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EXCLUSIVE: @TitanBooks will release EVENT HORIZON: THE MAKING OF THE CLASSIC FILM on September 1. Featuring never-before-seen archival material and interviews with the cast and crew, the book from author @JaninePipe28 sheds new light on the making of the 1997 cult classic.

Cunk does Die Hard youtu.be/9tSnVMaz8ag?si… via @YouTube

@RealGDT Congratulations, maestro

Thank you so very much to the BFI!

@elicalebon Equating Khomeini’s theocracy with democratic socialism is false. Social welfare in democracies expands freedom, not control—unlike totalitarianism, it’s debated, accountable, and proven to work in nations that blend capitalism with equality.

Do you know why Khomeini promising free everything—free electricity, free water, free transportation, free housing—was so successful in mobilization the Iranian revolution, just like Mamdani’s “free everything” is mobilizing an American revolution now? Because those promises aren’t about delivery, but the psychology of control. In totalitarian movements, the promise of all things good creates something called an “infallible environment.” The infallible environment or movement is something upon which total moral purity is projected. Nothing is more morally pure than feeding the hungry and housing the unhoused. Once the infallible environment has been constructed, anybody who opposes it is considered morally corrupt. Then, the movement doesn’t have to destroy them. Society erases them as illegitimate. The movement automatically erases every roadblock by its appearance of virtue. “But how do you know that this movement isn’t actually for the betterment of mankind?” Because it’s advancing democratic socialism, which is purely theoretical and has never been achieved because it’s an oxymoron. In reality, the dictionary definition of democratic socialism is the total elimination of capitalism, which means the collapse of liberal democracies, which are the only system under which humans can thrive. In its place, only mass murder and history’s greatest famines have ensued. In the real world, liberal democracies protect the individual’s interest, and individualism is the only buffer against tyranny. The Founding Fathers understood this well, and that is why people vote with their feet to be here more than anywhere else in the world. Not places where the socialist experiment burnt everything to the ground. So do you see the illusion now? The movement that has historically only brought harm is perceived as good, while those fighting to preserve the only thing shown to produce good are reimagined as evil. That’s the psychology of control.

On this day in 1976, Stevie Wonder released “Songs in the Key of Life” What’s your favorite track?

Auction update: people love THE ROCKETEER. Hero helmet, screen-matched jacket and gloves from the 1991 movie sell for $113,400. A practical (!) flame-firing rocket-pack goes for $122,850. (Includes buyer’s premium)

★★★★☆ The Salt Path review — Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on top form ⬇️ #Echobox=1748518208" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/culture/film/a…

The journey begins this Friday. #TheSaltPath

Box office news - ‘The Salt Path’ delivers in first markets screendaily.com/news/final-des…

Good morning we are still alive and we will not give up 🍉🇵🇸✌️

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Let's not forget that Jimmy Carter hosted the greatest jazz concert in the history of Washington, D.C.—or maybe anywhere, for that matter.

Man, let me just tell you, early 19th century men's overcoats are basically their own character in this film. Particularly Willem Dafoe's. 6/25

Young Moviegoers to See Vegan Plea from James Cromwell Ahead of Mufasa: The Lion King peta.org/media/news-rel…

Breathless - A bout de souffle youtu.be/KKiczsXaF1g?si… via @YouTube Martial Solal 😢

THE SUBSTANCE | Q&A with Coralie Fargeat & Guillermo del Toro youtu.be/BKcMm5RG2M4?si… via @YouTube

#TheSaltPath trailer sees The Crown and Harry Potter stars in touching true story Read more: radiotimes.com/movies/the-sal…