April 26, 2024

When David Lynch and Robert Altman Consoled Each Other Over the Oscars’ Bad Taste

The top headlines made by the 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg on Mar. 4, 2002, were that Denzel Washington had joined Sidney Poitier as the only Black winners of the Best Actor prize (for Training Day), and that Halle Berry had become the first Black woman to take home Best Actress (for Monster’s

A Taste of Their Own Medicine – Rival Islamist Group Releases Film Showing Executions of ISIS Jihadists

An Islamist group has released a video showing the merciless executions of 18 Islamic State (ISIS) fighters, in a tit-for-tat propagandist reprisal for a similar video released by ISIS last week. The Muslim world appears to be at war with itself as rival Islamist groups dream up creative new ways of killing each other before […]

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