WATCH: Cameron Merchant surprises Jules Robinson on her birthdayBefore appearing on Married At First Sight in 2017, where he was matched with Jules and fell in love, Cam was a professional cricketer in Canada.But after retiring from the sport in 2014, he found himself without a purpose and struggled to find the drive to even wake up in the morning.“I couldn't put pants on, and I was mentally and physically crippled,” he revealed on Gus Worland's Not An Overnight Success podcast.Things got so bad that he wound up without a home, at one time sleeping alone at Vancouver Airport for four days.He eventually returned to Sydney and crashed on a friend’s couch before seeking help at the Currumbin Clinic in Palm Beach.Cam is now living his happiest life as Jules' husband and Ollie's dad.“I remember sitting in a hospital bed, in mental rehab, and I remember thinking the only thing that was going to keep me going was that I hadn't been married yet, and I hadn't had kids,” Cam confessed.It was the thought of one day settling down and starting a family with a woman he loved that kept him going.In a way, Cam owes that moment to wife Jules and son Ollie, who helped him realise those dreams years later.
‘Burning Days’ Review: A Sweltering, Stylish Small-Town Allegory for Corruption in Strongman Societies
29.06.2022 - 12:09 / variety.com
Jessica Kiang Compassion is in almost as short supply as water in Emin Alper’s sardonic, seething Un Certain Regard breakout “Burning Days,” a parched little parable about small-town corruption in chokingly patriarchal rural Turkey. Beginning and ending on the lip of a massive sinkhole on the village outskirts, and featuring a manhunt that echoes a wild boar hunt and a mirage-like lake whose waters may or may not be toxic, here, the cool filmmaking is subtler than the metaphors.
But then, with mass detentions during the recent Turkish Pride celebrations still in the headlines, when it comes to homophobia, misogyny, masculine crisis and the other attendant cruelties of this strongman-led society, these are not subtle times. A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters” (which makes it also more accessible than the overtly Chekhovian theatricality of Turkey’s other Cannes darling, Nuri Bilge Ceylan), “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from DP Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography.
In an emblematically sweeping shot, under the sinister insinuations of Stefan Will’s excellent score, we’re introduced to Emre (Selahattin Paşali), the ambitious young prosecutor newly posted to this drought-ridden backwater, as he gazes into the extinction-level crater outside town, alongside local judge Zeynep (Seli̇n Yeninci).Whether the sinkhole was preventable — and whether the groundwater drilling that may have caused it can continue — is one of the cases Emre’s office will be investigating. This will likely put him at loggerheads with the local bigwig whose mayoral re-election campaign is founded on promises of solving the
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Oscars for its handling of the death of actor Sidney Poitier, saying that he should have had “a whole section”.At the ceremony in March the late actor was commemorated with a 40 second tribute at the beginning of the In Memoriam section. His work was also celebrated alongside Ivan Reitman and Betty White during an additional song-led section.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the memoriam tribute, Jackson said: “I’m still a little ticked that the greatest actor we had in Hollywood died and they gave him, what, 10 fucking seconds. No.
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