Chris Rock called Licorice Pizza “probably the best movie I saw this year,” introducing his friend the director Paul Thomas Anderson at the National Board of Review gala. “I only saw about four movies.”
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“The Night Shift” by Alex Finlay (Minotaur)New Year’s Eve, 1999. Four teenage girls working late at a video store in Linden, New Jersey, are savagely attacked.
Only one, Ella Monroe, survives, and she is still haunted by what the killer whispered as he stabbed her.“Goodnight, pretty girl.”Thanks to an anonymous tip, police discover the murder weapon in the locker of a high school student named Vince Whitaker. But before he can be brought to justice, he vanishes.Fifteen years later, four teenagers working late at a Linden ice cream shop are attacked, and once again, only one, Jessica Duval, survives.
She, too, heard him whisper as he stabbed her.“Goodnight, pretty girl.”So begins “The Night Shift,” the second novel attributed to Alex Finlay, the pen name of a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who has written other thrillers under his real name.Did Whitaker return to Linden to strike again?Could this new act of brutality be the work of a copycat?A Linden police officer and an FBI agent investigate, studying every scrap of evidence about the new case and unearthing long-held secrets about the first, looking for connections.But they aren’t the only ones. Convinced that Whitaker is innocent, his younger brother, now a public defender, launches a personal search for the truth.
Surprisingly, so does the recent survivor, Jessica, who, authorities discover, has long been obsessed with the first case.Meanwhile, a local school official who knew both survivors well convinces the first, Ella, now working as a therapist, to counsel Jessica, causing more complications.The result is a suspenseful tale of vengeance, brotherly love, teenage romance, and the perils of jumping to conclusions. Finlay spins it at a rapid pace, his characters
.Chris Rock called Licorice Pizza “probably the best movie I saw this year,” introducing his friend the director Paul Thomas Anderson at the National Board of Review gala. “I only saw about four movies.”
Rihanna will be welcoming her baby in a few months, and she already knows the type of mother she will be. The singer, actress, businesswoman, and beauty mogul revealed she had entered her third trimester of pregnancy and if she is going to be a by-the-book or go-with-the-flow mom.The Fenty Beauty founder told Elle magazine her parenting style would be similar to Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Giudice. “Teresa from Jersey does not play about her kids.
Model moms! Pregnant Rihanna plans to emulate a pair of Real Housewives cast members while raising her first baby.
EXCLUSIVE: The Queen’s Gambit creator Allan Scott has set his next project, the crossover drama from Millionaire Matchmaker star Patti Stanger and Kissing Booth producer Andrew Cole-Bulgin.
Rihanna is known for someone who doesn’t tolerate clowns, fools, and haters, and that’s not going to change when she gives birth to her baby. “I feel like that’s the type of mom I’m going to be,” RiRi, 34, says in a new interview with ELLE.com. “Psycho about it.” The singer spoke with the publication about the launch of Fenty Beauty across Ulta Beauty’s network of stores, and during the conversation, she let it be known that her and A$AP Rock‘s child will arrive here sooner than later.
Anna Sorokin, the convicted swindler whose criminal adventures formed the basis of the hit Netflix 2022 series Inventing Anna, will soon be deported to Germany – if she hasn’t already been sent packing.
Joe Leydon Film CriticBradley Jackson’s “Facing Ryan” tells the story of an agreeable fellow from small-town Texas who married his high school sweetheart, followed his dream of playing major league baseball, pitched for four MLB teams over a 27-year career while operating a cattle ranch during off-season, set records for no-hitters and strikeouts that remain unbroken to this day, held high-profile executive positions with two of his former teams more than a decade after his retirement from the game, and currently resides on the ranch where he and his wife, the loving and supportive life partner he wed back in 1967, are frequently surrounded by their children and grandchildren.If you were to present this scenario at a pitch meeting, you’d likely be shot down for failing to hype your narrative with suspenseful setbacks, intense conflict and a slew of obstacles for your protagonist to overcome. And if you somehow managed to get your film made anyway, critics would almost surely complain about the many and varied ways credibility was stretched to the breaking point while the hero accomplished one extraordinary feat after another.
Honestly, it felt to us like a lot of people were talking about this show… but maybe they just weren’t tuning in to actually watch it?!
Radio 1 DJ Mark Page has been found guilty of trying to arrange the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines.Page was the host of the early weekend Breakfast Show on Radio One between 1983 and 1986, and also worked as the announcer at Middlesbrough FC stadium until he was arrested in 2020 on suspicion of attempting to incite or cause a girl to engage in sexual activity and arranging or facilitating sexual exploitation in the PhilippinesPage denied the allegations but earlier this week, he was found guilty of four charges of arranging the commission of a child sex offence, including two counts of abuse by using a webcam linking his home to the Philippines in 2016, but cleared of one.He was sentenced to twelve years in jail earlier today (March 10).A former Radio 1 DJ has been jailed for 12 years for arranging the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines https://t.co/9rZZl5TRaP— BBC North East and Cumbria (@BBCNEandCumbria) March 10, 2022According to the BBC, Page had his phone, tablet and a computer seized after Facebook monitors raised concerns. During the trial he claimed his devices had been hacked but said he hadn’t mentioned that during interviews with the police, where he gave “no comment” answers, because he was in shock.The Teeside Crown Court heard how Page used charity and business as a cover to meet children as young as 12 between 2016 and 2019.
Residents of Balbeggie are attempting to put pressure on the local authority to lower speed limits in and around the village as concern grows drivers are routinely ignoring those already in place.
The Manchester Evening News made a Coronation Street cameo in Sunday night's hour-long episode as Laura Neelan read our article about the soap.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Kimberly Akimbo,” one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season will transfer to Broadway this fall following an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theatre Company. The musical about a New Jersey girl who has an aging disease that makes her appear to be decades older than her teenage years will begin previews on October 12 and officially open on November 10.
Elliot Page is speaking out.
“Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free," by Sarah Weinman (Ecco)In 1957, a 15-year-old girl named Victoria Zielinski never returned home after visiting a friend. Her body was found the next day in a sand pit in Ramsey, New Jersey.The police quickly made an arrest in what seemed like an open-and-shut case: Edgar Smith, who knew Vickie, admitted to giving her a ride that night in a car the police found to be stained with blood.
Universal has unveiled a first-look photo from Christopher Nolan’s anticipated thriller Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, also announcing that Kenneth Branagh has joined the cast, with production now underway.
The large ensemble cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming revival of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Skin of Our Teeth will include Priscilla Lopez (In The Heights, A Chorus Line), James Vincent Meredith (The Book of Mormon) and Gabby Beans (Succession).
One part psychological thriller, one part murder-mystery, and one part Lifetime movie, the BBC’s latest David Oyelowo-led series, “The Girl Before” is streaming on BBC One and HBO Max now. Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, the series (created, written, and executive produced by author JP Delaney) follows two women’s stories three years apart as they move into the same minimalist dream home, created by eccentric architect Edward (Oyelowo).
One part psychological thriller, one part murder-mystery, and one part Lifetime movie, the BBC’s latest David Oyelowo-led series, “The Girl Before” is streaming on BBC One and HBO Max now. Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, the series (created, written, and executive produced by author JP Delaney) follows two women’s stories three years apart as they move into the same minimalist dream home, created by eccentric architect Edward (Oyelowo).