Nury Martinez stepped down from the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday in the aftermath of a leaked recording on which she was heard making racist and bigoted remarks. “An event that everyone at the time saw as manifestly disqualifying got repackaged as no big deal, and also somehow ‘fake news.’” Republicans haven’t always turned a blind eye to scandal …
Park Chan-wook likes his violence. It’s just that spurting blood and dismembered body parts make us cover our eyes, whereas the results of emotional violence produce reactions that are far less extreme. A conman who calls himself “Count Fujiwara” enlists an impoverished young woman, a thief’s daughter named Sook-hee, in his scheme to swindle Lady Hideko of her vast wealth. …
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