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1 week ago | 
bizpacreview.com | Kevin Haggerty |John Bosley |Stephen Russell
Any lingering doubts about the coordinated lawfare against President Donald Trump were summarily squashed by one Democratic politician. “This actually isn’t a secret…”Over a little more than 90 days, the Trump administration has been met with nearly 200 legal challenges, according to Just Security’s count. However, looking into dark money connections to sort out the coordination was wholly unnecessary, as California Rep.
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1 month ago | 
bizpacreview.com | Vivek Saxena |Stephen Russell
A man on X has gone viral for defending legendary mixed martial artist Conor McGregor and other Irishmen who are frustrated by the rampant immigration affecting their home country. Appearing in the White House briefing room on Monday, McGregor alleged that Ireland is “on the cusp of losing its Irishness” because of an “illegal immigration racket” that’s overrunning the country. “Our government has long since abandoned the voices of the people of Ireland,” he said.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.co.uk | Steve Newall |Matt Glasby |Liam Maguren |Stephen Russell
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Stephen Knight’s latest (another historical crime outing), A Thousand Blows. “I am beyond men,” growls Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), the leader of an all-female gang of Victorian thieves, in the opening episode of A Thousand Blows. Forget strong female characters, or even complex female characters for just a moment—how about one that can scare the shit out of you?
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2 months ago | 
bizpacreview.com | Larry Elder |Stephen Russell
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
flicks.co.uk | Stephen Russell |Liam Maguren |Steve Newall |Luke Buckmaster
Lengthy, weighty and visually enormous, The Brutalist is a big swing for the fences. Stars Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones join Rory Doherty to discuss the ambitious awards contender. The Brutalist Coming to Cinemas - 24 January Independently of each other, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones describe Brady Corbet’s epic, 70mm shot, capitalist critiquing, period drama The Brutalist to me as a love triangle.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
bizpacreview.com | Sierra Marlee |Stephen Russell
Sen. Adam Schiff has not yet gotten over January 6, 2021, and is still banging on about it on X and in NBC interviews. On the 4th anniversary of Jan 6., and after the American people reelected President-elect Donald Trump, Schiff took to social media in an attempt to make some sort of point. Look:“Today, there will be no organized objection to the results of a free and fair election by the sitting President, no mob that marches on the Capitol at the incitement of the President,” he wrote.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
stephenarussell.substack.com | Stephen Russell
Porn can be political, and it absolutely should be communal, argues Bruce LaBruce, the provocateur prince of Canadian cinema who has delivered both the sacred and profane in far-out films from Super 8 ½ to LA Zombie via Hustler White, The Misandrists to Saint Narcisse. “My favourite porn is ’70s porn, when it used to be shot on film and was watched at the cinema,” he says. “It was a group experience, and I think that was great, because there was less shame involved.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
flicks.co.nz | Stephen Russell
Peter Dinklage stars alongside Brendan Fraser and Josh Brolin for “going straight” crime comedy Brothers. From the director of Palms Springs, it’s the kind of harmless fun that used to bring queues to cinemas writes Stephen A Russell. Both Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin—the leads of amiably goofball crime caper Brothers—have appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and attendant wings) not once, but twice.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Stephen Russell
Emerging from a cab in late September last year, I was more than a little bemused. Rather than alighting at a movie sound stage, the “studio” for Adam Elliot’s latest stop-animation film, Memoir of a Snail, was actually a former Cotton On store in a semi-deserted Docklands shopping mall.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
stephenarussell.substack.com | Stephen Russell
First up, thanks ever so much for joining me here on Orion’s Shoulder. Please share this with all your mates and encourage them to sign up for movie chat and other artistic meanderings. I named the joint after Rutger Hauer’s memorably buffed-up ‘Tears in the Rain’ monologue in Blade Runner, as Deckard’s mortal enemy Roy Batty offers a little advice on life while in the process of shutting down and shuffling off this mortal coil. You know what sits on Orion’s shoulder?
