The Endless: Directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead. With Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington. As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3986820/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Deadpool 2: Directed by David Leitch. With Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison. Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilitie
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Revenge: 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 m
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738136/?ref_=nv_sr_1
How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa
via Medium: https://medium.com/latterly/cashgate-2e6628549bf5
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 reveals the many layers to the mystery — and…
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba
The Guardians: 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.
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The Death of Stalin: Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the m
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/?ref_=nv_sr_1
First Reformed: 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 tormen
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Rider: 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.
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6217608/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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?
Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of-vaping-and-the-rise-of-juul
THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! This week on the show, we are joined by the legendary JESSE MICHAELS of Operation Ivy & Common Rider fame! Sit back & listen as Damian gets to talk to one of the most influential punk vocalist ever! From the Bay to th
via Audioboom: https://audioboom.com/posts/6844038-episode-167-jesse-michaels-operation-ivy-big-rig-classics-of-love-common-rider
New York Times reporter Eric Lipton says the response to a recent FOIA request shows that Scott Pruitt and his staff have gone to great lengths to keep the public and the news media at a distance.
via NPR.org: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/09/609697381/reporter-on-new-email-dump-that-reveals-secret-inner-workings-of-the-epa
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine. His journey reveals a troubling development in Putin’s information war.
via Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking/
The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.
via The Atavist Magazine: https://magazine.atavist.com/murder-adx-florence-fbi-mexican-mafia
The city’s Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated the onetime lawyer to the president.
via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html
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