Tag: 5 stars

The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account
A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker?
Link: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29/17406750/bryan-colangelo-philadelphia-76ers-twitter-joel-embiid-anonymous-markelle-fultz
The Rider (2017) - IMDb
Directed by Chloé Zhao. With Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau. After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6217608/
First Reformed (2017) - IMDb
Directed by Paul Schrader. With Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Victoria Hill. A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/
The Death of Stalin (2017) - IMDb
Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/
Bundyville: The Remnant
A series and podcast from Longreads, in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Link: https://longreads.com/bundyville/
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017) - IMDb
Directed by Sara Driver. With Alexis Adler, Fab 5 Freddy, Patricia Field, Coleen Fitzgibbon. Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts cultur
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210348/
The Guardians (2017) - IMDb
Directed by Xavier Beauvois. With Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry, Cyril Descours. Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6213362/
The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy
More than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba, a U.S. investigation is no closer to determining how they were hurt or by whom, and the FBI and CIA are at odds over the case. A ProPublica investigation
Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba?token=yIzUwxhFBlPUbcgl8aMwDk7gQ6AdqbgA
Cashgate
How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa
Link: https://medium.com/latterly/cashgate-2e6628549bf5
Revenge (2017) - IMDb
Directed by Coralie Fargeat. With Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède. Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738136/
Deadpool 2 (2018) - IMDb
Directed by David Leitch. With Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison. Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool), brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities fr
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/