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News Speak No Evil Absolutely Nothing Good Happens in the Countryside in the New Trailer for Speak No Evil Do not accept invitations from this man. By Molly Templeton | Published on July 24, 2024 Screenshot: Blumhouse Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Blumhouse When a horror movie trailer is this effectively unnerving without ever even showing anything truly horrifying—other than the impressively alarming shiftiness of James McAvoy’s face—you have to wonder what further terrors are waiting in the full-length film. Speak No Evil, a remake of the 2022 Danish original, stars McAvoy as Paddy, a doctor (suuuuure) who invites a delightful and clearly unsuspecting family to visit his country home. His wife (Aisling Franciosi) is very young, his kid doesn’t (can’t) talk, and the family’s idea of social graces is, shall we say, lacking. Being no fool, Louise (Mackenzie Davis), her husband Ben (Scoot McNairy), and their daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler) decide to split, which goes about as well as you might imagine—and then things get much, much worse. It’s not exactly clear why Paddy is so into tormenting his guests, though at one point in the trailer McAvoy says, “I’ve always wanted a family like yours.” Want could imply a lot of things in that sentence. Speak No Evil is directed by James Watkins (The Woman in Black), who also wrote the screenplay (based on the original by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup). Let James McAvoy invite you into theaters on September 13th. Yes, it’s a Friday.[end-mark] The post Absolutely Nothing Good Happens in the Countryside in the New Trailer for Speak No Evil appeared first on Reactor.

News Borderlands Cate Blanchett Wonders How Are We Gonna Get Through This in Final Borderlands Trailer We’re weeks away from the film’s premiere and bunnies are exploding. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on July 24, 2024 Credit: Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate Eli Roth’s feature based on the Borderlands video game franchise is set to come out in mere weeks, and to celebrate the occasion, Lionsgate released a final trailer today. The movie, which stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, and Jamie Lee Curtis, centers on a motley crew looking to make a big score on the worst planet ever. This latest trailer also includes an explosive bunny, a whole lot of monster pee, and a red-headed Blanchett clearly fed up with it all. The film comes from Gearbox Studios / 2K, which created and published the video game, as well as producers Ari Arad, Avi Arad, and Erik Feig. It’s distributed by Lionsgate. Here’s the film’s official synopsis: Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Ramírez), the universe’s most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland (Hart), a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound protector; Tannis (Curtis), the oddball scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap (Black), a wiseass robot. Together, these unlikely heroes must battle an alien species and dangerous bandits to uncover one of Pandora’s most explosive secrets. The fate of the universe could be in their hands—but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other. Borderlands premieres in theaters on August 9, 2024. Tickets are on sale now, and you can check out the final trailer below. [end-mark] The post Cate Blanchett Wonders How Are We Gonna Get Through This in Final <i>Borderlands</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Student test scores are continuing to fall four years after schools moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study released Tuesday by testing company Northwest Evaluation Association. The study found that gaps in academic performance between today’s students and their pre-pandemic counterparts are widening, despite the record $190 billion in federal aid distributed to schools since the pandemic began. The findings—which were divulged from an analysis of test results from the 2023-24 school year for approximately 7.7 million students between the third and eighth grades—also come two years after experts had claimed a recovery in education was underway.  “At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote the study’s authors, Karyn Lewis and Megan Kuhfeld. “Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer supports this conclusion.” The Northwest Evaluation Association’s analysis found that the gap with pre-COVID-19 results for sixth graders in math and English grew by 40% and 31%, respectively, between the fall of 2023 and the spring of 2024. The study also found that the average eighth grader today requires approximately nine months of additional schooling to reach pre-COVID-19 levels in the two subjects. A similar—albeit less extreme—trend was found for younger students, with third graders requiring 1.3 additional months of schooling to catch up in math and 2.2 more months to catch up in reading. Some researchers believe the continued drop off in academic performance is a result of chronic absenteeism as the mean number of students missing 10% or more of school days has risen from 15% in the 2017-18 school year to 28% in the 2021-22 school year, according to a study from the American Enterprise Institute. The AEI study also found that “using the most recent data for the 2022–23 school year … even after the pandemic subsided drastically, the elevated rates of chronic absenteeism fell very little.” Poor academic performance has persisted despite the $122 billion distributed to U.S. public schools in 2021 alone, which schools must spend by September, according to K-12 education news outlet Education Week. “We’re a long way from pre-pandemic levels of student achievement,” Dan Goldhaber, an education researcher at the American Institutes for Research and the University of Washington, told The Washington Post. Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation The post Student Test Scores Still Falling Despite Hundreds of Billions in Federal Pandemic Aid for Schools appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Hundreds of premade anti-Israel signs were waiting near the U.S. Capitol as demonstrators prepared Wednesday to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest visit to America. Netanyahu was scheduled to address a joint session of Congress at 2 p.m. EDT regarding U.S. efforts to help settle the 9-month-old Israel-Hamas war.  Israel has sought to eradicate Hamas since Oct. 7, when the U.S.-designated terrorist organization invaded southern Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages.  Sponsored by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, some of the anti-Israel signs at the Capitol read: “Wanted by the Whole World: War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu for Crimes Against Humanity.”  The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s website declares that members are united in their “belief that capitalism … is the source of the main problems confronting humanity today.”  Hundreds of premade signs, some saying “WANTED BY THE WHOLE WORLD WAR CRIMINAL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU,” sponsored by the Party for Socialism and Liberation not far from the Capitol ahead of today’s pro-Palestine protest pic.twitter.com/e8OfcKVuew— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) July 24, 2024 The ANSWER Coalition, the organization whose website is listed on some of the anti-Israel signs, went public three days after the 9/11 terror attacks in America in opposition to the U.S. invading Afghanistan or Iraq. Since 2002, the group says, it has demonstrated “for social justice at home and in opposition to war and occupation abroad.”    Shut it Down for Palestine, another group protesting at the Capitol, advises participants to “wear kuffiyehs” and “black armbands,” and to “picket Israeli embassies and consulates.”  It also advises picketing “companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine,” a disputed characterization of the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, and specifies Boeing and Raytheon among many others.  According to a Heritage Foundation report released last month, the structure of organizations facilitating the anti-Israel protests is essentially the same as those that supported the Black Lives Matter-sponsored protests and riots in 2020. Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage policy expert in national security who co-authored the report with intern Mary Mobley, wrote that antisemitic, anti-Israel protesters may alter the U.S. in “profound” and possibly permanent ways, just as BLM did, through “this revolutionary ecosystem.” More and more enemies of the U.S., including China, Cuba, and Venezuela, are “enmeshed in this protesting infrastructure,” Gonzalez and Mobley noted. The post Hundreds of Signs Readied as Anti-Israel Protesters Gather at Capitol for Netanyahu Visit  appeared first on The Daily Signal.