David Brenner
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Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence...
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Featuring audience-tested highlights from his stand-up shows, Another Terrorist confirms Brenner's conviction that laughter is the best medicine, and if one can laugh, one can live. He riffs on a wide range of issues from the personal to the political. It's hilarity with a healthy dose of humanity and hope, precisely what our nation needed then and needs today.
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Comedy legend David Brenner shows how humor can give us the power to transcend tragedy. On September 11, 2001, David Brenner was in the midst of a 48-week standup comedy gig in Las Vegas. Immediately after the tragic day, he cancelled the engagement and instructed his manager to book him on a nationwide tour. He called it the 'Laughter to the People' tour, and it was to become the most gratifying chapter in his long and distinguished careera nightly...
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Fearing the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on Superman, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. With Batman and Superman fighting each other, a new threat, Doomsday, is created by Lex Luthor. It's up to Superman and Batman to set aside their differences along with Wonder Woman to stop Lex Luthor and Doomsday from destroying Metropolis.
8) Identity
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Ten strangers are brought together at a motel because of a savage rainstorm. All take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they'll have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
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Four years after Chris and Annie Nielsen lose their children in a traffic accident, Chris himself is killed and finds himself reunited with his children in a beautiful and astonishing afterlife, but Annie commits suicide in despair and is banished to a very different realm. Chris risks his own eternal happiness to find Annie and rescue her from her fate.
11) Rent control
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The mad struggle to hold on to their dead aunt Agatha's rent-controlled apartment deteriorates into a struggle for aspiring actors Holly and Calvin to determine the true nature of their relationship, their identities and their future as actors and New Yorkers.
13) The Aristocrats
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Comedy veterans, Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, use their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke. The joke is an old burlesque routine too extreme to be performed in public. It's called The Aristocrats.
14) Deception
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Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant who meets Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer. Bose introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground called The List, which is a mysterious sex club for Manhattan's executives. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy, ' one of betrayal, treachery and murder. But in this new world, Jonathan soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
15) Fear
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Nicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special-- someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David is all that and more: a modern-day knight who charms and seduces her, body and soul. But her perfect boyfriend is not all he seems to be. His sweet facade masks a savage, dark side that will soon transform Nicole's dream into a nightmare.
16) Talk radio
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A venomous radio talk show host from Dallas, Texas utters a reckless, relentless stream of abuse and sarcasm that both titillates and infuriates his audience. Parading his own "honesty," the shock jock grows increasingly bitter, his outrageous cynicism both an emblem of his self-loathing and a temptation to his more disturbed listeners.
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Insightful and often hilarious, it surveys the history of Jewish comedy, from the early days of Borscht Belt to the present, ultimately exploring not just ethnicity in the entertainment industry, but also the entire unruly question of what it means to be Jewish. Popular comedians from the past and present provide an abundance of surprising opinions and witty humor.
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Identity: Ten strangers are brought together at a motel because of a savage rainstorm. All take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they'll have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
Vacancy: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and...
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Un niño aprende que el tiene podéres extraordinarios y que no es de esta Tierra. En su juventud, él viaja para descubrir de dónde viene y qué era lo que tenia que hacer al ser enviado aquí. Pero el héroe en su interior deberá salir si es que quiere salvar al mundo de la aniquilación y convertirse en el simbolo de esperanza para toda la humanidad.
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man,...