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If anyone is equipped to analyze the turmoil in the presidential race that was catalyzed by Thursday’s debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, it’s CBS News anchor John Dickerson.

Dickerson is network’s chief political analyst and anchor of “The Daily Report with John Dickerson” streaming broadcast. He’s written extensively about American presidents and the political dynamics of our age in his role as a contributor to the Atlantic and author of the 2020 book “The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency.” What’s more, Dickerson also co-hosts the Slate podcasts “Political Gabfest” and “Whistlestop.”

Since the June 27 faceoff between the candidates, Dickerson has been working overtime trying to sort out the impact of Biden and Trump’s performances in the debate held unusually early in the campaign cycle. Dickerson finds little precedent from the past to offer guidance on how the 2024 battle for the White House might play out.

The following article contains spoilers for "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off." 

In the new Netflix anime, "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off," things don't happen in quite the same manner as they do in the 2010 film "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," based on the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is a version of the story that happens within the world of the anime, and events wrap up very differently. Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) doesn't just fight her evil ex Roxie (Mae Whitman). In the show, she actually apologizes for how she treated her college girlfriend. They end up friends, though in one scene in episode 3, Roxie does mention wanting to get back together or at least to become friends with benefits. When Ramona says no, she immediately pivots to asking Kim (Alison Pill), the drummer from Scott's (Michael Cera) band Sex Ba-Bomb, if she would want to hook up. They kiss,...

Translated by Andrey Kartashov. Originally published in Outskirts Film Magazine, an English-language biannual magazine of around 160 pages per issue, made up of original essays, interviews, reviews, and a single large dossier, the first of which is devoted to Soviet filmmaker Boris Barnet. It is now available to buy from the Outskirts e-shop.Final films are doomed to failure. Could it be, perhaps, because at that point their directors have broken away from any expectations of what a film “must” be? A plot summary of Boris Barnet’s final film Whistle Stop fits easily into just a few short sentences. The scientist Pavel Pavlovich, member of the Soviet Academy, goes to the countryside for a vacation with his easel and paints. Several seemingly trivial scenes from village life ensue. A tractor runs away from its owner. A friendly bull pays Pavel Pavlovich a visit. Kids next door insist on building a stove.

What are your three top noirs you'd love to see discussed this month? I mean besides the obvious choices like Gilda (a personal fav) and films we've discussed in the past few years already like Double Indemnity, Blood Simple, The Bigamist, and Woman in the Window.

Easy Access Fyi:

• Netflix has a paltry selection of Noir but they are offering Dressed to Kill, Don't Bother to Knock, Laura, and House on Telegraph Hill

• Amazon Prime is streaming The Killer is Loose, The Man in the Attic, The Hitchhiker, Shoot to Kill, Scarlett Street, Dark Passage, Strange Woman, Fear in the Night, The Stranger, Port of New York, Strange Illusion, Whistle Stop and Woman on the Run

• The new FilmStruck service has several foreign titles mostly from Japan and France...

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The sensational, overlooked film scores from the years 1990 to 1999 that really are well worth digging out...

The movies went through tumultuous and exciting changes in the nineties. Quentin Tarantino exploded onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs, Generation X gave rise to slacker marvels like Clerks, and blockbusters like The Matrix put the awe back into special effects.

However, the 90s was also a sensational decade for film music, gifting us classics including the likes of Jurassic Park, Titanic, Total Recall, Braveheart and countless others. But the sheer quality of these soundtrack treasures shouldn’t overshadow those undervalued hidden gems that demonstrate the extraordinary range and versatility of our finest film composers, ones that may have passed you by. So here’s our selection of those incredible works: ranging from the earworming to the unsettling, the melodic to the chaotic, these are the scores that simply demand your attention.

This is Tom Riley who played Robin Hood on an episode of Dr. Who last month.

Is there ever a bad morning to listen to Whistle Stop?

No. No there is not.

Sony has optioned a Robin Hood script called Hood by Cory Goodman (writer of the Paul Bettany Priest) and Jeremy Lott (wrote as-yet-unmade The Falling with Zac Efron attached) for seven figures. The actual reported amount by THR is $1 million against $2 million but with no producers onboard yet, so...the point is it's a lot of money for a script about Robin Hood.

Why is Sony paying so much for this script? It's a Mission Impossible meets Fast and Furious (read: mystery/heist plot with action beats) that establishes Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, and Will Scarlet as existing in their own cinematic mega franchise universe. Yes, I'm talking about solo movies called ridiculous things like "The Tuck Chronicles" or "Little John,...

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Previously on Chicago Fire, Severide decided to move the Madrid because his neck is broken and the sweetest way to die would be in the arms of Carmen. Dawson gave Mills the food and wine she prepared for Shay’s big U-Haul party. I know there was something else. Oh right, she also gave him Shay’s ticket to her vagina. Shay came back to work and also wore a football helmet which made some of us swoon.

This week’s episode opens with Severide making good use of his inability to work to do all that touristy stuff you never do in your own city. He takes Renee to Skydeck and charges out into the tiny plastic box on the 103rd floor. The floor is transparent and you can see right down to the ground. Or at least I think you can because I couldn’t bear to look.

In early July, chef Robert Irvine is in Arkansas with his Wednesday Food Network makeover show "Restaurant: Impossible," and he's not happy with what he sees.

"We're at a restaurant called Whistle Stop Cafe," he says. "We came in late last night, started this morning, and we're just thinking out the restaurant. They've got a lot of problems -- management, leadership, cleanliness, cooking, you name it. It's all in there. It's the perfect storm."

One would think, with all sorts of state and local inspectors, it'd be tough to find a truly dirty kitchen in America.

But, says Irvine, not so much.

"It's scary," he tells Zap2it. "But we find them, and it's not difficult to find them. That's the worst part. There's another one today."

As for what's on the menu, Irvine says, "It's a big, buffet-style restaurant, more Southern-style food than anything else -- catfish, collard greens,...

In early July, Chef Robert Irvine is in Arkansas with his Food Network makeover show "Restaurant Impossible," and he's not happy with what he sees.

"We're at a restaurant called Whistle Stop Cafe," he tells Zap2it. "We came in late last night, started this morning, and we're just thinking out the restaurant.They've got a lot of problems -- management, leadership, cleanliness, cooking, you name it. It's all in there. It's the perfect storm."

One would think, with all sorts of state and local inspectors, it'd be tough to find a truly dirty kitchen in America.

But, says Irvine, not so much.

"It's scary," he says. "But we find them, and it's not difficult to find them. That's the worst part. There's another one today."

Asked what's on the menu, Irvine says, "It's a big, buffet-style restaurant, more Southern-style food than anything else -- catfish, collard greens, fried chicken.

If you’ve hunted around for movie bargains, you’ve probably seen some of Mill Creek Entertainment’s 50-Movie Packs on DVD. Apart from other great releases by Mill Creek, these packs are phenomenal boons to cinephiles looking to collect older titles.

There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.

I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more,...

Spoiler Alert! If you haven’t yet seen tonight’s season finale of The Good Wife stop reading now. We asked creators Robert and Michelle King to dissect the hour, which Robert directed, and tease where we’re headed in season 4.

Entertainment Weekly: Let’s start with Kalinda. She described her sexuality to Alicia as “flexible.” Is it flexible when she needs something, or flexible because she truly enjoys both men and women? What should we believe?

Robert King: I think what you want to believe, anyway, is that she can’t distinguish between enjoyment and need or manipulation,...

Wind down your window, take your ticket and find a space for this week's clips celebrating the magic of the multi-storey

One of the great glories of cinema is that it has the power to take the mundane and make it magical. To most of us, car parks signify a world of pain, where fearsome red-and-white crash barriers dictate our fate and where finding a space is often like finding meaning in the collective works of Martin Lawrence. To others, they meant lost Saturday afternoons spent waiting for your mum to finally come out of Woolworths so you could rush home to catch Terrahawks. Either way, car parks are grey and dull. In the movies, however, they are fantastic places, filled with high-level espionage, high-octane chases and Willem Dafoe going down on Madonna. Here are five car park sequences worth reserving a permanent bay for …

1) The Way of the Gun...

Already a hit in America, Tate Taylor’s big-screen rendering of The Help arrives in the UK. Here’s Louisa’s review of a flawed yet affecting drama...

Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 debut, The Help, was leapt upon by the American reading public with the kind of fervour usually reserved for sparkly vampires, boy wizards, and clunky art-history based thrillers about Jesus’ missus. Stockett’s 1963-set tale of race relations, courage, and friendship between a group of women in Jackson, Mississippi became a stateside book group hit which sold in its millions.

Since the Us summer release of Tate Taylor’s film adaptation, The Help has done similarly good business, beating superheroes, cowboys and aliens to a three week spot at the top of the American box office.

It’s easy to see why. The Help is an entertaining, very well-acted, affecting film. It’s got more than a few laughs,...

Train Stores in Line for Gary Coleman's Stuff

Gary Coleman loved trains almost as much as he loved his wife ... TMZ has learned the former child actor originally planned to leave almost all his worldly possessions to three model train stores ... assuming Shannon was dead.

In the 2006 will, Gary made Shannon the beneficiary of most of his property -- including clothing, jewelry, art, boats, and other recreational vehicles. But if Shannon predeceased Gary or died within 90 days of his death, all his stuff was supposed to go to Allied Model Trains, The Original Whistle Stop, and The Train Shack in L.A.

But even if Shannon outlived Gary, she wasn't getting her hands on his enormous model train collection -- under the '06 will, Gary doled out all of his trains to the stores he loved.

As TMZ first reported, Shannon just filed docs claiming she's the rightful heir...

Gary Coleman loved trains almost as much as he loved his wife ... TMZ has learned the former child actor originally planned to leave almost all his worldly possessions to three model train stores ... assuming Shannon was dead. In the 2006 will, Gary made Shannon the beneficiary of most of his property -- including clothing, jewelry, art, boats, and other recreational vehicles. But if Shannon predeceased Gary or died within 90 days of his death, all his stuff...