‘Out Of My Mind’ Star Phoebe-Rae Taylor & Director Amber Sealey On Championing And Normalizing Disability Stories; “People With Disabilities Are So Much More Than Their Appearance”

‘Out Of My Mind’ Star Phoebe-Rae Taylor & Director Amber Sealey On Championing And Normalizing Disability Stories; “People With Disabilities Are So Much More Than Their Appearance”

The Disney+ original movie Out of My Mind, based on the novel of the same name by Sharon M. Draper, follows preteen Melody Brooks (Phoebe-Rae Taylor), a girl with cerebral palsy. Melody has a sharp mind, but due to her being non-verbal and using a wheelchair, she is not given the same academic opportunities as…

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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Nears $800M Global, ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’ Tops $450M & ‘Ballerina’ Bows To $51M WW – International Box Office

‘Lilo & Stitch’ Nears 0M Global, ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’ Tops 0M & ‘Ballerina’ Bows To M WW – International Box Office

Refresh for latest…: Disney’s Lilo & Stitch continued to sew up strong business in its third weekend, with the global cume now at $772.6M as it closes in on $800M WW in the coming days. The international box office tally through Sunday is $436.8M after a $67.7M offshore frame (-47%).  Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The…

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‘Paradise Records’ Review: Rapper Logic’s Anarchic Stoner Hangout Movie Brings Jay And Silent Bob Out Of Retirement – Tribeca Festival

‘Paradise Records’ Review: Rapper Logic’s Anarchic Stoner Hangout Movie Brings Jay And Silent Bob Out Of Retirement – Tribeca Festival

American rapper Logic was born the year Richard Linklater’s Slacker came out, and, at the age of four, was thus unlikely to catch Kevin Smith’s Clerks when Miramax first released it back in 1994. Nevertheless, though the director cites Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon as a prime source of inspiration, those two lowest-of-the-early-’90s-lo-fi films – with…

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Southern states brace for storms after deadly system Saturday

Southern states brace for storms after deadly system Saturday

Some states in the South are bracing for further rounds of severe storms after a weekend system killed at least one person in Georgia. According to the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), the person died in Banks County when a tree fell on a car, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service (NWS)…

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House speaker says deploying Marines in Los Angeles not “heavy-handed”

House speaker says deploying Marines in Los Angeles not “heavy-handed”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s call to place active-duty U.S. Marines near Los Angeles on “high alert” amid ongoing protests, saying during a Sunday interview appearance on ABC News that the move is not “heavy-handed.” Newsweek has reached out to Johnson for comment via email on Sunday. Why…

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