Marvel star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeremy-renner">Jeremy Renner</a> will open up about what he went through following his near-fatal snow plow accident on January 1, 2023, near his Nevada home, in an upcoming memoir titled “My Next Breath,&#8221; out April 29.
“Jeremy writes in blistering detail about his accident and the aftermath,&#8221; a synopsis about the 54-year-old actor’s memoir read, per <a href="https://people.com/jeremy-renner-announces-memoir-my-next-breath-exclusive-8778529?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_content=likeshop&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram">People magazine</a>.
&#8220;This retelling is not merely a gruesome account of what happened to him; it’s a call to action and a forged companionship between reader and author as Jeremy recounts his recovery journey and reflects on the impact of his suffering,” the synopsis added.
Publisher Flatiron Books has called the memoir &#8220;gripping,&#8221; &#8220;inspiring,” and said that it promises to be &#8220;a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to endure, evolve and find purpose in the face of unimaginable adversity,” the outlet noted.
Earlier this week, Renner hinted about his book title and what fans could expect in his memoir.
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“Taking care of business; this office of mine has been such a blessing and absolute champion for wellness….,” Renner captioned his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFB8lRcOXAx/">Instagram post</a>. “Hyperbaric at 2 atmos has been a staple in my life for 20 months now. 02 is essential for our life and our longevity…. Pull up a chair and let’s discuss all things good in life today !!!<a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mynextbreath/"> #MyNextBreath</a>.”
Speaking to the outlet about the memoir, Renner said, “two years after my accident I now find myself now surrounded by love, more connected to the people around me and filled with gratitude. I&#8217;m hopeful that by sharing my story, it might help anyone out there who is facing their own moment where it feels like the odds are against them.”
On the two year anniversary of the day he almost died in that accident, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DESxk3tSwVh/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=9cd2e49d-db17-4586-9262-6e6c6136c2d5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Renner </a>wished everyone a “Happy New Year” and said that he was ringing in his second “ReBirthday.” Two years earlier, he had been nearly crushed under a 14,300-pound snowcat in the accident. Following the accident, which left him with more than 30 broken bones, he underwent extensive therapy in order to recover. 
“I send out my love, respect, and gratitude for the army of people that it took to put me back together again,” Renner captioned his post on Instagram, which included an image of him in the hospital after the accident.
“Thank you to each and every nurse, doctor, first responder … I literally owe you my life,” he added. “All my heart goes out to my beautiful, brave nephew and the angels (my neighbors) who jumped to my aid and endured the chaos for 45 long minutes on the icy asphalt New Years morning. I’m so sorry [for] all the haunting images I imprinted on you all (I’ll spare you all from the meat grinding images) …”
“My gratitude list is very long … With the amount of love and prayers that flooded in from you all around the world (needing each and everyone of them), my family never leaving my side, with some divine intervention, a bit of luck and a whole lot of miracles … I stand strong again,” the Marvel star continued. “More Open. More Loved. More Connected. And f**king BLESSED to take my next step, to take MY NEXT BREATH. Thank you with every fiber and cell in my body. I love you ALL”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremy-renner-talks-gratitude-and-rebirth-on-second-anniversary-of-near-fatal-snow-plow-accident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy Renner Talks Gratitude And Rebirth On Second Anniversary Of Near Fatal Snow Plow Accident</a>

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The 2025 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/academy-awards">Academy Awards</a> nominations were announced on Thursday morning. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences delayed the announcement from January 17 due to the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area, which gave members a longer time to vote. 
The 97th Annual Academy Awards will be hosted by stand-up comedian and former late-night host Conan O’Brien. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Oscars</a> ceremony will air live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> on Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET on ABC and Hulu.
The controversial musical crime drama “Emilia Pérez,” a film about a Mexican drug lord who becomes a transgender woman, led the nominations with 13 total nods. “Conclave,” a drama about electing a new pope, earned eight nominations but missed out on a Best Director nomination for Edward Berger and didn&#8217;t get a nod for cinematography, which many insiders had predicted.
“The Brutalist” and “Wicked” each scored 10 nominations. “Conclave” and “A Complete Unknown” received eight, while “Anora” got six.
There were several other notable snubs on the list, including no nomination for Nicole Kidman for her role in “Babygirl” and Angelina Jolie&#8217;s leading part in “Maria.”
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Four out of five Best Actress nominees were nominated for the first time, including Demi Moore, who got a nomination for “The Substance” following her big win at the Golden Globes. 
Meanwhile, Selena Gomez didn’t get a supporting actress nomination for “Emilia Pérez” despite her Golden Globe and British Academy Film Award nods. 
Here is a full list of nominees:
Best Picture
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“I’m Still Here”
“Nickel Boys”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Best Director
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
Best Cinematography
“The Brutalist”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
Best International Feature Film
“I’m Still Here”
“The Girl with the Needle”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
“Flow”
Best Adapted Screenplay
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
Best Original Screenplay
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Real Pain”
“September 5”
“The Substance”
Best Live Action Short Film
“A Lien”
“Anuja”
“I’m Not a Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Best Animated Short Film
“Beautiful Men”
“In the Shadow of the Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
Best Animated Feature Film
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Wallace &amp; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Documentary Short
“Death By Numbers”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Best Documentary Feature Film
“Black Box Diaries”
“No Other Land”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“Sugarcane”
Best Original Song
“El Mal,” from “Emilia Pérez”
“The Journey,” from “The Six Triple Eight”
“Like a Bird,” from “Sing Sing”
“Mi Camino,” from “Emilia Pérez”
“Never Too Late,” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”
Best Original Score
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Best Costume Design
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best Editing
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
Best Sound
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Production Design
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best Visual Effects
“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”

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“Mission: Impossible” director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mission-impossible-director-recounts-weirdest-tom-cruise-story-he-ever-heard">Christopher McQuarrie</a> revealed that a fan “almost had a heart attack” watching a scene from the upcoming final installment in the franchise.
Speaking to Empire Magazine, per <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/mission-impossible-movies/mission-impossible-8-director-says-the-latest-movie-features-the-most-difficult-thing-weve-ever-done-and-its-got-the-perfect-first-reaction-from-an-early-screening-i-almost-had-a-heart-attack/">Games Radar</a>, the 56-year-old director told the outlet that at a recent screening for &#8220;Mission: Impossible &#8212; The Final Reckoning,” the action-packed excitement on the big screen proved to me almost too much for one of the movie-goers.
“We had a small screening, and someone said, ‘I was suffocating throughout the entire sequence. I almost had a heart attack,'&#8221; McQuarrie said<a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/mission-impossible-movies/mission-impossible-8-director-says-the-latest-movie-features-the-most-difficult-thing-weve-ever-done-and-its-got-the-perfect-first-reaction-from-an-early-screening-i-almost-had-a-heart-attack/">.</a> “And I thought, ‘I guess we did something right.'&#8221;
It has been the goal with each of the “M:I” films that the action gets more intense.
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Christopher McQuarrie says an audience member “almost had a heart attack” during an action sequence of ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
&#8220;I thought, ‘I guess we did something right.’&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/cJxPnGvUYV">pic.twitter.com/cJxPnGvUYV</a>
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) <a href="https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1881481289590870327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
And McQuarrie has appeared to confirm that will be the case once again, telling the outlet that the eighth installment features &#8220;the most difficult thing&#8221; they&#8217;ve ever done in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-cruise">Tom Cruise</a>-led series.
But exactly what the scene was that almost sent a fan to the hospital has yet to be revealed.
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In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOhDyUmT9z0&amp;t=1s">first trailer</a> for the upcoming film, there’s a whole host of action sequences, which involve a high-speed car chase and crash, an underwater battle involving a submarine, and Cruise hanging on to the outside of a biplane as it flies upside down, among so many others.
In July 2023, Cruise <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1676622885991972865?s=20">shared</a> behind-the-scenes shots from the seventh installment in the franchise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” that showed how a high-speed train sequence in the movie came together, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-shares-incredible-behind-the-scenes-shots-from-mission-impossible-7">reported</a>.
“This train sequence was tricky, but the outcome made it all worth it,” Cruise wrote at the time about the scene filmed in Norway. “I can’t wait for everyone to see it come to life!”
In the clip, we hear McQuarrie talked about how the movie’s “sense of adventure” would include an action train sequence, something they had “always wanted to do.”
“We wanted to build upon the previous films,” the director said. “And apply all of that knowledge to something practical and real.”
The footage showed outside shots of Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt on top of a train and a warehouse where the shell of a train with different train cars was being built to help them create movie magic.
“We had to build a train if we wanted to destroy it,” McQuarrie said, noting that the cars had to be able to run on a working “railroad track.”
“Mission: Impossible &#8212; The Final Reckoning” hits theaters May 23.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mission-impossible-director-recounts-weirdest-tom-cruise-story-he-ever-heard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Mission: Impossible’ Director Recounts ‘Weirdest’ Tom Cruise Story He Ever Heard</a>

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The annual Golden Raspberry Awards (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Razzies</a>), a contest highlighting the worst <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movies</a> of the year, on Wednesday announced its nominations for every film released in 2024. 
Last year’s biggest flop was “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which led the pack with seven nominations total. Films including “Madame Web,” “Megalopolis,” “Borderlands” and “Reagan” each received six nominations.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” is a musical sequel to the Oscar-nominated “Joker,” which majorly underperformed at the box office, bringing in just $206 million worldwide against a $200 million budget. The film starred Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix, who are both up for Razzies for worst actress and worst actor and for worst screen combo. 
The original “Joker” earned more than $1 billion in 2019, making the failure of the highly anticipated sequel even worse. 
The Razzies voting panel also targeted the pro-conservative film “Reagan” despite the movie being praised by viewers. They nominated actor Jon Voight, who was just named a special ambassador to Hollywood by President Trump, for one of the awards.
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The Razzies were founded in 1981. Nominations are determined by a group of more than 1,200 voters, per <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/razzie-nominations-2025-joker-2-madame-web-borderlands-1236280684/">Variety</a>, and anyone who pays the annual $40 fee or the lifetime membership fee of $500 can count themselves among the voting panel. 
Razzies winners will be announced on Saturday, March 1, the day before the Academy Awards.
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“The Brutalist” director Brady Corbet has responded to the backlash against his choice to use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> in his post World War II era movie to &#8220;preserve the authenticity” of the actors “performances in another language.”
Corbet responded to critics who claimed his movie shouldn’t be up for things like the Academy Awards because the use of AI &#8220;was used not just to enhance Adrien [Brody’s] accent but to design buildings in the movie,” according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-brutalist-ai-backlash-adrien-brody-1236113015/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
“Adrien [Brody] and Felicity’s [Jones] performances are completely their own,” Corbet said in a statement to THR.“They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheBrutalist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheBrutalist</a> is coming under fire online after the film’s editor admitted in an interview some AI was used to enhance the performance of the film’s leads, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones: <a href="https://t.co/ef4TYSdKUL">https://t.co/ef4TYSdKUL</a> <a href="https://t.co/5PR0xrQLO8">pic.twitter.com/5PR0xrQLO8</a>
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1881375567087624203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
“Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy,” he added. “No English language was changed. This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production.”
“The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft,” his statement continued.
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Corbet also responded to accusations that AI was used to create part of the end of the film, which showed a sequence of completed buildings and architectural drawings supposedly designed by Brody’s character, THR noted.
“[The Brutalist production designer] Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or render any of the buildings,” Corbet said. “All images were hand-drawn by artists. To clarify, in the memorial video featured in the background of a shot, our editorial team created pictures intentionally designed to look like poor digital renderings circa 1980.”
The editor of the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8999762/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film</a>, Dávid Jancsó, also responded to the criticism and said that the technology &#8212; from Ukranian specialist Respeecher &#8212; was only used to make the performer’s Hungarian accent sound more authentic, <a href="https://www.redsharknews.com/why-epic-period-drama-movie-the-brutalist-was-shot-on-vistavision">Red Shark News</a> reported.
“I am a native Hungarian speaker and I know that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce,” Jancsó said. “If you’re coming from the Anglo-Saxon world certain sounds can be particularly hard to grasp.”
“We were very careful about keeping their performances. It’s mainly just replacing letters here and there,” he added. “You can do this in ProTools yourself, but we had so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we’d still be in post.”
“It is controversial in the industry to talk about AI, but it shouldn’t be,” Jancsó continued. “We should be having a very open discussion about what tools AI can provide us with. There’s nothing in the film using AI that hasn’t been done before. It just makes the process a lot faster. We use AI to create these tiny little details that we didn’t have the money or the time to shoot.”
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David Lynch, the writer-director whose hallucinogenic films and television shows such as “Eraserhead,” “Mulholland Drive,” and “Twin Peaks” reveled in dreams and darkness, in revealing the mysterious and the sinister teeming just below the surface of ordinary white-picket-fence America has died. He was 78.
New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael called David Lynch “the first populist surrealist — a Frank Capra of dream logic” for his keen ability to bridge mainstream filmmaking and arthouse success. 
Lynch’s family <a href="https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/pfbid04LuZED6SrWevszQ1UZoEED6x95znKc7scJxXFL5B1icBKgCiu4T2qYLHsErFNzELl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his death on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/pfbid04LuZED6SrWevszQ1UZoEED6x95znKc7scJxXFL5B1icBKgCiu4T2qYLHsErFNzELl?rdid=581XjlBlb3GqM8zP#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his Facebook page</a> on Thursday. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” they wrote. “But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
<div id="attachment_860901" style="width: 875px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-860901" class="size-large wp-image-860901" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-52974879-865x576.jpg" alt="LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 01: Filmmaker David Lynch poses for photos in his private movie studio on September 1, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilles Mingasson/Gettty Images)" width="865" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-52974879-865x576.jpg 865w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-52974879-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-52974879-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-52974879.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px" />Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images</div>
Lynch revealed in an interview with <a href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/sight-sound-september-2024-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sight and Sound</a> in 2024, that he was suffering from emphysema after many years of smoking, was housebound, and could only direct any future films remotely. He later posted <a href="https://x.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/1820561669216686367/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> on X amid speculation about his health and career, writing, “I am filled with happiness, and I will never retire.”
Lynch’s smoking habit was almost literally lifelong. A native of Missoula, Montana, Lynch grew up in rural Idaho and Washington and began smoking at the age of 8. He stopped smoking in 2022 after needing supplemental oxygen for anything more difficult than walking across a room and in an interview with <a href="https://people.com/david-lynch-smoking-at-age-8-now-he-needs-oxygen-copd-exclusive-8743594" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People Magazine</a> last year, Lynch said although the consequences of smoking have been “a big price to pay, I don’t regret it. It was important to me. I wish what every addict wishes for: that what we love is good for us.”
A painter turned avant-garde filmmaker, Lynch debuted his first feature “Eraserhead” in 1977. Shot over several years, the black-and-white surrealist horror film tells the story of a bewildered man grappling with the anxieties of fatherhood after the birth of his sickly, grotesque child—a mutant being that scarcely resembles a human infant. 
Initially debuting to limited fanfare, “Eraserhead” gradually built a devoted following through extended runs as a midnight movie, solidifying its status as a cult classic.
Released three years before Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic “The Shining,” “Eraserhead” left an indelible mark on the influential director, who cited Lynch’s debut feature as one of his favorite films. So captivated was Kubrick by Lynch’s unnerving vision that he required his actors and film crew to watch “Eraserhead” before filming started on “The Shining” so that everyone on set was on the same tonal page. 
Another enthusiastic fan was comedian Mel Brooks, who, after seeing “Eraserhead,” hired Lynch to direct his first true Hollywood picture, “The Elephant Man” in 1980. Brooks called Lynch “Jimmy Stewart from Mars,” for his spectrum of wild ideas and dressing as if he had stepped right out of the 1950s, with a messy pompadour and simple outfits of slacks and white dress shirts worn without a tie, buttoned all the way to the top.
<div id="attachment_860893" style="width: 866px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-860893" class="size-large wp-image-860893" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-451084295-856x576.jpg" alt="Actor John Hurt in a scene from the film 'The Elephant Man', 1980. (Photo by Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images)" width="856" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-451084295-856x576.jpg 856w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-451084295-300x202.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-451084295-768x517.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-451084295.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px" />&#8216;The Elephant Man&#8217;, 1980. (Photo by Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images)</div>
“The Elephant Man” proved to be Lynch’s mainstream breakthrough. A poignant film (also in black-and-white) starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, and based on the true story of a severely deformed British man, the movie garnered widespread acclaim and became a hit at the box office.  It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including two for Lynch.
Lynch’s films were not always successful, however, or well received. After receiving several directing offers post “Elephant Man” and turning down an opportunity from George Lucas to direct “Return of the Jedi,” Lynch opted instead to make an adaptation of the space opera “Dune” from the science-fiction novel by Frank Herbert. The attempt to make a ‘Star Wars for adults’ was a $40 million fiasco and the movie was named by Roger Ebert as the worst of 1984. Plans for two sequels were quickly scrapped.
Lynch roared back in 1986 with his one of his signature movies, “Blue Velvet,” an erotic detective story that peels back the placid exterior of a sweet-as-cherry-pie small town in North Carolina to reveal a seething underworld of dark surreal violence and depravity.
<div id="attachment_860885" style="width: 752px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-860885" class="size-large wp-image-860885" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110866344-742x576.jpg" alt="LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 24: Director David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini attend ShoWest Convention on February 24, 1988 at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)" width="742" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110866344-742x576.jpg 742w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110866344-300x233.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110866344-768x596.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110866344.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px" />Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images</div>
The movie plays as if directed by a psychopathic Norman Rockwell and polarized critics for its unsettling blend of innocence and white-picket-fence whimsy, brimming over with sexual violence and perverse evil. 
Mr. Lynch’s follow-up, the highly controversial albeit forgettable, “Wild at Heart,” a sexed-up, graphically violent road movie starring Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage as a young couple on the run in the American Southwest, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1990. It struck many critics as erratic, cartoony, self-indulgent and, despite some inspired moments, pointless.
In 1990, Lynch with co-creator Mark Frost ushered in a network TV revolution with their cutting-edge series, “Twin Peaks.” The show is an eerie mystery drama about the murder of high school student Laura Palmer and the investigation by an eccentric FBI agent played by Kyle MacLachlan. It is the spiritual spinoff of “Blue Velvet” with Lynch again illuminating the sinister underbelly of Apple Pie America, pitting ordinary good people against depraved and supernatural evil — Andy Griffith vs. Charles Manson — in perhaps Lynch’s most popular work.
<div id="attachment_860889" style="width: 849px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-860889" class="size-large wp-image-860889" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139467895-839x576.jpg" alt="TWIN PEAKS - Pilot - &quot;Northwest Passage&quot; - Airdate: April 8, 1990. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)PRODUCTION SHOT OF KYLE MACLACHLAN, MICHAEL ONTKEAN AND DAVID LYNCH" width="839" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139467895-839x576.jpg 839w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139467895-300x206.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139467895-768x527.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139467895.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px" />TWIN PEAKS &#8211; Pilot &#8211; &#8220;Northwest Passage&#8221; &#8211; Airdate: April 8, 1990. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)</div>
After 1991, however, it seemed as though Lynch could do nothing right. Viewership for season two of “Twin Peaks” fell off a cliff after the ABC Network insisted on an early season reveal of Laura Palmer’s killer and as Lynch himself seemed to lose interest in the show. Throughout the early 90s, he continued to produce multiple TV shows that were unsuccessful and disappeared from television almost immediately.
Lynch then made “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” a 1992 film companion to the television series, which was ravaged by critics, with Vincent Canby of the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/29/movies/review-film-one-long-last-gasp-for-laura-palmer.html">writing</a>, “It’s not the worst movie ever made; it just seems to be.”
Lynch’s lackluster 1997 neo-noir thriller “Lost Highway” a few years later didn’t fare much better.
A turn came in 1998 when Lynch improbably took on the challenge of directing a G-rated Disney movie and created what he called “my most experimental movie”, saying “Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.”
“The Straight Story” is a one of Lynch’s finest films. Based on the true story of 73-year-old Alvin Straight, who in 1994 rode his lawnmower more than 300 miles from Iowa to Wisconsin to reconcile with his ailing and estranged brother. It is a profoundly spiritual film about family, forgiveness and healing that celebrates America and the simple, unsentimentalized beauty of the rural Midwest. Perhaps the least likely to do it, Lynch shows the flip side of &#8220;Blue Velvet&#8221; and reframes America’s heartland as wholesome and its people as good and caring and true in a supremely moving triumph.
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Then came “Mulholland Drive,” Lynch’s much-heralded masterpiece regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, a poison-pen letter to Hollywood wrapped in Nancy Drew mystery.
That the movie became anything was something of a miracle itself, having started as yet another TV series that was killed by ABC. The pilot was filmed in 1999 and a year and a half later, Lynch cobbled together the original cast, shot additional footage and rounded out his twisted plot.
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Lynch again used his favorite film structure, a mystery and an investigation. “Mulholland Drive” follows a budding actress who’s just arrived in Los Angeles as she forms a friendship with another young woman, who has become an amnesiac following a horrific car accident that left her for dead. The two women attempt to learn about the amnesiac’s mysterious past, leading them into an ever-stranger world of mobsters, actors, cops, singers and filmmakers.
In this, his most artistically and philosophically complex work, Lynch portrays “the Hollywood golden dream turning rancid, curdling into a poisonous stew of hatred, envy, sleazy compromise and soul-killing failure. This is the underbelly of our glamorous fantasies”, as Michael Wilmington wrote in the Chicago Tribune.
Following “Mulholland Drive,” Lynch’s filmic output sputtered in the final decades of his life and seemed to halt for lengthy stretches following his descent into near self-parody with his enigmatic last feature, “Inland Empire.” In 2017, he revived the “Twin Peaks” franchise with a baffling yet acclaimed season 3 for Showtime, which he described as an 18-hour movie.
<div id="attachment_860915" style="width: 722px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-860915" class="size-large wp-image-860915" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139424230-712x576.jpg" alt="TWIN PEAKS - Gallery - Shoot Date: March 22, 1990. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)DAVID LYNCH" width="712" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139424230-712x576.jpg 712w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139424230-300x243.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139424230-768x621.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-139424230.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px" />March 22, 1990. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)</div>
After that, Lynch then largely devoted himself to his paintings, his comic strip, his coffee-making business and transcendental meditation, the Buddhist practice he first embraced in his late 20s. He continued to frequent and praise the restaurant Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, California.
It is now very quiet out in David Lynch land and all the dreams have floated off into the dark. The dancing dwarfs are idle and The Log Lady no longer shares clairvoyant visions transmitted by The Log. David Lynch has crossed over the River Styx. Requiescat in pace.
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Matt Kemp is the Director of Post-Production at The Daily Wire.

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David Lynch, Visionary Filmmaker And Creator Of ‘Twin Peaks,’ Dead At 78

David Lynch, Visionary Filmmaker And Creator Of ‘Twin Peaks’, Dead At 78

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Blake Lively</a> has responded to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lawsuit">lawsuit</a> that her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni filed yesterday.
The 179-page lawsuit was filed in a New York federal court against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and two publicists. The suit alleged crimes including extortion, defamation, and claims related to breach of contract, per Variety.
“This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim. This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender,” a statement from Lively’s lawyers to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday said in response to the suit.
The drama between Lively and Baldoni has been ongoing after rumors of issues between the two persisted last year.
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said the lawsuit is “based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.”
“It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret,” he said.
This lawsuit comes on the heels of Lively suing Baldoni and his public relations team for sexual harassment, retaliation, and attempting to “destroy” her reputation.
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At first, Baldoni responded by suing The New York Times for $250 million in a defamation claim for an article about the drama, which he says is “rife with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and omissions.” He promised to countersue Lively, too, which he did on January 16.
“In over three decades of legal practice, I’ve never witnessed such unethical behavior, fueled by those who abuse their power and manipulate the truth,” Freedman’s statement said of the lawsuit against the Times. “This isn’t an isolated case; it’s a recurring pattern in Hollywood and the mainstream media where careers and reputations are destroyed to maintain control.”
The lawyer added, “Legacy media has long weaponized their platforms to distort the truth, exploit vulnerabilities, and destroy lives without accountability.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transgender</a> advocates are big mad about Hollywood’s buzziest new trans-centric film.
The musical crime thriller “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Emilia Pérez</a>” recently swept the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes">Golden Globes</a>, bringing home four statuettes for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Song, and Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña.
This was after earning the second most nominations in Golden Globes history, including the first Best Actress nomination for a transgender-identifying actor that went to the film’s lead, Karla Sofía Gascón.
Now the movie is generating a lot of Oscars buzz after getting a whopping 11 BAFTA nominations in mid-January. 
Maybe this shouldn’t be surprising since the narrative follows a Mexican drug cartel leader who fakes his own death to undergo gender transition surgery and live a new life. Considering Hollywood’s obsession with radical left-wing gender theory, it would make sense for this movie to be heaped in praise. 
Instead, it’s gotten a ton of backlash for being inauthentic and, interestingly enough, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transphobic</a>.
While director Jacques Audiard likely scored points for finding a trans-identifying actor to play the titular role, in the end, that wasn&#8217;t enough: Transgender advocates hated “Emilia Pérez.”
GLAAD, a non-profit that advocates against defamatory coverage of gay, lesbian, &#8220;queer&#8221; and transgender-identifying people, <a href="https://glaad.org/emilia-perez-is-not-good-trans-representation/">called it</a> a &#8220;profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman” and “a step backward for trans representation.”
NPR journalist Reanna Cruz, who uses <a href="https://x.com/bippburger">they/them</a> pronouns and self-identifies as &#8220;queer and trans,&#8221; also complained about the transgender representation, saying it made those individuals look like “liars.”
“The entire time I was watching it I had a really weird feeling in my stomach because to me it seemed like the filmmaker was painting trans women as liars,” Cruz <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/1212604211/emilia-perez-is-netflixs-divisive-musical-about-a-trans-cartel-boss">said</a>. “Liars and people that can’t tell the truth and they don’t know who they are. And the songs kind of lean into that. Where half of the songs you have Emilia singing ‘Who am I?’ or talking about ‘I was a he and now I’m a she.’”
A &#8220;queer media&#8221; writer for the website them.com said &#8220;Emilia Perez&#8221; had no good qualities. &#8220;I was ready to find something to like about it — or at the very least, something I would hate so much it would be one of those so-bad-it’s-good movies. But it was neither. I hate, hate, hate this film,&#8221; Fran Tirado <a href="https://www.them.us/story/emilia-perez-awards-season-discussion-transgender-representation">wrote</a>.
Transgender representation wasn&#8217;t the only concern. Another major issue critics had was over the film&#8217;s authenticity.
“Emilia Pérez” follows cartel kingpin Juan &#8220;Manitas&#8221; Del Monte (Gascón), who petitions attorney Rita Mora Castro (Saldaña) for help with staging his death. The entirety of the events are set in Mexico, but the movie’s director is French. The Spanish-language movie was filmed in France. And Audiard? He doesn&#8217;t even speak Spanish.
The director also admitted to not doing much research before making the film. “I didn’t study [Mexico] much,” Audiard said during an <a href="https://x.com/carlasantni/status/1876096636658778365">interview</a> that’s been circulating on X. “What I needed to know I already knew a little bit.”
There’s been much backlash to the film on social media, especially from Mexican viewers who say the portrayal of their country is inaccurate and damaging, particularly when it comes to the portrayal of drug cartels. Viewers also lamented the fact that none of the cast members were Mexican, reigniting a familiar argument about casting actors in roles that don’t match their nationality. 
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&#8220;This is a message to the Academy: Mexico hates Emilia Pérez. It is a racist, Eurocentric mockery. Nearly 500,000 are dead, and France decides to make a musical with no Mexicans in the crew or cast,&#8221; one popular <a href="https://x.com/siteptbr/status/1876304128701587708">X post</a> says.
Another user on X agreed, writing, &#8220;Emilia Pérez is a case study in how to combine every cliché, ignorance, and lack of respect toward one of the most serious humanitarian crises of our time. Poorly acted, with a weak script, and a disastrously executed musical.&#8221;
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“It just doesn’t make sense. A French guy making a movie without really knowing what happens in Mexico, simply unbelievable. Bad acting, dialogues, story doesn’t make sense and so on. Please, for your own good, don’t watch it,” one reviewer <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emilia_perez/reviews?type=user">wrote</a>.
Another agreed, writing, “I am Mexican and I found it completely disrespectful. It looks like a bad comedy made to entertain and promote stereotypes raised from an ignorant perspective of the country they want to represent on screen.”
“Only Murders in the Building” actress Selena Gomez also caught heat for her Spanish speaking skills. &#8220;CODA&#8221; actor Eugenio Derbez spoke out publicly about her Spanish pronunciation during a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@elviboreo/video/7445195042647477559">podcast</a> appearance in December, saying, “Selena is indefensible.”
Derbez added, “I was there [watching the movie] with people, and every time a scene came [with her in it], we looked at each other and said, ‘Wow, what is this?’”
Gomez responded to the criticism via TikTok, saying, &#8220;I understand where you are coming from. I&#8217;m sorry I did the best I could with the time I was given. Doesn&#8217;t take away from how much work and heart I put into this movie.&#8221;
Derbez later <a href="https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20241209734904/eugenio-derbez-criticizes-selena-gomez-spanish/">apologized</a> to Gomez, saying his &#8220;careless comments&#8221; went against &#8220;everything I stand for.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse. I was wrong, and I deeply admire your career and your kind heart,” he said. 
But plenty of other critics share his feelings.
Despite all the backlash, many critics who do not write for &#8220;queer media&#8221; and industry bigwigs loved “Emilia Pérez.” Kevin Maher from The Times <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/emilia-perez-film-review-zoe-saldana-selena-gomez-ksk9fr008">said</a>, &#8220;This mad musical is one of the year&#8217;s best films,” while Stephanie Zacharek from Time <a href="https://time.com/7175205/emilia-perez-review-netflix/">said</a> it was &#8220;fierce and glorious, a radical act of the imagination with kindness in its heart.&#8221;
New York Times critic Manohla Dargis agreed, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/movies/emilia-perez-review.html">writing</a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s Gascón&#8217;s performance that centers and grounds the story.&#8221;
“Titanic” director James Cameron also had rave reviews. &#8220;What I saw that blew me away was Emilia Pérez. I have seen it three times now,&#8221; Cameron <a href="https://youtu.be/1OnDUpjNqiw">said</a> in December. &#8220;It’s just not like any other film that’s ever been made, you know? I mean, I think it’s bold, it&#8217;s daring, it&#8217;s a vision. It’s beautifully executed. It’s a beautiful piece of filmmaking.&#8221;
“Emilia Pérez” currently has a 76% critics rating and a 38% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is expected to take home some prizes at the British Academy Film Awards and later at the Oscars in March, despite the fact that audiences – even those who you’d think would be cheering for a trans-centric storyline – really, really don’t like it.

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The following is a transcribed excerpt from one of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s 2015 lectures. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast">watch</a> more from Dr. Peterson on DailyWire+.
“Pinocchio” is a story that includes an initiation ritual and a journey to the depths (the underworld). It is a story of the consequence of a collapse of previous personality and the disintegration of that previous personality into a chaotic state prior to rebirth.
Pinocchio, a puppet, tries to become a real boy. In the beginning, he is a marionette. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carl Jung</a> explained that is your habitual state of being: Something else is pulling your strings. Even the idea that you are autonomous is the consequence of something else pulling your strings, so for Jung, what you needed to do was find out exactly who and what is pulling your strings and decide if that is the direction in which you want to go. That is what happens to Pinocchio in the story.
Pinocchio is a marionette made by Geppetto, a good father. He is a marionette with a benevolent puppeteer. But as soon as he develops some autonomy, he becomes prey to forces that are elements of the demonic archetype. In fact, the worst bad guy in the entire story turns into Satan himself. So Pinocchio goes through a series of temptations of various sorts, including a Freudian temptation to remain weak and sickly instead of becoming a real person. Another temptation Pinocchio faces is being offered false celebrity as a way of solving his life’s problems. He is offered the opportunity to become an actor when a deceitful fate constructs a persona that makes him appear far more valuable than he really is. These are two pathological modes of movement towards maturity — one being a phony, and the other taking the easy way out and hyper-valuing pathologies to the degree he becomes dependent.
The third pathological development offered to Pinocchio occurs on Pleasure Island, which is to do nothing but engage in short-term impulsive and destructive play. But when he goes to Pleasure Island, he finds that the island is actually ruled by demonic forces, faceless entities who are transforming all the pleasure-seeking marionettes into donkeys who are slaves. Pinocchio escapes from that by jumping into the unknown, represented by jumping into the water, which is equivalent to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plunging into chaos</a> — his exposure to his initiation. In other words, chaos was an escape from pathological tyranny.
Now, the cricket. While I cannot tell you everything about this element of the story, I can tell you a couple strange notions about it. The initials are J.C., and Jiminy Cricket was a common, mild-form of Southern American cursing; it is the equivalent of Jesus Christ. So you might think, and of course, the cricket is Pinocchio’s conscience. So why in the world would a pejorative term for Jesus Christ be applied to a cricket who is guiding a puppet into the water to rescue his father from a whale? Why would any of that happen? You know why but you cannot say why. You cannot say why you know or what it is you know, but the mere fact that it makes sense — and it does — is an indication from a Jungian perspective that you are operating at an archetypal level.
Further, the cricket is a bug. Why might this be? Well, things bug you. You should do something about the things that bug you because that is your conscience calling to you. It is destiny, in some sense, manifesting itself as an unconscious impulse. Now, there are a lot of things out there that might bug you; some of them do not, but lots of them do. Why do certain things bug you and not other things? That is a complicated question, but one potential answer is that there is part of your psyche that is oriented <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">towards further development</a>. Jung would call that the self — essentially, the totality of everything you could be. It is a strange sort of entity because it is partly potential and it is potential that expands across time. But the way that your potential totality calls to you in the present is by placing things in front of you that are your problem. They announce themselves as your problem by bothering you. So if you pick up the task of fixing the thing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that bothers you</a>, then you find the pathway to further expansion of your personality.
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That is what happens with Pinocchio. Part of what makes the “Pinocchio” story so incredibly sophisticated is that despite the fact the cricket is an avatar of Christ, so to speak, the cricket has things to learn just like Pinocchio. That implies that you do have a conscience that guides you, but until you establish a dialogue with it, both you and the conscience are immature. You have to establish a conscious dialogue with it and interact together, which propels your development across time. That will stop you from being a marionette of external forces.
Many events at multiple levels of reality happen simultaneously when Pinocchio goes home, which is characteristic of an archetypal story. On one level, Pinocchio is too old to go home; he cannot go home to his father because, in some sense, he has already transcended his father Geppetto. That is on the personal level. On the transpersonal level, the deeper archetypal level, what is happening to Pinocchio is exactly what Nietzsche described at the end of the 19th century. Geppetto is his creator, and now he is dead; he is gone. So Pinocchio is bereft of placement. His soul has been corrupted, and he does not know what to do about it. When he returns to his family home, or to his tradition, he finds nothing.
But then a dove comes along and drops a note right in front of Pinocchio. The star from which the dove comes is a representation of the blue fairy, who is the positive element of the unknown. What this scene is basically saying is: When you are despairing because your father has died and your tradition has nothing to offer, the positive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">element of the unknown</a> may provide you with a message of where to go if you pay enough attention. That is an intuition of the automatic attraction of your interests to a new thing by forces you do not understand.
One of the real ways of coming to grips with the active unconscious is by understanding you cannot control what you are interested in. If it is not you, then you might ask who or what it is. And if you think about that problem long enough, you will start to understand what Jung was talking about. That is the way you can understand in your own life that the things that direct you as a being are not things that you consciously choose. In fact, they are not even things you can consciously choose.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maps of Meaning</a>,” “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-role-of-the-holy-spirit-distinguishing-between-your-will-and-gods-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12 Rules For Life,</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Order-More-Rules-Life/dp/0593084640/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nbV0WtVit9busCddbjMST-Oe7hjueQrxfqnQ4L3HXXUFdIaqlEBr0sp9HQWIq9ut9NlHDAFA0YQoDWVZfDtKNJI7VvlzWv2rMhs2KcAAIIppPRMWq4GIiFerkrssvBABAjeKlg3OFs3H8IHs5D8ktJ5uBg3K-SZ4hpKltaKkrhY6j-RKn-tTkBz29JZXP3Rhm9SB14rHUX1nol5d4z4Fi6f8fwhxXWCVGgkvOHSqG6E.iVF1NljuBEwrpumO9rQBh9FotnzaIo4K7K8HvNnC46k&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Order.</a>” Be sure to order his newest book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Wrestle-God-Jordan-Peterson/dp/0593542533/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=38kcw&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.f911c8db-3a2b-4b3e-952f-b80fdcee83f4&amp;pf_rd_p=f911c8db-3a2b-4b3e-952f-b80fdcee83f4&amp;pf_rd_r=133-1833056-3520340&amp;pd_rd_wg=3zvBk&amp;pd_rd_r=93a1419a-853b-4c49-a764-cbaa90d3073a&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Who Wrestle with God</a>” (Portfolio/Penguin).
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I try to keep abreast of the various movies that are nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, even though there hasn&#8217;t been a solid winner in the Oscars for years at this point. 
This year, the frontrunner is a movie titled “Emilia Pérez,” which was nominated for 10 Golden Globes. It won four.
It is one of the worst movies ever made. It is horrible in every way possible for it to be horrible.
I’m going to break down this review into a few categories. First, we&#8217;re going to go through the actual movie plot, the performances, and the music. Then, we&#8217;ll get to the blowback.
The premise of this unbelievably stupid, insulting, and morally vacuous film involves a gangland drug leader, played by Karla Sofía Gascón, who is a trans woman, which is to say, a man. In real life, Gascón identified as a male until his mid-forties. In 2018, at the age of 46, Gascón decided that he was, in fact, a she and decided to go through all of the various surgeries to make him look more like a her. 
I would say rather unsuccessfully.
In this particular story, Gascón plays a Mexican drug lord, the head of a deadly drug cartel who decides he does not just want to disappear, but also wants to become a woman. He&#8217;s apparently always wanted to be a woman. The lawyer he ropes into this game is Rita Mora Castro, played by Zoe Saldana, who will help the newly-named Emilia Pérez become a woman.
The basic premise of the film is reliant on one essential idea about life. If you don&#8217;t buy into this idea, the entire movie is actually quite evil. That idea is: If you cut off your genitals, this makes you a better person. The basic premise of the film is: If a genocidal, murderous drug lord wants to feel like a woman, undergoes many surgeries and hormone treatments, that person is to be treated as a feminist saint after emerging on the other side.
Without that crazy perspective, none of the movie works and the whole tale becomes rather sinister.
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Now, you may be saying to yourself, this sounds like a comedy. If you watch the film as a comedy, it is uproariously funny, since none of it follows. It makes no sense. All the things that are supposed to be serious are hilarious. It is one of the most ridiculous movies ever filmed.
This drug lord is married to a character played by Selena Gomez, legitimately one of the worst actresses alive. Inanimate objects have more affect than Gomez.
The transgender woman&#8217;s lover, played by Adriana Paz, is a person named Epifania.
The drug lord’s wife and two children move to Switzerland with the drug lord’s money. Four years later, the drug lord, now a transgender woman, approaches the lawyer and says, basically, “I would like to get in touch with my kids again, so I&#8217;m going to pretend to be my cousin living in Mexico. I&#8217;m going to pay my ex-wife and the kids” — the wife thinks he&#8217;s dead at this point —  “to come live with me in Mexico.” Complications ensue because it turns out the wife has a lover. And not only that, but so does Emilia Pérez. At this point, he falls in love with a woman. 
All of this comes as the lawyer and Pérez decide that not only is it time for Pérez to return to Mexico as a woman, but it is also time for Pérez to become an extraordinarily high-scale public figure who uncovers all of the bodies of people murdered by drug cartels. At no point, by the way, does this drug cartel leader actually apologize to anyone for having murdered humans.
Instead, this person just traipses around explaining that it&#8217;s very bad to kill people and bury their bodies in unnamed places and so on. By the end of the film, the drug cartel leader and his ex-wife have died in a car crash and the children now belong to the lawyer.
If you followed all of that, congratulations; either you have a screw loose, or you are great at following nonsensical plots.
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All of this is accompanied by some of the worst music and performances in a film. In a musical, the music should be good, but in this musical, the music is just absolute sheer, unmitigated horror. It was written by Camille, a French singer, and Clément Ducol, a French film composer. It&#8217;s absolutely, horrifyingly bad. The lighting is terrible. The choreography is terrible.
At one point, Pérez goes into the bedroom of one of his children and lies down next to his child. They can&#8217;t fall asleep. And the kid tells him he smells like his father.
Well, yes; you&#8217;ve f***ed up that kid&#8217;s life beyond all recognition. First of all, you&#8217;re a drug lord. Second of all, you deprived that kid of a father so that you could play dress up.
And we&#8217;re supposed to be sympathetic to this person for some reason?
The lyrics are terrible in this scene. The dude smells like “mountains, leather coffee, spicy food, sugar, lamb on the fire, the engine, Diet Coke with lemon, ice, and sweat.” He also smells of “little stones warmed by the sun, mint, Mezcal, guacamole, dogs on car rides, cigarettes.”
Who wrote this? This whole musical was written by a person being hit in the head with a brick.
The end of the film is a parade with a statue looking like the Virgin Mary of this trans-woman, drug-cartel leader who engaged in mass murder, was never prosecuted for it, and betrayed his wife and children. But this person is a saint now, because that&#8217;s how the politics work here.
The whole musical turns on one fundamental moral supposition: If you are a person with gender dysphoria and cut off your genitals or have hormone surgery, this means all sins — past, present, and future — are wiped away. All of them. You can do anything to anyone at any time, and you are fully justified in doing so because you have found your identity.
This will be the worst Best Picture winner since “The Shape of Water,” although that’s a brutal decision, the &#8220;Sophie&#8217;s Choice&#8221; of bad movies decisions. Which do you pick? You&#8217;re on a desert island, and you only can watch one of these two movies for the rest of time. Which one?
The third option is to drown yourself.
Which may be preferable.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mel-gibson">Mel Gibson</a> gave an update on his upcoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">sequel</a> to the hit 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ,” saying filming could begin in 2026.
The 69-year-old actor, director, and writer discussed his plans during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast this week. “I’m hoping next year sometime. There’s a lot required because it’s an acid trip,” Gibson said of the project. He noted that he’s “never read anything like” the script, which he worked on for more than six years along with screenwriter Randall Wallace.
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The title will be “The Resurrection of the Christ,” he confirmed.
“My brother and I and Randall all sort of congregated on this. So there’s some good heads put together, but there’s some crazy stuff,” Gibson went on. “And I think in order to really tell the story properly you have to start with the fall of the angels, which means you’re in another place, you’re in another realm. You need to go to hell.”
The filmmaker confirmed that he plans to have actor Jim Caviezel reprise his role as Jesus. Gibson also said he might use “a few techniques” to de-age Caviezel since more than two decades have passed since the first film&#8217;s release, and the events will take place three days after “The Passion” ends, when Jesus rose from the dead following his crucifixion. 
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Gibson said the entire project was “very ambitious” and that the story will encompass “the fall of the angels to the death of the last apostle.”
“It’s about finding the way in that’s not cheesy or obvious,” he said. 
Gibson added, “I think I have ideas about how to do that and how to evoke things and emotions in people from the way you depict it, and the way you shoot it. So I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. It’s not going to be easy, and it’s going to require a lot of planning and I’m not wholly sure I can pull it off to tell you the truth, it’s really super ambitious. But I’ll take a crack at it because that’s what you got to do, right, walk up to the plate, right?”
&#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221; was a massive hit, earning $600 million against a $30 million budget.

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">child actors</a> who appeared together in the hit 2003 comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">School of Rock</a>” just tied the knot.
Caitlin Hale starred in the film as Marta, who went by the nickname Blondie. Angelo Massagli played her classmate Frankie. Their wedding celebration was announced by Rivkah Reyes, who played Katie, with a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rivkah.reyes/video/7456472190934994207">post</a> shared on TikTok.
“Celebrating the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">marriage</a> of CAITLIN &amp; ANGELO with my forever fam #schoolofrock #wedding,” Reyes wrote in the caption of the social media post. In the clip, several other cast members, including Brian Falduto, Joey Gaydos Jr., Rivkah Reyes, Robert Tsai, Maryam Hassan, Aleisha Allen, and Cole Hawkins, can be seen enjoying the festivities.
The TikTok video is set to the Stevie Nicks song “Edge of Seventeen,” which was featured in the movie.
Commenters were overjoyed to get a glimpse of the wedding. “The way I could still see all your little childhood faces in your adult faces and recognized all of you,” one popular response said.
“Y’all have no idea how much this means to me. School of Rock was INTEGRAL to my childhood,” another person wrote.
“It’s not tacky and I don’t hate it,” a third said, referencing a classic line from the movie. 
Actor Jack Black starred in “School of Rock” as struggling rock guitarist Dewey Finn, who is fired from his band and decides to work as a substitute teacher at a prep school. He recruits a group of fourth graders to form a musical group in a bid to win a Battle of the Bands competition, hoping to use the winnings to pay his rent. 
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Massagli had nothing but praise for his future bride when he spoke with <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/school-of-rock-stars-caitlin-hale-and-angelo-massagli-confirm-theyre-dating-18-years-after-films">Inside Edition</a> in 2021. &#8220;I remember my first audition for &#8216;School of Rock&#8217; like it was yesterday,&#8221; he told the outlet. &#8220;I get in there and the little blonde girl next to me, she gets called in first and she starts singing show tunes and just blows the roof off the place. It was excellent.&#8221;
Per <a href="https://ew.com/school-of-rock-cast-reunites-caitlin-hale-angelo-massaglis-wedding-8769666">Entertainment Weekly</a>, the pair stayed in touch via a group chat with other “School of Rock” stars. They started dating after Hale moved to Florida, where Massagli was living.
Both former child stars are no longer working in Hollywood. The outlet noted that Hale is an OB/GYN ultrasound technologist and Massagli graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 2019.

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‘School Of Rock’ Co-Stars Delight Fans By Tying The Knot

'School Of Rock' Co-Stars Delight Fans By Tying The Knot

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