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Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)

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ARGO 2012

It means, "Argo fuck yourself."

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Wish (2023) Quality : HD Screencaptures Amount : 2041 files Resolution : 1920x800px 

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Alfredo is a total babe in this Charlie Rose 1998 interview. Video on YouTube and Dailymotion. Victor Garber is a babe too - just so you know.

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→ New York, New York on Broadway @ the Broadway red carpet opening covered by The Upcoming

Colton Ryan, Anna Uzele, Lin Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff, Zachary James, Victor Garber and Rob Marshall

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Wish (2023)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Wish has scenes of a bright light whizzing around, similar to the effect of pointing a laser pointer and waving it around rapidly. Some magic effects may cause mild strobes.

There are some sweeping and spinning shots. A late scene takes place at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 4/10. Motion Sickness: 3/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: Early in the film, a passenger on a boat is visibly nauseous, and heaves, but nothing comes out.

Image ID: a promotional poster for Wish

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Title: Wish

Rating: PG

Director: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn

Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Niko Vargas, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, Jon Rudnitsky, Della Saba, Keone Young, Lucas Sigler, Holland Watkins, Woody Buck, Efé

Release year: 2023

Genres: fantasy, adventure, family

Blurb: Sharp-witted idealist Asha makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force: a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe - the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico - to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

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Wish Trailer

Rosas, known as the Kingdom of Wishes, is a fantastical land off the Iberian Peninsula. People travel to the Rosas to give their wishes to the magical king who promises to grant their desires...someday. Ahsa is an idealist who “makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.” (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Wish stars the voice talents of Ariana DeBose (Asha), Chris Pine (King Magnifico), Alan Tudyk (Valentino the  goat), Angelique Cabral (Queen Amaya), Victor Garber (Sabino), Natasha Rothwell (Sakina), Jennifer Kumiyama (Dahlia), Evan Peters (Simon), Harvey Guillén (Gabo), Ramy Youssef (Safi), Niko Vargas (Hal), Della Saba (Bazeema), and Jon Rudnitsky (Dario). Chris Buck and Fawn Verrasunthorn are directing from a screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore. The film features original songs by Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice and a score by Dave Metzger.

Disney’s Wish releases to theaters on November 22, 2023.

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symbiotic relationship

[kermodefan94-blog]

Wish. (Disney) Movie Review.

Even with the benefit of lowered expectations this thing is astonishingly bad

In a lot of ways, Disney’s 2023 creative and box office returns are an incredibly easy target. The House of Mouse has become so omnipresent in hoovering up various IP over the last 10 years that when cranks started to show large swaths of audiences would examine the fall in microscopic detail as well as perceiving that all of this is as a result of a perceived “wokeness.” In theory, it is not…

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Time 26-Nov-2023 10:40 Day Sunday Where Cineworld - Rushden Lakes Screen 7 Seat H13 Price £3.23

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Disney's 'Wish' Wednesdays Continues With Affirmation Song "I'm A Star"

The songs of Disney animated musicals have quite a range. There’s the “I Want” Song, the villain song, the welcome song, and the romantic song just to name more than a few. And every once in a while there comes a song that affirms that you, yes you, can be a star. And so, the studio has debuted “I’m a Star” as a part of their weekly release series, Wish Wednesdays. Continue reading Untitled

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After Harvard University threatened hundreds of students with immediate suspension against the backdrop of the peaceful action for Gaza, the students led a march to Interim President Alan Garber’s house affirming their call for divestment from Israeli genocide.

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By: NY Post Editorial Board

Published: Apr 25, 2024

At least one elite university is effectively resisting the pro-Hamas occupiers: In fact, Harvard just literally poured cold water on a nascent encampment.

After protesters set up dozens of tents in Harvard Yard late Wednesday, the university set off sprinklers from 2:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. Thursday morning as temps dipped into the 30s, flooding out the colony as students futilely tried to use buckets to stop the streams.

And what an elegant move: no confrontation, no conflict, just a pointed message to rabble-rousers to move along.

Looks like forcing the resignation of former President Claudine Gay may actually have begun to make a difference.

In earlier “preventative medicine,” the school on Monday locked the gates of the yard, limiting access to only those with student IDs, while posting signs warning that no tents or tables would be allowed.

All this signifies a marked departure from the environment under Gay, who allowed aggressive anti-Israel protesters (and their antisemitism) to run roughshod over the rest of the student body and trash the university’s reputation, going so far as to run cover for them in front of Congress.

It seems Harvard’s interim president, Alan Garber, learned from her mistakes, at least enough to stifle protests that break college rules before they explode into campus-wide disorder.

We still think institutional, long-term improvement requires changes from the Harvard Corp. board on down, but progress is still progress.

And, in the meantime — mind the puddles.

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By: Emily Crane, David Spector and Patrick Reilly

Published: Apr 25, 2024

Harvard University’s anti-Israel tent encampment was temporarily thwarted overnight — by a slew of sprinklers that flooded protesters’ tents – as demonstrations rocked other campuses across the country.

Dozens of sleeping protesters who were trying to catch some shuteye were disturbed when the sprinklers suddenly turned on in the middle of the Ivy League’s Cambridge campus.

“As protesters spend their first night in the Harvard Yard encampment, the biggest threat to their stay has not come from administrators or Harvard University police officers, but the Yard’s sprinklers,” the Harvard Crimson student-led paper said early Thursday.

The first sprinkler switched on just outside the encampment in Harvard Yard at about 2:30 a.m. as temperatures dipped to 36 degrees.

[ Sprinklers disrupted Harvard University's anti-Israel tent encampment overnight. ]

Then, just before 4 a.m., a sprinkler located in the middle of the tents started spraying out water, prompting students to quickly start handing out buckets.

“Two more sprinklers turned on at the edge of the encampment near Massachusetts Hall,” the newspaper said in a live blog update at 4:05 a.m.

“The sprinklers began to hit tents on the edge of the camp before protesters rushed over to cover the sprinklers with buckets and sit on them.”

Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee said in an Instagram post some of the students’ tents were flooded with freezing cold water after the 4 a.m. burst. A video showed a student struggling to readjust a tarpaulin in a wet tent.

Protesters met and discussed how to handle the situation through another night and later moved their tents and supplies to other patches of grass away from the sprinklers, The Crimson reported.

The Post has reached out to Harvard for comment.

More than a dozen tents popped up at the $79,500-a-year college Wednesday after a rally against the university’s suspension of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.

Trying to stay ahead of planned protests that have already disrupted Columbia and New York University, Harvard locked most gates into its famous yard ahead of classes Monday and limited access to those with school identification.

The school also posted warning signs about setting up tents or tables on campus without permission.

As of Thursday, no arrests had been made.

The waterworks came as anti-Israel protests popped up on college campuses across the nation – including at New York City schools such as Columbia University, New York University, Fashion Institute of Technology and CUNY’s City College.

Across the Hudson River, Princeton University’s anti-Israel encampment failed to launch Thursday when two grad students were arrested within the first 10 minutes of the demonstration.

Achinthya Sivalingam and Hassan Sayed were busted shortly after the first tents went up, according to the Daily Princetonian.

“It’s a big flop,” said counter-protester Laurie Feldstein.

Professor Max Weiss delivered a long speech that was difficult to hear over the sound of patrolling helicopters overhead – he read a poem from a Palestinian writer which says that Jews “evolved backward” from “victims to victimizers.”

After police escorted another speaker, Chris Hedges, off campus, a demonstrator brandishing a sign calling for freedom for jailed Palestinian terrorist leader Ahmad Sa’adat led an enraged crowd in a chant of “there is only one solution Intifada revolution.”

Fireworks erupted during an afternoon press conference when a protester shouted “Hamas are freedom fighters” at Jewish student Max Meyer. By mid-afternoon, the crowd thinned and the demonstration took on more of a picnic and group hangout vibe.

Elsewhere, in Georgia, Emory University’s demonstrations got nasty as uniformed officers from the Atlanta Police Department, many with shields and gas masks and pellet guns, descended on campus after an encampment was set up on the main quad Thursday.

One video posted online showed a protester tackled to the ground and tased by police. The doctoral student who took the video told NBC News officers used tear gas, which was also reported by the student newspaper “The Emory Wheel.”

Activists said in a statement police used “pepper bullets, tear gas, and tasers for the simple act of camping out on a school lawn.”

Noelle McAfee, chair of the school’s Philosophy Department was filmed being detained, Atlanta News First reported. 

Economics professor Caroline Fohlin was also arrested, per CNN.

Boston police arrested more than 100 demonstrators at Emerson University after tearing down an encampment there around 2 a.m. Thursday. The university canceled classes for the day, NBC Boston reported.

They were cleared out from their position in an alleyway in just 30 minutes. In total, 108 were taken in custody. Four police officers were injured, one serious, cops said.

Across town at Northeastern University, Boston police surrounded another encampment erected by hundreds of students and faculty in the school’s Centennial Common, according to the student newspaper The Huntington News. No arrests were made by Thursday afternoon, local outlets reported.

Meanwhile, the University of Southern California canceled its main commencement ceremony for graduating students next month over “new safety measures in place,” school officials announced Thursday.

Police arrested 93 student protesters at USC on Wednesday.

The decision comes a week after USC barred Muslim valedictorian Asna Tabassum, a biomedical engineering student, from delivering a graduation speech over security concerns.

The main stage ceremony, which was scheduled for May 10, traditionally brings all 65,000 students and their families together. The university said it plans “new activities and celebrations” for students.

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The wet, upper-middle class children will see themselves as victims of an unprovoked attack. And never spot the hypocrisy.

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Books of 2022

In 2022, I read fewer books overall (143, down from last year’s ridiculous 303) but I did manage to cut down on my romance novel reading---a respectable 52% instead of last year’s 78%. The consequence of this is that I did actually read more good books this year, books I could talk about with other people and inspired feelings and thoughts that rattled around my head afterwards. Plus some actual nonfiction!

Going through all of them, what I liked about them, why they made such an impression, would take a while---plus I’ve already talked about most of these in my books tag. So I’m just going to invite everyone to ask about anything that catches their eye!

BEST FICTION (IN THE ORDER I READ THEM) ** indicates a particular favorite

The House of Small Shadows, Adam Nevill

**The Cipher, Kathe Koja

Eartheater, Dolores Reyes

Hadriana in All My Dreams, René Depestre

**Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica 

You've Lost a Lot of Blood, Eric LaRocca

The Beautiful Ones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

War for the Oaks, Emma Bull

Girl A, Abigail Dean

This Might Hurt, Stephanie Wrobel

**Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes

Eva Ibbotson’s A Countess Below Stairs, A Company of Swans, & Magic Flutes

Deerskin, Robin McKinley

BEST NONFICTION

An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare

**Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher

Urban Folklore in the Paperwork Empire, Alan Dundes & Carl R. Pagter

**Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

**Men, Women & Chainsaws, Carol J. Clover

[romance novels and most disliked books under the cut---I did give these a bit of an explanation, because being asked about romance novels makes me itchy. We shall never speak of these again.]

ROMANCE NOVEL READING

Vivienne Lorret (How to Forget a Duke, Ten Kisses to Scandal, The Rogue to Ruin, When a Marquess Loves a Woman, How to Steal a Scoundrel's Hear) Admittedly, nothing particularly unique about these---however, they are more traditional romance and a pretty decent attempt at actual regency-style manners, so I enjoyed myself reading them.

Olivia Atwater (Half a Soul, Ten Thousand Stitches, Longshadow) I actually sincerely loved these! Supernatural historical romance from a solid writer. Plus, the series has angrier, more class-conscious sensibilities than all the romance novels I've read---and is less hypocritical about it too, since the characters are largely not nobility, and there's no marrying dukes involved.

Alice Coldwater (His Forsaken Bride, An Ill-Made Match, The Unlovely Bride, Wed By Proxy) So admittedly, I don’t recommend reading all four of these together---it becomes increasingly clear that Coldwater can only write one and a half heroines, and both of them are excessively weepy. Nevertheless, I took a total leap of faith on this (historical fantasy romance isn't typically my genre) and was rewarded by a lot of delightful pining, some court politics, and the 1.5 heroines she can write are fun to follow around.

C.L. Wilson (The Winter King, The Sea King) If last year was about reading every romance novel about dukes I could find, this year was about finding all the fantasy romance novels. (Shout out to Stephanie Garber who also helped feed this inexplicable urge!) Anyway, this series was fun, similar to the above in that it’s fake fantasy politics and some romance, and that’s a combination that works for me.

MOST DISLIKED BOOKS

Redshirts, John Scalzi I have never despised a book quite like this one! I still can't tell if it's the smirkingly obvious Star Trek meta of it all, or the hat on a hat that is the last chapter/coda 1. I did like coda 3, but only because it felt like the only quietly, emotionally sincere part of the whole stupid book.

High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robinson Novellas must be tricky to write---I’ve read a fistful or so, and find them to be wildly variable in quality and effectiveness. That said....the author’s attempt to resolve entrenched political problems via dance made me roll my eyes so hard I strained a muscle. It ruined what might have otherwise been a fun time, since I did like the narrator's charmingly disaffected perspective

Always Be My Duchess, Amalie Howard Emotional honesty and vulnerability has no place in romance novels. I read historical romance specifically so people won’t talk about their feelings, and the fact that romancelandia keeps shoehorning therapy-speak into my regency may in fact be my villain origin story. However, even worse than that is this book’s use of “totally” and "patriarchy" in a completely ahistorical way, betraying a nauseating disinterest in the time period being written about. Worse than even that: the total fucking coward's move it is to write a Pretty Woman fic but then have the heroine be a virgin and not a sex worker at all. God knows we can't be interesting.

Death, Laura Thelassa This one is my own fault. I did think "hey isn't that the romance series with the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse? I read one of those a long time ago; I should give it another shot." (I promise, I regretted it instantly.) However, it is another excellent entry in the long list of cowardly books that refuse to actually lean into enemies to lovers as a trope. Also, if you have undying protagonists? they should kill each other more.