4.99

World’s Finest Teen Titans #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Chris Samnee & Mat Lopes), $3.99

World’s Finest Teen Titans #3 (Of 6)(Cover B Evan Doc Shaner Card Stock Variant), $4.99

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17 Again plot out of context: While finding himself, Zac Efron romances soon-to-be divorced MILF Scarlet O'Donnell (Leslie Mann)

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Rudderless (2014): Grieving to a beat.

Manoj Mistry reviews "Rudderless" (2014). A tale of working through grief with music starring Billy Crudup. 4/5.

A review of “Rudderless” (2014): a guest review on One Mann’s Movies by Manoj Mistry. Dr Bob: This is the first time I’ve welcomed a guest reviewer to include an article on this site, but Manoj expressed an interest in writing retrospective reviews for older films. (If anyone else out there would like to write a review – in this standard prescribed format – for submission then please enquire at…