Uri Movie Quotes

A movie screening of Before Midnight? A Richard Linklater classic for sure, but watching a movie with a group doesn’t mean you connect with anyone; the only people talking are on-screen. That one goes in the bottom-right corner—high likelihood she’d enjoy it, low likelihood of interaction. Eventually, we discovered a book club discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates, the award-winning journalist who writes about culture, politics, and social issues. Ding-ding-ding. Alicia was a huge fan of his work. And book clubs are all about interaction.

Sinwar was jailed in 1989 for murdering five Palestinians who were suspected of collaborating with Israel. Three were tortured first. Israeli security officials said that at least one of the five had nothing to do with Israel, and was killed for making pornographic movies and for alleged sex crimes with young girls.

His [Michael Kinsley’s] point was that the National Book Award is little more than a popularity contest, as the Pulitzer Prize no doubt is as well…the clique that controls the process looks to advance certain themes, all of which seem to cluster inside certain ideological zip codes…before the 2024 Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…officially changed the rules. From now on, to qualify for the Best Picture award, “diversity in hiring…is considered. So is the movie’s plot.” The academy…now receives less than half the ratings it did just ten years ago. The only thing surprising about this is that people are surprised.