0 Arts & Entertainment The working-class neo-noir thriller "Emily the Criminal" lights up the big screen. Horror-comedy "Bodies Bodies Bodies" expands nationwide. Beau Behan , Patch Staff Posted Reply This weekend, movies with generational themes and social commentaries dominate the big screen. Care for a working-class neo-noir thriller? "Emily the Criminal," which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, shines a spotlight on the world of student debt, starring Aubrey Plaza in the title role of a Millennial trying to make ends meet in a service gig economy. If you're looking for a Gen Z horror-comedy, look no further than "Bodies Bodies Bodies," which expands nationwide this weekend. The film stars Pete Davidson, Amandla Stenberg, Chase Sui Wonders, Myha'la Herrold, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott and Lee Pace as a group of friends suddenly propelled into a dangerous web of mistrusts. Related … [Read more...] about Aubrey Plaza Electrifies In ‘Emily The Criminal’
QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have a New Cure-All: $120,000 TVs
For right-wing conspiracy theorists, few devices are more prized than a “med bed,” a mythical tanning bed-shaped appliance that promises to cure everything from cancer and Alzheimer’s to old age itself. Someday soon, they think, Donald Trump will defeat the cabal that controls the world and release med beds to the public, bringing on a new era free of illness. But now, many supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory and related movements are moving on from med beds. They’ve found something even better: the Energy Enhancement System, or “EE System,” a supposedly miraculous healing device that can cure cancer, cystic fibrosis, and even autism. To the uninitiated, an EE System device looks just like a couple of computer monitors playing colored static. But EE System’s devotees insist it’s the real deal—they’re willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a few hours bathed in the colored glow of its screens. They line up for blocks for a chance to meet Sandra Rose Michael, the device’s … [Read more...] about QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have a New Cure-All: $120,000 TVs
Netflix’s ‘The Carter’ Makes ‘The Gray Man’ Look Like Child’s Play
There are thousands upon thousands of action movies and yet virtually none deliver the sheer, gonzo pandemonium of The Carter , a film of such bravura showmanship that, with each successive set piece, it feels like it’s actively shaming its genre brethren. South Korean director Jung Byung-gil’s prior The Villainess was its own masterpiece of brutality, and from a purely technical standpoint, his latest is so jaw-droppingly impressive that it definitively establishes the auteur as the king of inventive insanity. If you subscribe to Netflix and enjoy having your mind incessantly blown for two-plus hours, this import is for you. The Carter (available now) concerns Carter (Joo Won), an imposing man who wakes up in a motel room with amnesia and a strange cross-like scar at the base of his neck. He’s also in a bed covered in blood and surrounded by a squad of American CIA agents who want to know what he’s done with Dr. Jung (Jung Jae-young), a scientist who was in the hostage … [Read more...] about Netflix’s ‘The Carter’ Makes ‘The Gray Man’ Look Like Child’s Play
How Domestic Violence Spilled Over Into Albuquerque Terror
As more details emerge about the criminal history of Muhammad Syed , 51, charged in the murders of two Muslim men in Albuquerque , and a prime suspect in the killing of two more, the family of one of the victims blames police for not intervening sooner. Sharief Ahmadi Hadi, the brother of murder victim Mohammad “Zahir” Ahmadi, says that prime suspect, Muhammad Syed, regularly harassed his family and slashed the tires of his wife’s car in the years prior to his brother’s murder. Hadi says he believes Syed targeted his family because they are Shiite Muslims. Hadi’s brother, Muhammad Zahir Ahmadi, 62, was the first victim in a string of recent murders that have rocked the Muslim community of Albuquerque. Ahmadi was found gunned down in the rear parking lot of the market he ran with his brother on Nov. 7, 2021. Syed has not been charged with his murder but police say he is their main suspect. Hadi, who owns a Halal grocery store and cafe on San Mateo Boulevard in Albuquerque, … [Read more...] about How Domestic Violence Spilled Over Into Albuquerque Terror
Americans Are Too Pampered and Neurotic to Fight a Civil War
“Tomorrow is war,” right-wing media personality Steven Crowder tweeted Monday night after news broke of the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property . Bright and early the next morning, Crowder was back—with details. “Today is war. That is all you will get on today’s show,” he wrote , finishing with the time and hashtag for his political commentary show and a gif of the late conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart saying “war.” Crowder’s initial tweet was the first example cited in a Tuesday New York Times write-up of the surge of violent language from the right following the Mar-a-Lago search. Other examples in the piece (”This. Means. War.” and “We’re at war” and “Country on the verge of CIVIL WAR???”) run along strikingly similar lines, and comments like these were widely featured in a fresh round of speculation that a new Civil War is nigh. But the Crowder posts, particularly, are a perfect illustration of why I think we … [Read more...] about Americans Are Too Pampered and Neurotic to Fight a Civil War
India Taunts Beijing by Flying Dalai Lama to Region near China Border
The Indian Air Force recently deployed a helicopter to fly the 14th Dalai Lama from his place of exile in northern India to a Buddhist festival near the country’s disputed Himalayan border with China, the Deccan Herald reported on Thursday, noting that the action likely served as a “snub” to Beijing, “which in the past repeatedly conveyed its displeasure over the Government of India facilitating the visits of the Tibetan Buddhist monk.” Detailing the development on August 11, the Deccan Herald wrote: The 14th Dalai Lama flew onboard an indigenously developed Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Leh to a 15th century monastery near Lingshed, one of the remotest villages of the [Indian] Union Territory of Ladakh. He had reached Leh on July 15 last for a month-long visit to Ladakh – his first outside the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGiE) at Dharamshala in northern India after the onset of the Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] pandemic. … [Read more...] about India Taunts Beijing by Flying Dalai Lama to Region near China Border
