Thania Garcia Drake and 21 Savage delivered a jam-packed setlist for the opening night of the “It’s All A Blur” tour that launched at Chicago’s United Center on July 5. The show marked Drake’s first concert stretch across North America since the “Aubrey & the Three Migos” tour hit over 40 arenas in 2018. Drake opened the concert sitting on a couch where he recited “Look What You’ve Done,” a cut from his 2011 album “Take Care,” while reading the lines off of a composition notebook. A younger version of Drake (there’s online debate regarding whether or not the boy is a hologram or if he’s real… it appears to be an actor whose face they’ve digitally altered on the venue’s jumbo screens) regularly appeared beside him for songs released earlier in his discography.
In ‘Citizen Saint,’ Georgian Director Tinatin Kajrishvili Asks What If God Was One of Us
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Marta Balaga Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition section is about to witness a miracle thanks to Tinatin Kajrishvili’s third feature “Citizen Saint,” about small-town miners suddenly discovering that their protector has literally come down from the cross and into their lives. Kajrishvili, already known to festival audiences thanks to Berlinale titles “Brides” and “Horizon,” wasn’t trying to make a religious film, she states. She was more interested in the power of hope and the lengths most people will go in order to preserve it.“Georgians are very religious and one day, a guy appeared in my neighborhood, calling himself ‘Saint Nicolas.’ His followers found him an apartment, and they would just stand in front of his house, praying. Whenever he would open a window, or throw a tomato at them, they would just pick it up and consider it as a blessing,” recounts the director, who co-wrote the script with Basa Janikashvili.
“After one year, he became ‘King Nariman.’ Now, he even has a Facebook page where his followers talk about his ‘miracles’. I can’t call it a direct inspiration but that’s when I understood that people really do need this kind of hope in their lives, even though the way they go about it can sometimes be viewed as naïve. Also, I don’t think we have changed that much over time – we are just as cruel as we were 2,000 years ago. If Christ was to return today, we would just hurt him all over again.”With the help of her DP Krum Rodriguez, whom she calls “the hero of the film” for shooting underground in complete darkness, Kajrishvili decided to show real mines of Georgia’s Chiatura in the film. The location has also attracted the likes of Vincent Cassel, who visited the town while shooting “Partisan”
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Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney sets out European management aim
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Ewan McGregor Pays Tribute To Daughter Clara As He Accepts Karlovy Vary President’s Award: “The Highlight Of What I’ve Done Is To Act With My Daughter”
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Deon Cole on ‘Average Joe’: ‘Humor, drama, gore, gangster s–t all in one’
BET+ series.“I’m going to be real with you,” said Cole, 51, told The Post. “I wrote a movie from my point-of-view and it had comedy and also dramatic moments.
Amber Heard asks not to have “stones thrown” at her by the media
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Harrison Ford didn’t know Tom Selleck was cast as Indiana Jones first
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‘Liaison’ Maker Ringside Hires ‘Industry’ Exec; LaLiga Studios Doc; Cameron Roach Indie Staffs Up — Global Briefs
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Dad of 12 Nick Cannon: My twins with Mariah Carey asked ‘What about me?’
he’d fathered 10 other children. Learning of their dad’s bustling brood of 12 came as a shock to his eldest kids, daughter Monroe and son Moroccan Cannon, 12, according to the “Wild ‘N Out” front man, who said the duo immediately questioned where they ranked in his life and heart. “They were like, ‘Oh! Well, what about me?’ ” Cannon, 42, revealed to Dr. Laura Berman on her podcast, “The Language of Love,” of the preteens’ response to his insemination spree across six baby mamas. The ever-fruitful comedian welcomed his twelfth bundle of joy, Halo Marie, with model Alyssa Scott, 29, on December 14, 2022. And while Cannon says his tweens with Carey, 54, were mildly excited about becoming a big brother and big sister to their swarm of siblings — claiming they’d let out a half-hearted “yay” upon being updated about his tribe — he admitted that the duo was more concerned about their value to him. “[Monroe] was like, ‘You love me the most, right?,’” said the “Masker Singer” host. “I was like, ‘Alright, let’s have that conversation,’” Cannon continued.
Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney explains his shift in opinion on MLS All-Stars game
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Adele Insisted on Keeping a Rocky Balboa Statue When She Bought Sylvester Stallone’s House
interview with the “Wall Street Journal” released Monday. The sale did indeed go through last year, per the L.A. Times, and she’s presumably staring into the Italian Stallion’s bronze eyes at this very moment.“I like what she’s doing,” Stallone added of the singer’s renovations to his former home.
Oliver Stone Calls ‘John Wick 4’ “Disgusting Beyond Belief” & Compares It To A Video Game
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What is Kawasaki disease as Mrs Hinch shares son's heartbreaking diagnosis
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