The Jam Handy Organization continued producing films into the 1960s, amassing some 7,000 films over 40 years. Ray Ashley (a.k.a. Raymond Abrashkin) shot this film on a tiny budget and with a cast of non-actors. Seven year-old Richie Andrusco—who would never appear in another film—stars as Lennie, the title character. The victim of a cruel and frightening trick perpetrated by his brother and his brother’s friends, Lennie flees his New York apartment and takes refuge amidst the sights and sounds of Coney Island.
Despite opposition from his studio, the Hays Office and the liquor industry, Wilder created a film ranked as one of the best of the decade that won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Direction, Screenplay and Actor , and established him as one of America’s leading filmmakers. Frank Capra’s big-budget romantic fantasy “Lost Horizon” offered an emotional respite to an American public seeking escape from the Depression and yearning for their own personal utopias. In the story, dashing diplomat Ronald Colman and a group of plane passengers are kidnapped and taken for mysterious reasons to a remote valley in the Himalayas where they find a seemingly blissful paradise, refuge from a world on the precipice of war. Along with memorable adventure, “Lost Horizon” stands out for its stunning cinematography and fantastic, extravagant sets, a hallmark of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Nobody , a government operative, enlists Dominic Toretto to find a hacker who has created God’s Eye, a device that can hack any technology that uses a camera. In return, they can use the device to find and stop Deckard Shaw , who is seeking revenge against Toretto and his crew for his comatose brother. 2014 — Transcendence — Dr. Will Caster, renowned artificial intelligence researcher, is on a controversial quest to create a fully sentient machine, but are the dangerous consequences that follow worth it? This science-fiction thriller stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, and Paul Bettany, among others. The Hackers Wars — This documentary discusses hacktivism in the United States, including the government’s surveillance and persecution of hackers and journalists.
Based on personal papers and remembrances by family and friends, this biography of the coach, memorably played by Pat O’Brien, is considered less a factual document than a loving tribute to a man for whom many Americans felt a sentimental attachment. Ronald Reagan portrays player George Gipp who dies prematurely and prompts the screen Rockne to inspire his team with the often quoted line, “Let’s win this one for the Gipper,” a slogan Ronald Reagan would later adopt as a catchphrase during his presidency. In producer/director upass reviews Robert Aldrich’s “Kiss Me Deadly,” the life of private detective Mike Hammer is turned upside down when he picks up a female hitchhiker and finds himself catapulted into a hunt for a coveted mystery item. Based on the novel of the same name by Mickey Spillane, “Kiss Me Deadly” blends classic film noir techniques and subjects with Cold War, science fiction-inspired events. The film was initially released with one ending but subsequent releases have occasionally featured an alternative ending.
In May 2015, Kadyrov gave a stern televised lecture to a group of Chechen men and women who were accused of using the WhatsApp messaging service to comment on the impending marriage of local police chief to a teenage girl some three decades younger than him. The wedding had been widely discussed across Russia on reports that the young woman, Kheda Goylabiyeva, was being coerced into marriage with the chief, Nazhud Guchigov. On 20 December 2017, the United States imposed sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on five Russian nationals including Kadyrov, accusing him of personal involvement in repression, torture and murder. U.S. officials accused him of heading “an administration involved in disappearances and extrajudicial killings,” and that one or more of his political opponents were killed at his direction. He was added to United States Department of the Treasury’s blacklist which also included a Chechen security official Ayub Kataev along with three other Russian individuals for their criminal involvement in a corruption case uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky.