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Exposed (2016 Film)
''Exposed'' (originally titled ''Daughter of God'') is a 2016 American thriller film, written and directed by Gee Malik Linton (credited as Declan Dale, when he argued against the final edit changing the entire focus of the film), in his directorial debut. The film stars Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Christopher McDonald, Big Daddy Kane, and Mira Sorvino. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on January 22, 2016, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Plot An NYPD police officer, Detective Galban, investigates the circumstances behind the death of his partner, Detective Joey Cullen. The mysterious case leads to an attempted police cover-up and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman. The two parallel story lines initially appear to have little in common, but as events gradually unfold in the two separate urban worlds, the young woman, Isabel De La Cruz, appears to somehow be involved in the detective's demise. Detective Cullen was depraved a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gee Malik Linton
Gee Malik Linton (born December 9, 1973) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Career Born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jamaican family, Gee Malik Linton majored in physics in college and was pursuing a master's degree until he sold a screenplay and switched to filmmaking. Beginning his career writing and directing short films, he then worked as a physical trainer for Tobey Maguire during ''Spider-Man'', Leonardo DiCaprio during ''The Departed'', and Anne Hathaway during ''The Dark Knight Rises''. Linton directed the 2016 thriller ''Exposed'' starring Keanu Reeves, which was mired in controversy. Throughout the writing and filming process, Linton had a different view for the movie than Lionsgate, the studio releasing the movie. Alterations the studio made included changing the name from the original ''Daughter of God'' to ''Exposed'', as well as changing the focus of the movie onto the character played by Keanu Reeves during the editing process. These unwanted c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video On Demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films Digital distribution, digitally on request. These multimedia are accessed without a traditional video playback device and a typical static broadcasting schedule, which was popular under traditional broadcast programming, instead involving newer modes of content consumption that have risen as Internet and IPTV technologies have become prominent, and culminated in the arrival of VOD and Over-the-top media service, over-the-top (OTT) media services on televisions and personal computers. Television VOD systems can streaming media, stream content, either through a traditional set-top box or through remote devices such as computers, tablets, and smartphones. VOD users may also permanently download content to a device such as a computer, digital video recorder (DVR) or, a portable media player for continued viewing. The majority of Cable television, cable and telephone comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismael Cruz Córdova
Ismael Enrique Cruz Córdova (born April 7, 1987) is a Puerto Rican actor who gained national attention for his role as Mando on ''Sesame Street''. Other credits include ''The Good Wife'' (2011), '' In the Blood'' (2014), ''Exposed'' (2016), ''Ray Donovan'' (2016), '' Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'' (2016), ''Mary Queen of Scots'' (2018), '' Miss Bala'' (2019), ''Settlers'' (2021), '' Berlin Station'' (2018), ''The Mandalorian'' episode " Chapter 6: The Prisoner" (2019), ''The Undoing'' (2020), ''Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities'' episode "The Dreams in the Witch House" (2022), and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' (2022–present). Early years Cruz Córdova transferred to and attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts and was a resident assistant for a freshman dormitory in his senior year. Career Cruz had a role in the Showtime original series ''Ray Donovan'', and in the third season of '' Berlin Station'', as Rafael Torres, an SOG ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Hoch
Daniel Hoch (born November 23, 1970) is an American actor, writer, director, and performance artist. He has acted in larger roles in independent and art house movies and had a few small roles in mainstream Hollywood films, with increasing exposure as in 2007's '' We Own the Night''. He is also known for his one-man shows. Theatre Two of his three one-man shows, ''Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop'' and ''Some People'', were published together in 1998. In both pieces, he explores the multicultural (and multilingual) New York where he grew up, providing adept monologues in the languages of the people, Cuban Spanish, Dominican Spanish (Nuyorican), Jamaican Patois, or Trinidadian English. A prevailing theme in Hoch's work, within its spectrum of unification and deep similarities under superficial differences, is the power of hip hop. Naive or street-wise White youth believing or dreaming that they are Black, African-American kids dreaming of making it as a rapper, a Cuban street vendor' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rispoli
Michael Rispoli (born November 27, 1960) is an American character actor. He was a contender for the role of Tony Soprano in the HBO television series ''The Sopranos,'' but was ultimately cast as Jackie Aprile Sr., Jackie Aprile, a recurring character in the show's first season. Rispoli reunited with ''Sopranos'' co-star James Gandolfini in the 2009 thriller ''The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 film), The Taking of Pelham 123''. He was a series regular on the HBO series ''The Deuce (TV series), The Deuce.'' Early life and education Rispoli, a second-generation Italian American, was raised in Tappan, New York, one of eight children, and attended Tappan Zee High School, where he played football.Rodriguez, Justin"Actor trades Hollywood glitz for life in Pine Bush" ''Times Herald-Record'', July 26, 2014. Accessed October 27, 2018. "Rispoli actually first heard of Pine Bush as a senior at Tappan Zee High School in 1977.... Michael Rispoli fell in love with Pine Bush. It reminded him of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Gómez (actress)
Laura Gómez is a Dominican actress. Gómez is known for her role as Blanca Flores in the Netflix comedy-drama series, ''Orange Is the New Black'' (2013–2019). Early years Born in New Jersey, United States, Gómez grew up in Santo Domingo working as an actress and reporter. She moved to New York at the age of 21 to study acting and filmmaking at the New York University. After three years in the United States, she made her entry into theater and voice work. Career Gómez began her career appearing in Dominican film ''Víctimas del poder'' (1998) and later worked on Mexican telenovela '' Por tu amor''. She made her American television debut appearing in an episode of ''Law & Order'' in 2008. In 2011, Gómez was awarded an IX Screenwriting Developing Grant by the Spanish ''Fundación Carolina''. She wrote, directed and produced the short films ''To Kill A Roach''—for which she received the NYU Fall 2012 Technisphere Award for Outstanding Achievement—and ''Hallelujah''. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychogenic Amnesia
Dissociative amnesia or psychogenic amnesia is a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature." The concept is scientifically controversial and remains disputed. Dissociative amnesia was previously known as psychogenic amnesia, a memory disorder, which was characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years to decades. The atypical clinical syndrome of the memory disorder (as opposed to organic amnesia) is that a person with psychogenic amnesia is profoundly unable to remember personal information about themselves; there is a lack of conscious self-knowledge which affects even simple self-knowledge, such as who they are. Psychogenic amnesia is distinguished from organic amnesia in that it is supposed to result from a nonorganic cause: no structural brain damage should be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent ( statutory rape). The term ''rape'' is sometimes casually used interchangeably with the term ''sexual assault''. The rate of reporting, prosecuting and convicting for rape varies between jurisdictions. Internationally, the incidence of rapes recorded by the police during 2008 ranged, per 100,000 people, from 0.2 in Azerbaijan to 92.9 in Botswana with 6.3 in Lithuania as the median. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traumatic Memories
The management of traumatic memories is important when treating mental health disorders such as post traumatic stress disorder. Traumatic memories can cause life problems even to individuals who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for a mental health disorder. They result from traumatic experiences, including natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis; violent events such as kidnapping, terrorist attacks, war, domestic abuse and rape. Traumatic memories are naturally stressful in nature and emotionally overwhelm people's existing coping mechanisms. When simple objects such as a photograph, or events such as a birthday party, bring traumatic memories to mind people often try to bar the unwanted experience from their minds so as to proceed with life, with varying degrees of success. The frequency of these reminders diminish over time for most people. There are strong individual differences in the rate at which the adjustment occurs. For some the number of intrusive memories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incest
Incest ( ) is sexual intercourse, sex between kinship, close relatives, for example a brother, sister, or parent. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by lineage (anthropology), lineage. It is condemned and considered immoral in many societies. It can lead to an increased risk of genetic disorders in children in case of pregnancy from incestuous sex. The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of all cultural taboos, both in present and in past societies. Most modern societies have laws regarding incest or social restrictions on closely consanguineous marriages. In societies where it is illegal, consensual adult incest is seen by some as a victimless crime. Some cultures extend the incest taboo to relatives with no consanguinity, such as Milk kinship, milk-siblings, stepsiblings, and adoptive siblings, albeit sometimes with less intensity. Third-degree relatives (such as half-aunt, half-nephew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in Human sexual activity, sexual activities with a child (whether by asking or pressuring, or by other means), indecent exposure, child grooming, and child sexual exploitation, such as using a child to produce child pornography. CSA is not confined to specific settings; it permeates various institutions and communities. CSA affects children in all socioeconomic levels, across all racial, ethnic, and cultural groups, and in both rural and urban areas. In places where child labor is common, CSA is not restricted to one individual setting; it passes through a multitude of institutions and communities. This includes but is not limited to schools, homes, and online spaces where adolescents are exposed to abuse and exploitation. Child marriage is one of the main forms of child sexual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
