Film forum off topic/random chat thread

Doug Liman lined up to reboot The Saint and a good choice to play The Saint as well in Rege-Jean Page.

Tom Cruise very publicly is backing his agent after CAA demoted her for comments.

I guess they weren't brave enough to fire her in case Cruise walked with her.

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As bad as these decisions look at the moment, I've a feeling they'll look even worse before too long.

The US coverage is just insane in how myopic and contradictory it is, coming as quickly as it is after having the completely opposite response to what was happening in Ukraine. On the ground here though there's an increasingly angry and disenfranchised sentiment around both government parties - been absolutely massive pro-Palestine/ceasefire rallies all around California.

'Saltburn' and 'Dream Scenario' are both out at the moment, look great, and aren't too long, or horror.

Also, if you don't mind occasional subtitles (though a hefty chunk of it is in English anyway), I can't recommend 'Anatomy of a Fall' highly enough - best film i've seen this year so far, tied with Past Lives. Now, it is long enough, but I really didn't feel the length at all.

Barrera was posting about the situation for a few weeks so was bound to mistep in her language. Referring to gaza as a concentration camp probably did her. It's a pity the sister dynamic in the new scream movies were probably the most interesting aspect to me.

Hopefully jenna leaves the franchise too and it finally ends. They treated the exit of neve Campbell badly too. I can't say the overall storyline ever grabbed me.

Scream especially with its turn over of scream queens can just kill off these characters, off screen and pluck the next generation of scream queens from TV shows like they have done in the past. I'm sure there are plenty of young actresses who would jump at the chance to star in a Scream movie

If its true fair play to Ortega for sticking by her castmate.

The ADL is nothing more than an NGO smear group and it's been that way since Foxman was the head of it. In fact it's been that way since the 70's you could say. The so called "anti" Defamation League was even taken to court...for defamation...and they were found guilty. They've been at the forefront of pushing this idea that there's a "new" anti-Semitism which basically constitutes any criticism at all of Israel as a state actor, and not showing enough deference to that state or Jews in general. The "anti" Defamation League exists to libel and defame people and has spied on figures such as Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and even foreign diplomats visiting the US. They were partly responsible, along with Alan Dershowitz, for Finkelstein losing his position at a Chicago University because he dared to point out Israel's (and others) historical exploitation of the holocaust as a deflection against legitimate criticism of contemporary actions. Finkelstein even had to face scurrilous and baseless accusations of being a "holocaust denier", even though his father was in Auschwitz and his mother was in Majdanek during the war and many members of his family were murdered by the Nazis.

People like Foxman have said that the organisation can do whatever it wants in its efforts to combat "anti-Semitism", which is why they've been eager to constantly redefine what "anti-Semitism" actually means. Thus, it has become this elastic, nebulous, cloud of everything and nothing at the same time.

AIPAC, also, is a group that has way, waaaay, too much power in American affairs and it's beyond time that they were neutered to a large degree. They exist solely as a mouthpiece for Israel and abandon all other concern and, as a group, have leaned into support for extremist Republican figures and their platforms, which makes them and active danger to the US body politic. During the Democratic Primaries they poured millions of dollars into smear campaigns that were designed to derail Democratic candidates who were deemed to have spoken up for Palestinian rights and endorsed Trumpist figures like Elise Stefanik, who's been accused of promoting the "great replacement theory", which in itself is used by actual anti-Semites as a slur against Jews.

This is the Orwellian state of US politics with regards to Israel. Black is white, up is down. Nothing makes a lick of sense and behind it all are organisations and people who use a veneer of righteous concern about anti-Semitism to further a purely political agenda. Organisations which possess a malevolent reach into people's lives that should be far beyond their gift.

Some high up producer obviously jumped the gun but they won't back down now. Probably offer a pile of cash for Neve Campbell to return now. Hope the next movie crashes and Burns.