This weekend, the Portland International Film Festival returns for its 44th year, after a truncated 2020 iteration and brief fall revival. Rather than retreat to a fully virtual model, the NW Film Center has opted for a hybrid presentation: certain titles will be screened at a Zidell Yards drive-in, and others will be available online for the festival s full March 5â14 duration. In addition to a robust program of shorts and features, PIFF will also offer a pair of virtualspecial events.
Keeping with NW Film Center executive director Amy Dotsonâs commitment to cinema unbound,  films range from the local to the national to the international, and the drive-in will screen old classics likeÂ
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Itâs nearly a year since Disney+ made its way to the UK in what must surely rank as one of the most fortuitously timed launches in media history. Just as Britain went into its first Covid-19 lockdown, harried parents were suddenly presented with approximately a zillion hours of Disney and Disney-adjacent streaming content, from classic animation to National Geographic to
The Mandalorian.
Child-free adults with little interest in family fare, however, could safely give it a miss. Cue the arrival of Star, a separate hub of grown-up programming within the service, where Disneyâs takeover of 20th Century Studios, Touchstone Pictures and the ABC television network, among others, comes into play. Star launches on Tuesday with more than 270 films and 70 series, largely pulled from the recent archives: a thousand more titles are promised within the first year. You canât have Star without the rest of Disney+, or vice versa: that me
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House GameStop Hearing Delves Into Robinhood, Reddit And WallStreetBets Deadline 2/19/2021
Vlad Tenev, founder of retail stock trading app Robinhood, told a House Committee on Thursday that “the financial system should be open to everyone,” including frenzied buyers of GameStop and AMC Entertainment whipped up by a Reddit chatroom.
He apologized profusely that a funding rule had forced the app to subsequently block share purchases – a temporary restriction that was a focus of the five-hour hearing today. The stocks fell and some Robinhood users lost their shirts.
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Tenev was testifying before the House Financial Services Committee alongside the CEO of a hedge fund that made a killing on GameStop (Kenneth Griffin, Citadel LLC) and another that lost big in a short squeeze (Gabriel Plotkin, Melvin Capital). Individual investor Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty from his YouTube videos and Reddit posts, bought GameStop and touted it on Reddit’s colorful W
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