Proving every bit as charmless and frenetic as its 2018 CG-animated predecessor, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway once again goes about chaotically tossing bunny droppings over the perfectly fertile ground that is the Beatrix Potter source material.
05.03.2021 - 01:39 / thewrap.com
This review of “La Llorona” was first published following its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. For his third and most tonally adventurous feature to date, socially perceptive writer-director Jayro Bustamante repurposes one of Latin America’s most ubiquitous supernatural legends to fiercely examine genocide against indigenous people in his native Guatemala.
Proving every bit as charmless and frenetic as its 2018 CG-animated predecessor, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway once again goes about chaotically tossing bunny droppings over the perfectly fertile ground that is the Beatrix Potter source material.
“America has demonstrated its greatness time and time and time again,” proclaims ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson from a stage early in the new documentary Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, “and America is one of the most racist countries on the face of this earth.” When he continues, “those two things are not mutually exclusive,” the audience erupts in applause.
In the fall of 2015, a 16-year-old girl named Shakara was removed from her math class by school officer Ben Fields with such force that footage of the incident went viral. “Are you gonna come with me, or am I gonna make you?” asks Fields in a video, before flipping over Shakara’s desk with her in it, landing the teenager on her back with the desk overturned above her.
Surprise player Bob Odenkirk enters the middle-aged action hero game in Nobody, Ilya Naishuller's John Wick-y take on the protect-my-family picture. Taking itself much less seriously than the Taken series and its predecessors, it's a wish-fulfillment romp just as ludicrous as any of them but more fun than most.
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Prince William pushed back on some of the comments Prince Harry made about him during the explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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Dua Lipa just proved why she's one of the most-nominated artists at the 2021 GRAMMYs!The singer took the stage on Sunday, at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, to perform her hits, «Levitating,» with rapper and fellow nominee DaBaby, and «Don't Start Now.»The pop star's high-energy performance included three dazzling looks and an epic dance number that's sure to make her fans miss the dance floor! Before hitting the stage, Lipa told ET that performing at the star-studded awards show was a «dream
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHorror was the perfect genre for filmmaker Jayro Bustamante and his crew to tell the story of Guatemala’s history of genocide and violence against women in “La Llorona,” shortlisted for an Oscar in the international film category.Cinematographer Nicolás Wong Díaz and costume designer Sofía Lantán helped Bustamante use a Latino folkloric “wailing woman” tale in service to a socio-political theme about the ghosts haunting Gen.
stars Conner Trott and Mackenzie Dipman have called it quits.The pair released a joint statement on Saturday to share the news with fans who «have been wondering about us and our relationship,» according to the statement posted to both Trott and Dipman's Instagram stories.«We are both young and in the early stages of careers, and sadly those careers are keeping us in two different places.
Regé Jean Page is definitely capitalising on his Bridgerton success.
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Most cop movies — and most movies in general — spend the first reel setting up a story that usually kicks off after an “inciting incident,” to quote various screenwriting manuals, which takes place within the first ten or 15 minutes. For the rest of the film, we then watch how that incident unravels and affects the lives of all those involved.