Christian Tafdrup’s bleak Speak No Evil will undoubtedly draw some comparisons to nihilistic horror satires like Michael Haneke’s Funny Games. Both seek to make the viewer deeply uncomfortable while sending a caustic message. But while the latter chastised its audience for their consumption of violence, the former struggles with its polite society messaging. It results in a grueling
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History lives and breathes, not only within us but also as we uncover new ways to see and understand the past. These picture books introduce young readers to fresh, vital perspectives on Black history. ★ Born on the Water Readers are in for a sweeping history lesson that spans centuries in The 1619 Project: Born
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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Will Yun Lee and Mark and Christine Holder’s Seoul Street has acquired rights to Silver Phoenix author Cindy Pon’s bestselling sci-fi novels Want and sequel Ruse for development as an international television series. The book series, published by Simon & Schuster under their YA banner Pulse, explores a divided society
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Pamela Anderson is splitting from her fourth husband — bodyguard Dan Hayhurst — following their secret Vancouver Island nuptials on Christmas Eve in 2020. Multiple entertainment publications, including People and Rolling Stone, confirmed the news via Anderson’s representative. Read more: Meat Loaf, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ rock star, dead at 74 Anderson, 54, and Hayhurst
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The shadow of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 murder mystery Rear Window looms large over Chloe Okuno’s nail-biting Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition entry, Watcher — but this debut feature is much more than homage. In fact, quite a few other suspense classics get the nod in the film’s trim 95-minute running time. Still, Watcher is very much
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The last few years have been ones of reckoning, and two of the topics under review were, first, how we treated our pop stars at the turn of the century and, second, how we understand women’s rage. To simplify and generalize, the collective conclusions were, respectively, not well and we don’t really.  Those two conversations
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Adrian Halen 01/21/2022 Music Desultory were part of the first wave of Swedish Deah Metal next to Entombed and Dismember. Their debut “Into Eternity” originally released in 1993 is still a standard in the Death Metal scene and must-have for every collection of pure Swedish-styled Death Metal. Also, the follow-up “Bitterness” is in the same
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Originally created by Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe has inspired legions of hardboiled PIs. His clipped storytelling style is often mimicked but never bettered. So when a skilled author like Joe Ide comes along and writes a novel about the character, we sit up and pay attention. Will it be authentic to the Chandler style? At
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Universal Pictures’ Billy Eichner romantic comedy Bros has moved from August 12 this year to September 30. The news comes after Paramount today moved Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 from that September 30 date to July 14, 2023. Bros is the only major studio release on September 30, the weekend before Sony/Marvel’s animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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News Fugees Cancel Reunion Tour Due to COVID-19 “An idea sparked to honor and celebrate this 25th anniversary of The Score but we see now it may not currently be our time for revisiting this past work” By Matthew Strauss January 21, 2022 Facebook Twitter Fugees’ Pras Michel, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and Wyclef Jean, September
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