A year ago, Beat the Devils author Josh Weiss introduced the world to Morris Baker, an L.A. police detective living in an alternate history 1950s in which Joseph McCarthy was president. All sorts of things are worse under McCarthy, with hatred and paranoia at the forefront of America. Now the book has spawned a sequel that delves more into the Hollywood of an imagined past.
Sunset Empire arrives Tuesday, and finds Morris Baker living as a private investigator seeking to solve a missing person’s case as the Korean War rages on. The missing person? Henry Kissinger.
Morris Baker is personal for Weiss, who loosely based the character off of his late grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
“While the world of Morris Baker takes place in an alternate timeline, the core takeaway is how blind hatred endures via endless cycles that we as a species seem doomed to repeat until the end of time,...
Sunset Empire arrives Tuesday, and finds Morris Baker living as a private investigator seeking to solve a missing person’s case as the Korean War rages on. The missing person? Henry Kissinger.
Morris Baker is personal for Weiss, who loosely based the character off of his late grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
“While the world of Morris Baker takes place in an alternate timeline, the core takeaway is how blind hatred endures via endless cycles that we as a species seem doomed to repeat until the end of time,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It feels as though David Fincher needs to get back to the movies and make us cringe once again in the best of ways. If you don’t know the name then maybe you’d know who he is by watching a few of his movies so that you can fully appreciate just what he’s done and what he’s given to pop culture. Josh Weiss of SyFyWire sums it up nicely by stating that Fincher has a unique take on society and shows this in his movies. To think that he moved away from this to focus on a career that now
It’s Time for David Fincher to Blow us Away with a Movie Again...
It’s Time for David Fincher to Blow us Away with a Movie Again...
- 7/14/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Above photo: Josh Weiss/jweisscreative.com
By Thomas White and Tamara Krinsky
Fundraising guru Morrie Warshawski attracted a substantial baudience to The Standard in downtown Los Angeles this past weekend, as Ida presented a day-long edition of its Doc U series. Warshawski, whose book Shaking the Money Tree, an essential tome for anyone seeking to raise funds for their films, is now in its third edition, took the participants through the process, breaking up the seminar on occasion for a few hands-on exercises. At the end of the day, the filmmakers left the ...
By Thomas White and Tamara Krinsky
Fundraising guru Morrie Warshawski attracted a substantial baudience to The Standard in downtown Los Angeles this past weekend, as Ida presented a day-long edition of its Doc U series. Warshawski, whose book Shaking the Money Tree, an essential tome for anyone seeking to raise funds for their films, is now in its third edition, took the participants through the process, breaking up the seminar on occasion for a few hands-on exercises. At the end of the day, the filmmakers left the ...
- 4/22/2010
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
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