My exposé of the impact of Trump’s golf courses in Scotland has been suppressed with legal threats … until now
Here in Britain we like to think our journalism is free from control by those with power and money. Sadly that’s not always the case. I have spent years trying to release a film about Donald Trump and have witnessed the corrosive power his money has over freedom of expression – both in the UK and the US.
In 2016, when the Mail Online reported on a “92-year-old Scotswoman taking on Trump”, readers were appalled to learn Molly Forbes had to collect water from a nearby stream in a bucket because, she claims, Trump’s construction workers had cut off her supply. The article was accompanied by a disturbing picture of an exhausted Molly, taken from my new documentary You’ve Been Trumped Too, which was due to be released ahead of the US election.
Here in Britain we like to think our journalism is free from control by those with power and money. Sadly that’s not always the case. I have spent years trying to release a film about Donald Trump and have witnessed the corrosive power his money has over freedom of expression – both in the UK and the US.
In 2016, when the Mail Online reported on a “92-year-old Scotswoman taking on Trump”, readers were appalled to learn Molly Forbes had to collect water from a nearby stream in a bucket because, she claims, Trump’s construction workers had cut off her supply. The article was accompanied by a disturbing picture of an exhausted Molly, taken from my new documentary You’ve Been Trumped Too, which was due to be released ahead of the US election.
- 7/16/2020
- by Anthony Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
A corporate-sponsored disco rave from the happiest recesses of hell, “Trolls” tells the incredible true story of what happened when DreamWorks Animation got really thirsty for that “Minions” money on the same day that a disgruntled former employee decided to spike the entire company’s water supply with massive amounts of ecstasy. Don’t believe what the lame-stream media tells you: that’s definitely what happened. How else to explain this manic rainbow orgy of glitter farts and poop cupcakes? How else to explain how a series of plastic figurines become the basis for a deliriously psychedelic jukebox musical that reinterprets Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” as a veiled attack against the pharmaceutical industry?
Needless to say, Thomas Dam — the Danish woodcutter who created those wild-haired Troll Dolls for his daughter in 1959, and died a very wealthy man in 1988 — is about to give a whole new meaning to the expression: “Rolling in his grave.
Needless to say, Thomas Dam — the Danish woodcutter who created those wild-haired Troll Dolls for his daughter in 1959, and died a very wealthy man in 1988 — is about to give a whole new meaning to the expression: “Rolling in his grave.
- 10/31/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
If you walk into a Karan Johar film expecting subtlety, the joke is on you. The director has made a successful, nearly 20-year career out of using his films as vehicles to showcase stunning places, gorgeous people, and grand emotions. His unabashed preference of style (often over substance) and lavishness over logic has come to define his brand of cinema, so much so that audiences not only let him get away with it, but even look forward to his inflated-in-every-way productions by now.
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But even being adequately prepared isn’t enough to keep us from feeling drained from his latest release, “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.” A film that Johar has admitted has been heavily inspired by his own experiences with love and rejection, its story follows Ayan (Ranbir Kapoor), an aspiring singer who hasn’t yet experienced the...
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But even being adequately prepared isn’t enough to keep us from feeling drained from his latest release, “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.” A film that Johar has admitted has been heavily inspired by his own experiences with love and rejection, its story follows Ayan (Ranbir Kapoor), an aspiring singer who hasn’t yet experienced the...
- 10/30/2016
- by Anisha Jhaveri
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch is having busy final months of 2016 with the roll-out of this weekend's Cannes doc Gimme Danger, featuring rock band The Stooges and its frontman Iggy Pop, ahead of his next feature Paterson in December. An Amazon/Magnolia release, Gimme Danger is one of a few non-fiction features hitting theaters this weekend. Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter is opening You've Been Trumped Too, a follow-up of sorts to his 2011 feature You've Been Trumped, while…...
- 10/28/2016
- Deadline
Judd Apatow is no fan of Donald Trump. Asked for his thoughts on the Republican nominee for president, the “Knocked Up” and “Trainwreck” director called Trump “the worst America has to offer” in an email to IndieWire’s Graham Winfrey earlier today.
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“He doesn’t care about anyone but himself in a pathological way,” Apatow continued. “I don’t think he has any interest in helping people. He is just a bored rich man who has a lust for power.”
Here’s the rest of his statement:
“He has never shown any interest in charity or sacrificing for others during his entire life. I don’t believe he has suddenly woken up and decided he has concerns for our working class. He is a racist, narcissistic criminal who has always been willing to take every penny he can squeeze out of people,...
Read More: Judd Apatow Says ‘Ghostbusters’ Haters Are Probably Donald Trump Supporters
“He doesn’t care about anyone but himself in a pathological way,” Apatow continued. “I don’t think he has any interest in helping people. He is just a bored rich man who has a lust for power.”
Here’s the rest of his statement:
“He has never shown any interest in charity or sacrificing for others during his entire life. I don’t believe he has suddenly woken up and decided he has concerns for our working class. He is a racist, narcissistic criminal who has always been willing to take every penny he can squeeze out of people,...
- 10/26/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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