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The Trump administration continues to amp up their targeted attacks on international student visa-holders as part of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “Catch and Revoke” program targeting pro-Palestine activists. Several foreign students have been arrested and detained, pulled off the sidewalk by plainclothes agents, and driven away in unmarked vehicles, while others are hiding as their court cases play out.

Rubio said Thursday he may have revoked more than 300 visas at this point. “We do it every day,” Rubio said, as reported by The Washington Post’s John Hudson.

One of the greatest Westerns to feature Doc Holliday will soon hit a major streaming platform. 1957's Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, starring Kirk Douglas as the famed historical character, will arrive on Prime Video on December 1.

Directed by John Sturges from a screenplay by novelist Leon Uris, the movie was a remake of 1939's Frontier Marshall and John Ford's 1946 film My Darling, and is loosely based on an actual event in Tombstone, Arizona. Four lawmen, including temporary assistant marshal Holliday, engaged in a gun battle with five members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. Featuring alongside Douglas, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral stars Burt Lancaster as Marshal Wyatt Earp, John Hudson as Virgil Earp, and DeForest Kelley as Morgan Earp. Lyle Bettger, Dennis Hopper, Jack Elam, and John Ireland play members of the Cochise County Cowboys.

Many big actors, including Brad Pitt and Mark Hamill, started their careers in soap operas, showcasing their acting skills and honing their craft before moving on to blockbuster films. Soap operas possess well-developed characters and talented actors, allowing them to cycle through different characters while maintaining a dedicated fanbase. Soap opera roles, such as those played by Margot Robbie and Morgan Freeman, often differ from the actors' later works, highlighting their versatility and range as performers.

Though they're now known for other roles, many big actors got their start in soap operas. With shows like General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, and The Young And The Restless drawing huge audiences, soap operas have thrived on TV for decades. These shows include serialized storylines with family conflicts, sex, and romantic relationships. The genre thrives on twists and turns that seem larger than life.

While soap operas are often looked down, the genre possesses many strengths,...

Warning: contains spoilers for the Trigger Point finale.

Trigger Point concluded with a tense, pacey and well-directed episode that revealed the bomber’s identity and closed the case. Wash’s nightmare month ended, finally giving her little ponytail a chance to rest. Along the way, she’d lost her colleague, her brother and her bit on the side, and had only managed to stop about fifty percent of the bombs from going off, but at least she could draw a line under it. The Crusaders were no more, their puppet master had been unmasked, and his mystery revenge mission was laid bare. Time for everybody to get down The King’s Head for a pint and a game of pool. Or perhaps not pool. Too soon.

Let’s dig in to the finale’s revelations. Prepare for dynamic entry! Trojan One, ready to engage…

Sonya’s mug was the key...

Warning: this Trigger Point review contains spoilers.

It was lucky they let Wash back to work early. As our point-of-view character, if she hadn’t been reinstated, we could have faced another half hour of lethargic dialogue and vodka dance breakdowns. Instead, it was thankfully on with the Ray-Bans and the ponytail, and on with the show.

Making Wash so central to this story has stymied it. She’s in almost every scene, which sucks the urgency out of the police investigation because any discovery has to be reported to her after the fact rather than made on the spot. Wash’s information gathering (attending briefings, visiting Sonya for the latest on Portland Down, walking through that room where someone’s always shouting “This Is Your Top Priority, Let’S Get Cracking, I Want Results!”…) has turned into a repetitive, passive routine rather than the pacey series of breakthroughs other...

This Trigger Point review contains spoilers.

Oh, Wash. If my brother’s life depended on it, he probably probably wouldn’t listen to me either. All Billy had to do was sit tight and wait for Big Sis to do her job, but instead, he fell right into the bombers’ trap. Silly Billy. It’s not hard to see where the brains went in that family. Billy’s are currently distributed all over Cranstead Fields’ football pitch.

At least he didn’t take a crowd of innocent protestors with him as The Crusaders planned. Thanks to the fast work of Wash and the Counter Terrorism team, Billy’s was a sacrifice of one. One dozy, racist numpty to be precise, which isn’t much sacrifice unless you happen to be related to him. Actor Ewan Mitchell did such a good job of playing Billy’s dawning realisation that his new...

This Trigger Point review contains spoilers.

If you were a Met officer who was secretly (and – credit where it’s due – successfully) orchestrating a cross-London terror campaign right under the nose of your employers, would you leave your work locker stuffed with evidence pointing your way? Unlikely. If that A to Z doesn’t just turn out to be John Hudson doing his homework like a good little bomb disposal expert, it’s likely been planted. But by whom?

The top suspect has to be Thom Youngblood, a man who’ll ruin a takeaway by asking you to move in with him halfway through the Peshwari naan. There’s currently zero evidence against Thom. He’s only a suspect according to the rules of the TV thriller, which state that the character least likely to have done it but in the most scenes with the lead by the end of...

Last Wednesday, November 18, Eb Research Partnership (Ebrp) co-founders Jill and Eddie Vedder presented Venture Into Cures, an inspiring virtual event featuring moving stories about individuals and families living with Epidermolysis Bullosa (Eb).

United by a lineup of celebrity friends, the event raised over $1.8 million for Ebrp, helping the organization move closer to finding a cure for Eb and leading the way for other rare diseases.

More than 150,000 tuned in to watch special appearances by Judd Apatow, Bradley Cooper, Laura Dern, Billie Eilish, Chris Hemsworth, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, Gaten Matarazzo, Luis “King Kong” Ortiz, Adam Sandler, Jill Vedder, and Renée Zellweger, and inspiring musical performances by Jon Batiste, Alessia Cara, Andra Day, Glen Hansard, Adam Levine, Keb’ Mo’, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real with Micah and Willie Nelson, and Eddie Vedder. The one hour virtual show was produced by Door Knocker Media and Seed Entertainment.

“Our goal was...

1980: Dallas' Sue Ellen remembered Kristin shot J.R.

1988: Santa Barbra's Julia stopped her wedding to "Mason".

1989: Another World's Sharlene and John married.

1995: One Life to Live's Todd was shot in Ireland."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1938: Radio soap opera Central City premiered on NBC Blue. The Blackett-Sample-Hummert serial told the story of a blue-collar manufacturing hub of 50,000 denizens. Elspeth Eric starred as Emily Olson with Van Heflin as Bob Shellenberger. Heflin was eventually replaced by Myron McCormick.

1957: On The Edge of Night, Billy Harper (Pud Flanagan) accidentally overheard Mary's (Anne Sargeant) confession...

I Bury The Living

Blu-ray

Shout! Factory

1958 / B&W / 1:85 / / 76 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017

Starring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel.

Cinematography: Frederick Gately

Film Editor: Frank Sullivan

Written by Louis Garfinkle

Produced by Albert Band, Louis Garfinkle

Directed by Albert Band

I Bury the Living implicates us in a primal childhood thought-crime… what if you stepped on a crack and really did break your mother’s back? What if simply wishing someone dead made it so? Guilt, pure and simple, gives this off–kilter 50’s chiller its lasting power.

The film boasts an off–kilter leading man as well with the crater-faced Richard Boone as Robert Kraft, a small town business man railroaded into managing the family run cemetery. To make matters worse, the perennially gloomy Kraft, already skittish about his disconcerting new position, is saddled with a decrepit, unnaturally chilly workplace watched over by an unnerving bit of decoration, an...

A newlywed believes her husband's late wife still lingers in their home in The Screaming Skull, and with the 1958 horror film now out on Blu-ray from Scream Factory, we've been provided with three copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on May 2nd. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of...

Tuesday, April 25th boasts an array of diverse Blu-ray and DVD offerings with a great assortment titles both new and old. Lionsgate is releasing one of the best zombie films I’ve seen as of late, The Girl With All the Gifts, on both formats, and the most recent sequel in the Underworld franchise, Blood Wars, arrives this week on 4K Blu-ray, as well as the typical Blu and DVD discs, too.

Scream Factory is resurrecting both The Screaming Skull and I Bury the Living on Blu this Tuesday, and Arrow Video has put together a fantastic 2-Disc Special Edition set for Caltiki The Immortal Monster that fans definitely will want to pick up.

Other notable titles coming home on April 25th include a special edition release of The Vampire Bat, Mean Dreams, Detour, From Hell It Came, and Psycho Cop Returns.

Caltiki The Immortal Monster: 2-Disc Special Edition (Arrow Video,...

Variety’s “Actors on Actors” on PBS was awarded the Emmy Award for best entertainment programming at the Television Academy’s 68th Los Angeles area Emmy Awards.

This is the second win in two years for the interview series, which features pairings of prominent actors discussing their craft. “Actors on Actors” was produced by PBS SoCal in partnership with Variety Media, LLC.

Hosted by Variety‘s Jenelle Riley, the 2016 edition featured such pairings as Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellan, Will Smith and Benicio del Toro and Amy Schumer and Lily Tomlin.

The winners of this year’s LA Area Emmy Awards were announced Saturday night at the TV Academy’s newly renovated Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.

NBC4 was the evening’s big winner with 8 awards, followed by Kmex, Kvea and Time Warner Cable SportsNet L.A. with 5 trophies each.

The rest of the winners are:...

Eleanor Parker today: Beautiful as ever in Scaramouche, Interrupted Melody Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 in ten days (June 26, 2013), can be seen at her most radiantly beautiful in several films Turner Classic Movies is showing this evening and tomorrow morning as part of their Star of the Month Eleanor Parker "tribute." Among them are the classic Scaramouche, the politically delicate Above and Beyond, and the biopic Interrupted Melody, which earned Parker her third and final Best Actress Academy Award nomination. (Photo: publicity shot of Eleanor Parker in Scaramouche.) The best of the lot is probably George Sidney’s balletic Scaramouche (1952), in which Eleanor Parker plays one of Stewart Granger’s love interests — the other one is Janet Leigh. A loose remake of Rex Ingram’s 1923 blockbuster, the George Sidney version features plenty of humor, romance, and adventure; vibrant colors (cinematography by Charles Rosher); an elaborately staged climactic swordfight; and tough dudes...

Movies from the “golden age” of black and white films (approximately the 1930’s through the 1950’s) almost invariably contain well-written dialogue and strikingly subtle humor, making them a favorite among many fans of cinema. The horror movies of this more subtle period in film history are therefore of a cerebral nature, primarily relying on the viewer’s imagination to generate the true sense of horror that modern movies generate through more visual means. It is these oft-ignored horror movies that will be the focus of a series of articles detailing the reasons why true fans of horror movies should rediscover these films.

With this 6th installment in the Forgotten B&W Horror series, we take a look at a little known movie with a couple of interesting twists.

The Screaming Skull (1958), with a cast of unknown actors, tells the tale of a widower and his new bride as they begin...