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Tyler Perry has locked down his next big feature. According to Variety, the multi-hyphenate has signed on to write and direct Netflix’s Six Triple Eight, a World War II drama about an all-Black, all-women battalion that served overseas. The screenplay is based on a Kevin M. Hymel article published in WWII History Magazine by Sovereign Media. The film will tell the inspiring story of the […]
Christopher Nolan said he considers his upcoming film Oppenheimer to be “one of the most challenging projects” he has ever taken on. Of course, the filmmaker isn’t doing himself any favors. Nolan revealed in an interview with Total Film that he recreated the first nuclear weapon detonation without relying on CGI effects. “I think recreating the Trinity test […]
A 101-year-old German man has been sentenced to prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. The Washington Post reports the man, identified as Josef S. by German media, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison after being convicted on over 3,500 counts of accessory to murder. The man, […]
Washington Commanders player Jonathan Allen took to Twitter to apologize after answering a fan’s question by saying he’d want to have dinner with Hitler, who he went on to dub a “military genius.” “Early I tweeted something that probably hurt people and I apologize about what I said,” Allen wrote Wednesday afternoon. “I didn’t express properly what […]
Whoopi Goldberg expressed her “sincerest apologies” on Twitter Monday after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t “about race” in a recent segment on The View. Her comments came as the show’s hosts were discussing a Tennessee school district banning Art Spiegelman’s poignant graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus. After the panelists focused on whether nudity—cited as a reason to cease teaching […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A 96-year-old woman who once served as a secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was arrested […]
A former high school student is being charged with two counts of third-degree computer crimes after unlawfully accessing his school’s computer database, putting a quote from Adolf Hitler in the yearbook, and attributing it to George Floyd. According to the New York Post, 18-year-old Connecticut high school grad Hollister Tryon submitted the following quote: “It is a […]
A World War II-era plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the ocean over the weekend at an air show in Florida. The plane, described in a regional Florida Today report as a single-engine TBM Avenger, was a part of the fleet for the Cocoa Beach Air Show on Saturday when the pilot […]
The Department of Justice is still working to eradicate people who committed Nazi war crimes during the Holocaust. The latest person to be deported is a 95-year-old Tennessee man who worked as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. CBS News reports that Friedrich Karl Berger—who’s lived in the U.S. since 1959—was flown […]
Saturn, an alligator who was the subject of an urban legend that claimed he was once Adolf Hitler’s pet, has died at (or around) the age of 84. He was living at the Moscow Zoo at the time of said death, which happened on Friday. Saturn, whose obituary is being published in many national outlets […]
