Month: May 2022

Film Review: ‘Montana Story’: The Uneasy Family Ties That Bind

R | 1h 54min | Drama, Mystery | 27 May 2022 (USA) Had creator and show runner Taylor Sheridan chosen another name for his wildly popular Paramount+ TV series “Yellowstone,” it could have just as easily been “Montana Story.” Like this film with that name, it includes a patriarch with a lot of baggage (emotional and otherwise), siblings with emotional scars, and…


Central Banks Were ‘Too Complacent’ About Inflation Last Year: Singapore Prime Minister

The central banks took a relaxed approach toward inflation last year and must now take “drastic measures” to deal with the current high inflation, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. Lee said in an interview with Nikkei Asia that the global economy had recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic faster than projected, in…


Cinema Film Review: ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Paper Route’

58m | Documentary | 2021   It doesn’t matter what branch of the United States Armed Forces you’re in; being assigned overseas can make you yearn for home…badly. Especially if you’re a young buck and it’s your first time being far away from home. Being in a combat zone on top of that can exacerbate…


Cinema Film Review: ‘No Time to Run’

1h 35m | Drama, Sci-Fi | 2020 As I watched the credits roll at the end of director Eric Williams’s well-made drama “No Time to Run,” I realized that I couldn’t recall a film that so accurately captured the tumultuous gestalt of our modern times. It encapsulates many of the issues that are not only…


White House Scrambles to Roll Back Biden’s Vow to Defend Taiwan

White House officials scrambled to roll back comments made by President Joe Biden on May 23, when he said that the United States would defend Taiwan militarily in the event of an invasion by China. White House staff said that Biden was only reiterating the United States’ policy that it would provide military equipment to…


Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Taco Bell Worker in Overtime Dispute

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against a Taco Bell franchise operator on May 23, finding a federal appeals court exceeded its authority in fashioning an arbitration-related rule in a fast-food employee’s class-action lawsuit over overtime pay. The lawsuit went forward in federal court but the company involved waited almost eight months before invoking the arbitration…


Will NAC Become a Banned Supplement?

Following the FDA’s 2020 attack on NAC, excluding it from the definition of dietary supplements, new draft guidance suggests the agency isn’t going to enforce the ban and may restore this beneficial compound to its prior supplement status. Story at-a-glance The U.S. Food and Drug Administration suddenly cracked down on NAC in 2020, claiming it…


1 Killed, 3 Hurt in 300-Foot Fall From Cliff in Palos Verdes

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif.—One person was killed and three were injured May 23 when they fell about 300 feet from a cliff in Palos Verdes Estates. The fall was reported at 4:42 a.m. in the 1400 block of Paseo Del Mar, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Martin Rangel. Fire department helicopters were…


To Change the Left, Be Their Psychiatrist

Commentary One of the most difficult things to do is to change someone’s mind about the issues of the day that are so crucial to us. Changing someone’s ideology, if you can call it that, is even harder. Most of us want to do it, but few of us can, especially when it comes to…


Monkeypox Outbreak Primarily Spreading via Sexual Contact: WHO Officials

The recent outbreak of the monkeypox virus in North America and Europe is primarily spreading through sex, according to World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday, while confirming about 200 cases so far. The virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, but WHO officials said the recent surge in cases is linked to homosexual…