"Some have suggested that modern America doesn’t have issues sufficiently contentious to provide such a spark. I’m not so sure."
Alex Garland's "Civil War" fended off incursions from new movies to retain its box office title for the second weekend in a row. The provocative film, from independent A24, is expected to generate about $11.1 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada through Sunday, bringing its total domestic box gross to $44.9 million, according to Comscore. The R-rated dystopian thriller, also written by Garland, stars Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura as journalists in a near-future time...
After the fan favorite episode "Onesies" suggested Brandy was dealing with fertility issues, her pregnancy in "The Sign" was a sweet moment.
Civil War dropped 56.4% from last weekend's $25.5 million debut to win for a second straight weekend with an estimated $11.1 million, via Box Office Mojo. It managed to hold off Universal's Abigail, which debuted in second place with an estimated $10.2 million. Given how close both films are, it's possible they may switch places when the final numbers are released on Monday
The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project, launched today, lists all of the combatant and civilian fatalities in the Irish Civil War.
The dystopian thriller “Civil War” has been the No. 1 film at the U.S. box office for the last two weekends. But viewers, liberals and conservatives alike, should be aware that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s propagandists are hoping that a second American Civil War actually happens. After the House approved the $61 billion Ukraine aid package on Saturday, the hawkish former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote on Telegram: “I cannot...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]
Erik Larson offers in his latest work a close look at slavery, antebellum Charleston, and the cause of the War of the Rebellion.
The new film Civil War is a historic cinematic achievement. British director Alex Garland has made a movie that might be worse than a real American civil war. Perhaps that was Garland’s intention. His film is a series of horrifying set pieces—Abu Ghraib-style torture by gas station attendants, government aerial bombings of civilians, summary execution of journalists, a massive California and Texas invasion of Washington, D.C.—that seem to add up to a warning. If we don’t steer away from our...
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A24 used AI-generated posters of war-torn American cities to promote Alex Garland's "Civil War," and audiences are not happy.