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Emily Blunt Terrific In ‘A Quiet Place’; Might Be The Scariest This Year
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State Files Appeal Over Judge’s Order To Create New Voter Restoration System
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Last week, U. S. District Judge Mark E. Walker is- sued a permanent injunction that requires Governor Rick Scott and the Execu- tive Clemency Board to cre- ate a new voter rights restoration process. Judge Walker gave the panel 30 days to create the process.
On Wednesday, Attor- ney General Pam Bondi filed an appeal with the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit “from the final order and judgment en- tered in this action on March 27, 2018. She filed the appeal on behalf of herself, Gover- nor Rick Scott, Commis- sioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam, and Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis.
All four, who make up the Clemency Board, were named as defendants in the
class action lawsuit James Michael Hand vs. Rick Scott in his capacity as Governor and Members of the Executive Clemency Board, et al, last March.
Governor Scott said in a press release, “The Attor- ney General’s Office has ap- pealed Judge Walker’s ruling. People elected by Floridians should determine Florida’s clemency rules for convicted criminals, not fed- eral judges.”
In his order to create a new rights restoration sys- tem, Judge Walker called the current system “fatally
flawed.” Judge Walker in- structed the Clemency Board to “establish specific and neutral criteria to direct voter restoration decisions and meaningful specific and expeditious time con- straints.”
Judge Walker issued the judgment in response to a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the 7 former con- victed felons who sought their voter rights restored.
Judge Walker’s ruling only pertains to the restora- tion of voter rights. Addi- tionally, the ruling does not restore the voting rights of convicted felons.
EMILY BLUNT IN “A QUIET PLACE”
The first sign that “A Quiet Place” means busi- ness comes in the opening shot, in which the words “Day 89” are flashed onto the screen. This means a movie that contains no scene of a technician in some remote outpost, looking at a com- puter and saying, “Oh . . . my . . . God.” This means no somber address to the nation by President Morgan Freeman about aliens on the march. The worst has happened already, with even more worst to come.
Now it’s just a family of five creeping through what remains of a drug store, gath- ering provisions. We notice at once that they are being re- ally, really quiet. Not only that, but they’re trying to be quiet, and every time one of them almost makes noise — almost knocks something
over, almost trips over some- thing — the mother, Emily Blunt, goes into a mortal panic.
There have been many horror films over the last cen- tury, so it’s rare that someone comes up with an original angle. A society in collapse, alien invasion, a family strug- gling to survive — these are familiar and reliable tropes in sci-fi horror. What’s different here is the nature of the in- vader. They hunt by sound. If anyone makes a noise, an alien shows up immediately, as if materializing out of the air, and attacks.
So “A Quiet Place” is the closest thing to a silent movie since “The Artist.” The movie is con- sidered by critics the scariest so far this year. Rated 100%. The film opens today (Friday) in theaters.
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