Rachel Scott, one of the 12 students killed in the Columbine shooting, was a devout Christian whose journals and other writings and drawings were published posthumously as an example of an inspirational story about living in faith. They’ve served as the foundation for Rachel’s Challenge, a Christian nonprofit that does presentations at schools, using her life as an inspiring example. There’s some doubt about whether Scott actually defiantly reaffirmed her faith just before being shot by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, but the Rachel’s Challenge organization has successfully used her story to make presentations to, by their count, 22 million people, preaching the virtues of non-controversial things like standing against bullying.
I’m Not Ashamed is the latest film from Christian films powerhouse PureFlix, and to some extent it serves as an extended infomercial for the nonprofit, but the title indicates the level of paranoia that ...
I’m Not Ashamed is the latest film from Christian films powerhouse PureFlix, and to some extent it serves as an extended infomercial for the nonprofit, but the title indicates the level of paranoia that ...
- 10/21/2016
- by Vadim Rizov
- avclub.com
Filmmakers behind an upcoming Christian-themed movie that recreates a portion of the Columbine High School shooting are going to war with YouTube, which for months took down the film’s trailer and suspended the entire channel for reasons the company has so far refused to disclose. The movie, I’m Not Ashamed, is the true story of Rachel Joy Scott, the first victim killed by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris when they attacked their fellow students in Columbine, Colo. in 1999. The filmmakers are accusing YouTube of anti-Christian bias and say that YouTube ignored not only their requests to reinstate
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- 9/30/2016
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One month after he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing an unarmed man during a 2015 sting operation, a former Oklahoma sheriff's deputy was sentenced Tuesday to a four-year prison term, People confirms. During this week's sentencing before Judge Bill Musseman, Robert Gates, 74, received the maximum penalty recommended by the jurors who convicted him late last month, according to court records obtained by People. Gates, an insurance executive who'd served as a reserve officer for the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, told investigators he confused his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot 44-year-old Eric Harris. The...
- 6/1/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
One month after he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing an unarmed man during a 2015 sting operation, a former Oklahoma sheriff's deputy was sentenced Tuesday to a four-year prison term, People confirms. During this week's sentencing before Judge Bill Musseman, Robert Gates, 74, received the maximum penalty recommended by the jurors who convicted him late last month, according to court records obtained by People. Gates, an insurance executive who'd served as a reserve officer for the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, told investigators he confused his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot 44-year-old Eric Harris. The...
- 6/1/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
For Austin Eubanks, getting shot at Columbine High School 17 years ago was only the beginning of his troubles. During the 1999 massacre, which killed 13 and injured 24, Eubanks was shot in the hand and knee and was prescribed painkillers at the hospital. Within three months, he says he was addicted to a variety of opioids and other drugs. Years of problems followed, including arrests, unstable employment, the demise of his marriage and his estrangement from his two young sons. But after several attempts at recovery, Eubanks, 34, is now celebrating five years of sobriety and for the first time since the massacre is...
- 5/12/2016
- by Hilary Shenfeld, @HilaryShen
- PEOPLE.com
For Austin Eubanks, getting shot at Columbine High School 17 years ago was only the beginning of his troubles. During the 1999 massacre, which killed 13 and injured 24, Eubanks was shot in the hand and knee and was prescribed painkillers at the hospital. Within three months, he says he was addicted to a variety of opioids and other drugs. Years of problems followed, including arrests, unstable employment, the demise of his marriage and his estrangement from his two young sons. But after several attempts at recovery, Eubanks, 34, is now celebrating five years of sobriety and for the first time since the massacre is...
- 5/12/2016
- by Hilary Shenfeld, @HilaryShen
- PEOPLE.com
Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold, spoke out about the guilt she still lives with over her son's deadly attack an emotional interview with Diane Sawyer Friday night. "I am so sorry for what my son did, yet I know that just saying that I'm sorry is so inadequate," Klebold, 66, said on 20/20. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't feel bad about the kids that he harmed." "It's very hard to live with the fact that someone you loved and raised has brutally killed people in such a horrific way. In his last moments he was hateful and cruel.
- 2/13/2016
- by Julie Mazziotta, @julietmazz
- PEOPLE.com
Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was paralyzed from the waist down in the 1999 school shooting, says she harbors no grudge against Sue Klebold, the mother of one of the two shooters, ahead of Klebold's interview on 20/20 Friday night. Hochhalter, 29, posted an open letter to Klebold on Facebook Thursday, to let Klebold know that she holds no anger towards her. "I have no ill-will towards you," Hochhalter writes. "Just as I wouldn't want to be judged by the sins of my family members, I hold you in that same regard." "A good friend once told me, 'Bitterness is like swallowing...
- 2/12/2016
- by Julie Mazziotta, @julietmazz
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was paralyzed from the waist down in the 1999 school shooting, says she harbors no grudge against Sue Klebold, the mother of one of the two shooters, ahead of Klebold's interview on 20/20 Friday night. Hochhalter, 29, posted an open letter to Klebold on Facebook Thursday, to let Klebold know that she holds no anger towards her. "I have no ill-will towards you," Hochhalter writes. "Just as I wouldn't want to be judged by the sins of my family members, I hold you in that same regard." "A good friend once told me,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Julie Mazziotta, @julietmazz
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos For nearly two decades, Sue Klebold has tried to wrap her head around why her son 17-year-old Dylan, along with Eric Harris, 18, killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. "I just remember sitting there and reading about them, all these kids and the teacher," Klebold said an exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an upcoming special edition of 20/20, which airs Friday at 10 p.m. "And I keep thinking - constantly thought how I would feel if it were the other way around and one of their children had shot mine.
- 2/12/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos For nearly two decades, Sue Klebold has tried to wrap her head around why her son 17-year-old Dylan, along with Eric Harris, 18, killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. "I just remember sitting there and reading about them, all these kids and the teacher," Klebold said an exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an upcoming special edition of 20/20, which airs Friday at 10 p.m. "And I keep thinking - constantly thought how I would feel if it were the other way around and one of their children had shot mine.
- 2/12/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Tonight, the mother of one of America’s most notorious school shooters appears on television for the first time in an interview given to ABC’s Diane Sawyer. The riveting hour will air during a special edition of 20/20 on Friday at 10pm Et/9pm Ct. It’s been nearly 17 years since Sue Klebold’s son Dylan and his friend killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. On April 20, 1999, 17-year-old Dylan and his 18 year-old friend, Eric Harris, clad in black trench coats and shot their way through the school, executing friends, foes and strangers. The duo had planned … Continue reading →
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- 2/12/2016
- by Kellie Freeze
- ChannelGuideMag
Bryce Williams/Vester Flanagan said the Charleston Church shooting in June spurred his homicidal rage ... which exploded this morning when he took the lives of a Virginia reporter and photographer. ABC News in NYC says it received a 23-page fax from Williams this morning -- almost 2 hours after he had killed Alison Parker and Adam Ward. In the document ... he says he put a down payment on a gun on June 19, 2 days after the Charleston tragedy.
- 8/26/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
If 2014 was the year black oppression began to illustrate for the world that Black Lives Matter, the summer of 2015 is the time to show that blackness also exists worldwide beyond pain – it can be funny, beautiful and life-affirming too
Heading into this summer we need black heroes and black superheroes, in art and in real life, more than ever. And lucky for us, they’re turning up worldwide in comic books, on movie and TV screens, splashed across canvasses, and shimmying up flagpoles just when we need them. The castings of Michael B Jordan and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Marvel movies might sound disconnected from the Black Lives Matter movement or the toppling of the Confederate flag, but they’re not.
The connective tissue of being black worldwide in 2015, and the experiences of living in brown skin in images transmitted from McKinney, Texas, to the Mediterranean sea, is often riddled with pain,...
Heading into this summer we need black heroes and black superheroes, in art and in real life, more than ever. And lucky for us, they’re turning up worldwide in comic books, on movie and TV screens, splashed across canvasses, and shimmying up flagpoles just when we need them. The castings of Michael B Jordan and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Marvel movies might sound disconnected from the Black Lives Matter movement or the toppling of the Confederate flag, but they’re not.
The connective tissue of being black worldwide in 2015, and the experiences of living in brown skin in images transmitted from McKinney, Texas, to the Mediterranean sea, is often riddled with pain,...
- 7/1/2015
- by Steven W Thrasher
- The Guardian - Film News
Bob Bates, a Tulsa, Okla., reserve deputy, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing unarmed black suspect Eric Harris earlier this month. Bob Bates, Tulsa Deputy, Charged Bates, 73, a successful insurance executive by day, who served as a reserve deputy on the side, participated in a sting operation in Tulsa on April 2 that […]
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- 4/14/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
The journal was chilling. "I'm homicidal and I'm fine with that," said one entry. In another, the writer spoke about specific students at Radnor High, a small school 13 miles west of Philadelphia, police have said. "I want to trap them, pick them off one by one," it said. "Blow up the cafeteria, shoot everyone in classrooms. Imagine the power, the bullets leaving the gun with a loud bang, piercing kids around me, the way they collapse, their blood splattering the floor … the screams." For page after page, the author of the journal wrote about murderous plans. "I could be the first female shooter,...
- 11/5/2014
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
The journal was chilling. "I'm homicidal and I'm fine with that," said one entry. In another, the writer spoke about specific students at Radnor High, a small school 13 miles west of Philadelphia, police have said. "I want to trap them, pick them off one by one," it said. "Blow up the cafeteria, shoot everyone in classrooms. Imagine the power, the bullets leaving the gun with a loud bang, piercing kids around me, the way they collapse, their blood splattering the floor … the screams." For page after page, the author of the journal wrote about murderous plans. "I could be the first female shooter,...
- 11/5/2014
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
*Warning – this article contains spoilers*
It seems somewhat futile to describe Matt Johnson’s The Dirties as being pertinent. What with the recent, tragic shooting spree in California, the continuing debate of films inspiring violence returns yet again – and it’s a notion that Johnson’s directorial debut intricately studies, and ultimately, rejects. The contentious, imaginative feature is putting the audience in the perpetrator’s position, and it’s this provoking of sympathy for such a character, which has stimulated such discussion.
“I was watching documentaries about Columbine and the home movies that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had made, school projects of them making Tarantino-type movies, and watching those, I thought, I am exactly like this kid,” Johnson told HeyUGuys. “I’m exactly like him. We made the same jokes, we had a lot of the same expressions, we were making movies in the same way, especially when I was that age.
It seems somewhat futile to describe Matt Johnson’s The Dirties as being pertinent. What with the recent, tragic shooting spree in California, the continuing debate of films inspiring violence returns yet again – and it’s a notion that Johnson’s directorial debut intricately studies, and ultimately, rejects. The contentious, imaginative feature is putting the audience in the perpetrator’s position, and it’s this provoking of sympathy for such a character, which has stimulated such discussion.
“I was watching documentaries about Columbine and the home movies that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had made, school projects of them making Tarantino-type movies, and watching those, I thought, I am exactly like this kid,” Johnson told HeyUGuys. “I’m exactly like him. We made the same jokes, we had a lot of the same expressions, we were making movies in the same way, especially when I was that age.
- 6/5/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It’s no surprise that Kevin Smith was at Comic-Con this past year, but this year he decided to bring a different kind of film to his Hall H panel. The Dirties, a film that Smith says is “the best movie you’ll see all year” is a controversial dramady, about two best friends named Matt and Owen, who live in a world of endless movie references and hijinks. It would be perfect, if not for the cruel bullies at their high school who make their lives hell. While working on a movie for class, the lines between fiction and reality blur together in this horrifying look at high school bullying.
Before his Hall H debut, Kevin Smith and Matt Johnson (writer, director, and star of the film) met with a handful of press to talk about the film, and the state of filmmaking today, and Wamg was there. Before you even ask…...
Before his Hall H debut, Kevin Smith and Matt Johnson (writer, director, and star of the film) met with a handful of press to talk about the film, and the state of filmmaking today, and Wamg was there. Before you even ask…...
- 10/9/2013
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Two iconic cinematic monsters came to television this year, and while NBC's Hannibal made psychoanalysis an overt element of its story, A&E's Bates Motel required the audience to play armchair psychologist and engage in an incredibly timely conversation about what turns kids into killers. That question proved incredibly attractive to Bates Motel star Vera Farmiga, who was also tasked with altering public opinion of Norma Bates, the woman largely held responsible for Norman's murderous mentality.
The result was, at once, a fascinating depiction of psychological dysfunction and a powerful story about familial dedication. Throughout the tension-filled first season, Farmiga delivered a complex, confounding and colorful performance that is poised to place her in Emmy's very competitive Best Actress in a Drama category.
ETonline talked with the Oscar-nominee about the appeal of building a character on television, get her take on Norma's unique relationship with Norman and find out what she's hoping to explore further in season...
The result was, at once, a fascinating depiction of psychological dysfunction and a powerful story about familial dedication. Throughout the tension-filled first season, Farmiga delivered a complex, confounding and colorful performance that is poised to place her in Emmy's very competitive Best Actress in a Drama category.
ETonline talked with the Oscar-nominee about the appeal of building a character on television, get her take on Norma's unique relationship with Norman and find out what she's hoping to explore further in season...
- 6/27/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
The Dirties won Best Narrative Feature and the Spirit of Slamdance Award at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, and made its way this week to the Dallas International Film Festival. While producer and cinematographer Jared Raab was in Dallas, writer/director and lead actor Matthew Johnson was at a screening at the Victoria TX Independent Film Festival (Vtxiff).
The Dirties revolves around two friends who share a passion for movies, Matt (Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams). They are subjected to constant bullying while working on a movie for a high-school class project. After their initial film fails, the boys decide to create a revenge movie around their real-life antagonists, whom they refer to as "The Dirties." While Owen reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, Matt becomes obsessed as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
Johnson and writer/producer Matthew Miller drew inspiration for The Dirties from the 1992 French satire Man Bites Dog,...
The Dirties revolves around two friends who share a passion for movies, Matt (Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams). They are subjected to constant bullying while working on a movie for a high-school class project. After their initial film fails, the boys decide to create a revenge movie around their real-life antagonists, whom they refer to as "The Dirties." While Owen reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, Matt becomes obsessed as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
Johnson and writer/producer Matthew Miller drew inspiration for The Dirties from the 1992 French satire Man Bites Dog,...
- 4/10/2013
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
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