‘Army of Thieves’ Film Review: Euro Heist Caper Feels Crushingly Generic

HUDs connected to our contact lenses. Poppy leaves digital post-it notes around the house for Cameron to find, which play back recordings of her voice through the mouths of whimsical cartoons that explode into pixels when opened.

Katie Song The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that Yvonne Orji will host the 49th International Emmy Awards, which takes place in person Nov.

th birthday nears, Larson worries that his moment to break through has passed, or at least it’s lagging too far behind those of the playwrights that he looks up to for inspiration. When he lands a low-budget workshop for his long-gestating Orwellian musical “Superbia,” Larson anticipates the success that will come tumbling effortlessly after it, fulfilling his artistic goals.

A father who told cops he was returning from a family Christmas trip has been found guilty of stashing £2 million of heroin in his campervan.

thurible during the ceremony. The decision to open with part of one entry in what becomes an anthology or series of vignettes created entirely by six victims of Catholic sexual abuse creates inauspicious expectations for Greene’s ability to capture the therapeutic powers of these short films, much less the artistic legitimacy of their efforts.

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Hallmark Christmas movie, a film that works best if you’re paying only half-attention to it while folding laundry or paying the bills.“Red Notice” opens in select theaters Nov. 5 and premieres on Netflix Nov. 12.

France and captured by Germany in August 1944. The P-38 Lightning was the U.S.-made fighter plane Moser was piloting when he went down.But don’t worry — you don’t need to know technical jargon or even care about aircraft to love Tom Clavin’s “Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival.” Though, if you are interested in the specs, rest assured Clavin scratches that itch.“Lightning Down” is a historical biography that contains the information of a textbook while reading like a novel.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorTo the uninitiated, Princess Diana biopic “Spencer” might appear like the quintessential British film, albeit with a Chilean director and an American star. But it is, in fact, German, Simone Baumann, managing director of German Films, says.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThe Writers Guild of America has told members not to work for Germany’s Constantin Film, which the union maintains is not a signatory to the 2020 Minimum Basic Agreement.The WGA instructed members in a message sent Friday afternoon that it is invoking its Working Rule 8 to bar members from working for Constantin Film Development.

The WGA has told its members not to work for Constantin Film Development, the powerhouse German production company behind such films as the Resident Evil franchise, Downfall and The Baader Meinhof Complex.

“Army of Thieves” has major “him?!” energy, and that’s part of the charm, for a little while at least. Of all the bad-asses and gritty heroes introduced in Zack Snyder’s Netflix zombie epic “Army of the Dead,” played by the likes of Dave Bautista, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Ella Purnell, the last character you’d expect to get a prequel-spin-off was the harmless German safecracker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer), him with his high-pitched squeals whenever zombies were near.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIf Hans Landa and Danny Ocean had a son, he might have turned out something like Sebastian (Matthias Schweighöfer), the talky, insanely gifted, but insecure hero of “Army of Thieves.” A Berlin office teller who hides his mojo behind an earnestly chirpy German accent, he’s an obsessive amateur safecracker — not a crook but a kind of savant hobbyist who dreams of unlocking metal fortress vaults the way a young theater bug in the Midwest might fantasize about