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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSound of Freedom director Alejandro Monteverde has broken his silence following the widespread controversy surrounding the sleeper hit.The film is purported to …
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More than a month after his indie thriller Sound of Freedom premiered in theaters, setting off waves of hype, criticism, and conspiracy theories, director Alejandro Monteverde has weighed in on the film’s runaway success and defended its portrayal of child sex trafficking. Organizations leading the …
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The movie “Sound of Freedom” has become a surprising summer hit at the U.S. box office, but Mexican director Alejandro Gómez Monteverde said his film is making all the wrong headlines because of political divisions off-screen. Instead, he said, his intention was to rally viewers from different …
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Sound of Freedom, this summer’s surprise hit movie about a U.S. government agent who takes down a global cabal of child sex traffickers, has attracted a ton of attention due to its box office success and the eyebrow-raising liberties it takes with portraying child trafficking.The star of the film, …
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I live in a mostly left-leaning area in the Northeastern United States. Ninety percent of my precinct voted for Joe Biden in the most recent Presidential election. This morning, I was walking to a coffee shop when a man sitting in a folding chair on the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette, informed me …
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Despite its status as the highest-grossing indie film since 2019’s “Parasite,” “Sound of Freedom” has been dismissed as a QAnon fever dream by large swaths of the mainstream media. But that derisive label is “so ridiculous” to the film’s writer-director Alejandro Monteverde, who began working on …
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In my most recent nonfiction book, “Operation Mindf**k: QAnon & the Cult of Donald Trump,” I focused extensively on a “QTuber” named Rick Rene, because I viewed him then and now as the perfectly imperfect microcosm of the entire messed-up QAnon universe, which perceives the Democratic Party as an …
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A common complaint from the rightward flank of America’s culture wars is that conservative voices are absent from contemporary pop culture. Like the devil, they mutter, the left has all the best tunes. Hollywood, the music industry, the mainstream media, Ivy League colleges, Silicon Valley and all …
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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin“Angel Studios understood that the best billboard for this film was going to be word of mouth. I became a little pain for them…We agree to disagree.” Alejandro Monteverde should be thrilled, having co-written and directed the sleeper hit of the …
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Just a few years ago, no more than 10,000 supporters of the QAnon conspiracy myth were chatting in the darker corners of the internet. I first started monitoring them from the inside in 2017. Adherents of the Great Replacement myth were meeting up for secretive meetings in Airbnbs or the back rooms …
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