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Why the John Lewis and Pete Souza Docs Are Chapters in the Same Book Following the summer release of Dawn Porter’s acclaimed documentary,  John Lewis: Good Trouble , the director is back with her second nonfiction film of the year,  The Way I See It , about Pete Souza, the official White House photographer for Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan. While two seemingly different stories, one is about the life and career of the  late congressman  and civil rights activist and the other follows the photojournalist’s professional journey after leaving the White House, Porter views them as two chapters within the same book.   “John Lewis kept saying if you see something that’s not right, not fair, not just, then say something, do something, get into good trouble,” the filmmaker tells ET. “And I think Pete is getting into good trouble.” After spending years working for Obama, Souza underwent a public transformation from a “chronicler of history” to a critic of the Donald Tru...

Liam Neeson doesn't steal much more than your time in 'Honest Thief' (CNN) By the standards of Liam Neeson thrillers (and there are a lot from which to choose), "Honest Thief" is pretty weak tea, a passable, low-octane action movie that doesn't do much more than steal one's time. Like second-tier John Wayne westerns, Neeson offers enough of what his fans want, but a thin script and stilted dialogue make the battle harder than usual. In "Taken," its sequels and similarly themed fare since -- a la  "The Commuter"  and  "Cold Pursuit"  -- Neeson has carved out a niche as a likable guy who's easy to root for and a very, very bad idea to cross. That's essentially the formula here, although the template actually proves closer to something like "FX" -- where the protagonist uses his specialized skills to fight the bad guys -- than the most obvious comparisons to Neeson's filmography. Neeson plays Tom Carter, a f...

‘Love and Monsters’ Review: Dylan O’Brien Leads a Fun and Imaginative Post-Apocalyptic Romp “Love and Monsters” is the rarest kind of movie these days: A funny, original, genre-mashing adventure made with big studio money. “Love and Monsters” Michael Matthews’ “ Love and Monsters ” is the rarest kind of movie these days: A fun, imaginative, genre-mashing adventure that was made with a modest amount of big studio money and destined for a theatrical release despite not being adapted from a comic book or carried by a major star. Well, maybe “destined” isn’t the right word, as a certain pandemic (you know the one) came along and compelled Paramount to scuttle a multiplex release in favor of a VOD play. And while it might be legally accurate to say that “Love and Monsters” isn’t based on pre-existing material, it couldn’t be more obvious that it was conceived by someone who saw “Zombieland” on TV one night and thought to themselves: “I could do it...

An Eighth-Grader Reviews Ben Sasse’s “Eighth Grade Civics” Presentation Ben Sasse teaching.   SUSAN WALSH/Getty Images In his opening remarks at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, author of  The Vanishing American Adult , invoked the image of eighth-graders around the nation witnessing the event and trying to understand it. Sasse sought to clarify things for these imaginary pre-teens, suggesting they would be confused by the Democrats raising political objections to the purely straightforward process of a president appointing a new justice. “If we can back up and do a little bit of eighth-grade civics,” Sasse said, “I think it would benefit us and benefit the watching country and especially watching eighth-grade civics classes.” Slate asked Mack, an eighth-grader in the New York City public schools, to give his thoughts about Sasse’s presentation. Ben Sasse sounds less insane than I thou...