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News The Man in My Basement Willem Dafoe Is a Terrible Tenant in The Man in My Basement Trailer Hulu’s Walter Mosley adaptation arrives later this year. By Molly Templeton | Published on June 6, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share One has to admit that it’s a dubious, if financially lucrative, proposal: Let a total stranger rent your basement for 65 days at a cost of $1,000 per day. Oh, P.S., you can’t tell anyone about him. Dicey. Very dicey. And even this very brief teaser makes clear that there is something very wrong with the man (Willem Dafoe) who wants to rent the basement belonging to Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins). The Man in My Basement is based on the 2005 novel by Walter Mosley, and its synopsis gives a few more clues as to what’s going on here: The man at Charles Blakey’s door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles’s basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement view. There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles does not need any more trouble. But financial necessity leaves him no choice. Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a role he never dreamed of. Anniston has some very particular requests for his landlord, and try as he might, Charles cannot avoid being lured into Bennet’s strange world. At first he resists, but soon he is tempted — tempted to understand a set of codes that has always eluded him, tempted by the opportunity to understand the secret ways of white folks.Charles’s summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature. The movie is the feature film debut of theater director Nadia Latif; she and Mosley wrote the screenplay together. Latif told Entertainment Weekly, “I haven’t stopped thinking about the novel since I first read it 20 years ago.” Actor Hawkins told the magazine, “A script centered on blackness in middle-class Sag Harbor in the ’90s is loaded with cultural significance. I love that Nadia honored all of that and was willing to deconstruct the script with us, interrogate it, and put it back together — all of the ugly, all of the beauty. She took the essence of Mosley’s novel and distilled it into something very unique.” The Man in My Basement arrives in theaters and on Hulu this fall.[end-mark] The post Willem Dafoe Is a Terrible Tenant in <i>The Man in My Basement</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

While negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program appear to have made little progress, Iran is further arming itself, a new report indicates.   Iran has ordered materials for ballistic missiles from China as it seeks to bolster its military amid ongoing talks with the U.S. over its nuclear program, according to The Wall Street Journal.   China is sending shipments of ammonium perchlorate, a substance used in explosives, to Iran, people familiar with the purchase told the journal. The explosive material could be used in hundreds of ballistic missiles and is expected to arrive in the coming months. Iran may be planning to give some of the material to the Houthis in Yemen, according to the journal.   Iran is “increasing its military collaboration with China to rearm after Israeli strikes last year,” Robert Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. “The latest purchases would dramatically expand their offensive capacity to threaten Israel, U.S. forces, our partners and allies, and potentially disrupt global energy markets.”   Meanwhile, Iran has continued to enrich uranium and either already has or is very close to reaching nuclear weapons grade enrichment levels, according to the Heritage expert.   The U.S. and Iran remain engaged in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program but both sides appear to hold conflicting nonnegotiable standards for a deal.   President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and following reports of a deal that would allow for some uranium enrichment to continue in Iran, Trump said any deal with Iran will ban all enrichment.   But Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi wrote on X Wednesday: “No enrichment, no deal. No nuclear weapons, we have a deal.”   Time is one of the key factors in the negotiations between Iran and the U.S., according to Greenway. Each day that goes by without a deal is another day Iran can continue enrichment.   “Iran is exploiting the negotiations to radically increase uranium enrichment,” Greenway said, citing a recent International Atomic Energy Agency report.   When discussions first began between Iran and the U.S. on April 12, the Trump administration set a deadline of two months to reach an agreement, making the deadline next week.   Israel has assured the U.S. it will not carry out preemptive strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities while talks between the U.S. and Iran are ongoing, Axios reports. While Israel has the ability to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities, Greenway says it would require U.S. involvement to carry out a strike large enough to effectively neutralize Iran’s nuclear threat. While there are fears a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could trigger a war, a recent report from The Heritage Foundation contended history has proven that such preemptive strikes usually do not result in a broader regional conflict. The post Iran Turns to China for Ballistic Missile Materials as Nuclear Threat Grows appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his radio broadcast to an anxious nation. Earlier that day, he had held a press conference for 180 reporters about the D-Day invasion. About its scale and seriousness. Special editions of newspapers across the country led with a similar headline: The war in Europe had begun. Our soldiers, airmen and seamen, Americans learned that day, were embarked on an invasion of massive proportions to liberate the European Continent from Adolf Hitler’s war machine. They crawled out of the sea and dropped from the sky—160,000 Allied troops in all landed along a heavily fortified, 50-mile stretch of French coastline, supported by more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft. The stakes could not have been higher: The fate of the free world hung in the balance. By that evening, a solemnity fell over the country. A stillness. As if the world had suddenly stopped. Churches filled up. Families huddled together. Roosevelt was finally ready to address the nation on the true mass medium of the day: radio. Like Winston Churchill, he was a master of the medium, and he understood the gravity of the moment. Roosevelt also understood that it would take more than the mobilization of our industrial power to beat back the forces of Hitler. In this radio address, he hoped to harness our spiritual power, too. Which is why his 535-word, six-minute radio address took the form of a prayer. Roosevelt wrote it with assistance from his daughter, Anna, and her husband and distributed it to newspapers across the country so Americans could pray along with him. At 9:57 that night, Roosevelt’s prayer began: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. Roosevelt then shifted his prayer to the suffering, loss and grief that were likely to come. Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences of war. Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom. Roosevelt then turned to Americans at home, and to their prayer life—and faith walks. O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. This is how Roosevelt ended things. It may be the most powerful and purposeful part of any public address by an American wartime president. With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace, a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.” Over 100 million people worldwide heard Roosevelt’s plea over the airwaves, including many living in Nazi-occupied Europe. One was a teenage Jewish girl sequestered in a secret annex (a small attic) in Amsterdam. When she heard the American president’s voice invoking “almighty God,” it gave her hope. Her name was Anne Frank. “The best part of this news is that I have the feeling friends are approaching,” she wrote in her diary. “We have been oppressed by those terrible Germans for so long that the thought of delivery fills us with confidence. “I may yet be able to go back to school in September or October,” she ended the day’s entry. She never returned to school. She died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945. More than 4.400 Americans never returned home from that opening day of fighting. By the time the battle for Normandy had been won, 29,000 men, mostly young, never returned home One soldier who never came back was John Lapadula, a 17-year-old from West New York, New Jersey. He volunteered for the Army the moment he was old enough to do so. He was my mother’s only brother and her father’s only son. The uncle I never knew. He was one of 416,000 Americans who died defending the world from tyranny by war’s end. America’s industrial strength and our energy resources no doubt played a part in the Allied victory. So did the courage and selflessness of our troops, Black and white and from every ethnic background, along with the sacrifices of millions on the home front, including an army of women known as Rosie the Riveters. But the spiritual power—the prayer power—of our people was a resource too. And it was unleashed by Roosevelt that night in 1944 in what would become America’s largest mass prayer in our history—and world history too. Originally published by Newsweek. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post FDR’s D-Day Prayer: The Largest Mass Prayer in US and World History appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The video’s filmmaker described the scene as “whale willies flapping all over the place.”

The answer is surprisingly close to that of early modern humans.