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2 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
The students sat in the hallway outside the classroom on this late January morning, their gently used editions of mass comm staple Media & Culture propped open as they furiously flicked through the pages. Like most college professors, I was prepared for this semester’s first round of textbook pushback.
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2 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
With Yellowstone and its endless line of spinoffs, Taylor Sheridan revived the cowboy as the quintessential presence on popular television. But, the westerns that once defined Hollywood at home and abroad have yet to make their comeback, much less reclaim their glory as the American movies’ greatest genre. In an industry so fueled by franchise IP, most would shy away from the type of midbudget frontier flicks upon which Hollywood built itself.
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2 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Captain America: Brave New World(Disney+) Marvel’s winter hit clearly suffered some fallout from the 2023 Writers’ Strike, but Anthony Mackie proves himself a worthy successor to the OG Cap in this more grounded espionage-centric entry. Watch the newly-minted Sam Wilson don the shield and take on a group of assassins gunning for Harrison Ford’s gruffly charming President.
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3 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
In 1975, American moviegoers saw Keith Carradine’s Tom Frank on the Exit/In stage, plucking the melancholy ballad “I’m Easy.” During his character’s time in town, the nomadic lothario not only bedded an LA interloper (Shelley Duvall) and a grating BBC correspondent (Geraldine Chaplin), but his bandmate, Mary (Cristina Raines). As if that weren’t enough, he’s trying to make it with Linnea (Lily Tomlin), a married gospel singer.
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3 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
For years, Kash Pramod Patel has fantasized about remaking the F.B.I. “in his own image.” At least that’s what The New York Times’s Adam Goldman reported this weekend in his article, “Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials.” Citing Patel’s 2023 book Government Gangsters: The Deep State, The Truth, and The Battle for Our Democracy, Goldman recounts the new F.B.I. director’s attempt to dismiss political partisans and find the sources of leaks with polygraphs.
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3 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
The Accountant 2 (Prime) Ben Affleck reprises his role as the autistic bookkeeper for the criminal underworld, who teams up with his assassin brother (Jon Bernthal) to break open a conspiracy in the ultimate mashup of buddy movie and Deep State paranoid thriller. Premieres on 6/5. Family Ties(Paramount+) Given Gen Z’s MAGA turn, now is as good a time as any to revisit the exploits of Reaganite teen Alex P. Keaton and his recovering hippie parents. The show that made Michael J.
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3 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
“Take those shits off!” undergrad film student Colette Unger (Ivy Wolk) screams to the few lonely maskers at a March 2021 wedding reception in Southern California. While Wolk doesn’t show up until nearly an hour into The Code, director Eugene Kotlyarenko’s first feature film since the pandemic, the actress as known for her supporting turn in Anora as her perpetual cancellation status, somehow manages to show audiences a version of SoCal that has never graced movie screens.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
When Jesus Revolutionbecame a surprise box-office hit in 2023, Franklin film studio Kingdom Story Company kicked off a run of bigscreen faith-based projects that challenged the reputation of a genre that had become a punchline even to the most devout.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Novocaine (Paramount+) Jack Quaid stars as a mild-mannered bank branch assistant manager who goes HAM on the gang that took his crush hostage after a botched robbery. Thing is, he has a disability that prevents him from feeling pain. A hilarious, well-written jolt of action comedy about getting past the beta life.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
While the MAGA faithful and the TDS afflicted spent the last four months glued to screens, Allegra Dru Milisitz was holed up in an upstate New York farmhouse with three strangers making friendship bracelets. But the model, magazine publisher, and breakout star of the Food Network’s 2023 series Worst Cooks in America isn’t a Luddite or emulator of the Amish way of life. She was just making a second run at the reality TV life on Greg Gutfeld’s new Fox Nation game show, What Did I Miss?
