‘The Grab’ Review: Exposing a Nearly Invisible Conspiracy to Control the World’s Food and Water

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “A lot of this really happened,” teases the opening card of David O. Russell’s unruly ensemble comedy “Amsterdam,” a loony early-’30s social satire that goes cartwheeling through a little-remembered episode in American history when fascists tried to overthrow the U.S. government. Russell clearly sees parallels between this alarming chapter of the nation’s past and our present, as national divisions threaten to overwhelm American democracy, but the writer-director has complicated the plot — the movie’s plot, that is, not the greater conspiracy on which it turns — to such a degree that audiences are bound to be bewildered. Instead of wondering which parts are true and which ones invented, they’re likely to find themselves asking, “What the hell is happening?” for the better part of 134 minutes.

Emmerdale fans have shared a plea with show bosses to make a change to a current storyline. There were more emotional scenes as the ITV soap returned to screens on Monday night (September 26).

Faith Hill has been celebrated by her family this week as she rang in her birthday and one of the photos shared by her daughter, Gracie McGraw, is sure to turn heads. The 1883 actress looked so different in a throwback photo posted on Instagram stories, in which she was enjoying an at-home pamper session.MORE: Faith Hill looks so different with super short hair as husband Tim McGraw reacts Faith rocked foils in her hair as she appeared to be treating herself to some highlights, and her daughter wore matching ones in her pigtails. WATCH: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's love story The singer looked fresh-faced and makeup-free in the snapshot from inside their family home as Gracie sucked on a pacifier and looked adorable. The snapshot was just one of many posted by Faith's family including her other two daughters, Audrey and Maggie. SEE: Faith Hill's daughter Audrey shares peek inside palatial NYC homeMORE: Audrey and Gracie McGraw share sadness following heartbreaking lossHer husband, Tim McGraw, also paid tribute and was one of the first to make sure his wife felt special on her big day, sharing a montage of photos of them together throughout the years, alongside a heartfelt caption. Gracie shared the photo with her mom on her birthday It read: " Happy birthday!!!!! My best friend.

Addison Rae holds a stack of takeout containers up to hide her face while leaving Erewhon Market in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon (September 23).

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic African American boxing champ Muhammad Ali famously refused to fight for his country, justifying himself with the oft-quoted quip, “No Viet Cong ever called me n—–.” That’s one-half of American history, and an important one. “Devotion” tells the other, presenting the story of a Black pilot so determined to defend — and die for, if need be — the United States that he was willing to endure institutional bigotry to become the Jackie Robinson of the skies: Jesse Brown, the first aviator of color to complete the Navy’s basic training program. A square but satisfying social justice drama set against the backdrop of the Korean War, “Devotion” impressed on the biggest screen possible at the Toronto Film Festival two months before its Nov. 23 theatrical release. Featuring elements of both “Green Book” and “Red Tails,” the film is more than just a stirring case of Black exceptionalism; it also celebrates the one white officer who had Brown’s back, Tom Hudner, treating the bond these two men formed as something exceptional unto itself. Director JD Dillard dazzles with see-it-in-Imax airborne sequences, but the meat of the film focuses on the friendship between Brown (“Da 5 Bloods” star Jonathan Majors) and his white wingman, played by Glen Powell, the “Hidden Figures” actor who most recently appeared in “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are doting parents to three grown-up children and they are incredibly close.MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter Gracie relaxes in lush new photo after big moveThe celebrity couple became empty nesters last year when their youngest daughter Audrey left home, and another 'first' occurred this week - which was bittersweet.VIDEO: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw share story about meeting daughter's boyfriendFaith celebrated her 55th birthday, the first without her daughters at home. While it was no doubt strange without their children, she was inundated with birthday tributes on her big day.Tim was one of the first to make sure his wife felt special on her big day, sharing a montage of photos of them together throughout the years, alongside a heartfelt caption.MORE: Faith Hill's daughter Audrey shares peek inside palatial NYC homeIt read: " Happy birthday!!!!! My best friend.

Emmerdale fans couldn't be more on the same page when it comes to Faith Dingle. Viewers of the ITV soap have been left devastated as they watch the much-loved character start to deteriorate following her terminal cancer diagnosis.

There's a high chance that if you've been scrolling through your For You page on TikTok recently you will have seen one of Madeline Argy's videos. Hailed as a British Emma Chamberlain, the TikTok star has quickly risen to fame thanks to her brutally honest life stories and conversational anecdotes.That being said, more recently her love life is getting tongues wagging just as much as her iconic content; speculation is through the roof that Madeline is dating rapper Central Cee and social media isn't dropping it.Madeline was born in 2000 and is 21 years old.According to her PR agency Madeline lives in Sussex/London.

There’s a bizarre new story about Ezra Miller and Susan Sarandon that was included as part of a new exposé published by Vanity Fair.

A new exposé is laying bare the accusations that have been made against “The Flash” star Ezra Miller.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the DC Extended Universe, it’s not the villains who have identity issues, but the heroes. Bruce Wayne watched his parents get murdered, adopted a teenage sidekick and now spends his nights cosplaying as the creature everyone associates with vampires. Kal-El also saw his parents die and goes through life trying to pass as the earthling Clark Kent, wearing spandex under his work clothes, just in case. These are not the traits of well-adjusted normies, and as such, there’s enormous subversive appeal in seeing trans artist Vera Drew turn such iconic characters inside-out in the illicitly made marvel that is “The People’s Joker.” Coming from a place of deep fan love and equally profound institutional mistrust, Drew’s anarchic feature-length parody impishly treads the line of fair use, so much so that the helmer pulled the film from the Toronto Film Festival after its raucous Midnight Madness premiere, citing “rights issues.” But what did she expect? The irreverent underground project reimagines the Joker’s origin story as a queer coming-of-age/coming-to-terms narrative, using a mishmash of styles: mostly crude live-action of the kind you expect from public-access programming (shot against greenscreens, then composited with rudimentary CG sets), embellished with various forms of homemade animation.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic No director has done more to deconstruct the myth of the suburban American family than Steven Spielberg. Dissertations have been written and documentaries made on the subject. And now, at the spry young age of 75, Spielberg himself weighs in on where his preoccupations come from in “The Fabelmans,” a personal account of his upbringing that feels like listening to two and a half hours’ worth of well-polished cocktail-party anecdotes, only better, since he’s gone to the trouble of staging them all for our benefit. Spielberg’s a born storyteller, and these are arguably his most precious stories. From the first movie he saw (“The Greatest Show on Earth”) to memories of meeting filmmaker John Ford on the Paramount lot, this endearing, broadly appealing account of how Spielberg was smitten by the medium — and why the prodigy nearly abandoned picture-making before his career even started — holds the keys to so much of the master’s filmography. More similar to Woody Allen’s autobiographical “Radio Days” than it is to European art films such as “The 400 Blows” and “Amistad” (the more highbrow models other directors typically point to when re-creating their childhoods), “The Fabelmans” invites audiences into the home and headspace of the world’s most beloved living director, an oddly sanitized zone where even the trauma — which includes anti-Semitism, financial disadvantage and divorce — seems to go better with fresh-buttered popcorn.

In rural Kenya, $22 a month can go a long, long way. We’re talking a life-changing sum of money.

Viola Davis stuns in a bright pink dress at the premiere of her new movie, The Woman King, during the 2022 Toronto Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on Friday (September 9) in Toronto, Canada.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “If we got rid of every gay man in the military, there would be no military,” a sympathetic officer tells Marine recruit Ellis French in “The Inspection.” That’s an exceptionally open-minded take on the United States’ “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, seeing as how pretty much everyone else French encounters at boot camp is openly hostile to there being a gay man among them. But writer-director Elegance Bratton made it through the system — like the character, he’d been lost and homeless for a decade before enlisting — and this deeply personal narrative debut is one gay Black man’s way of showing how he not only survived the experience, but was strengthened by it. “The few, the proud,” as they say.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In early 2021, while Americans were focused on the transfer of power back home, daredevil director Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land,” “City of Ghosts”) assembled a crew and flew to Afghanistan to check in on the status of America’s longest war. At that point, Osama bin Laden had been dead a decade, the Taliban was weakened but not defeated, and the U.S.-trained Afghan Army was holding its own fairly well — and yet, nearly 20 years in, there was still no end in sight for American involvement. That changed almost as soon as Heineman arrived, as the Biden administration made plans to pull out. In that moment, what might have been another business-as-usual desert war doc — with routine patrols, precisely targeted drone strikes and soldiers expressing their ennui — shifted to something audiences hadn’t seen before. The title, “Retrograde,” refers to the process by which military forces extricate themselves from conflict, removing or otherwise rendering useless the equipment they’d used to engage the enemy. For Heineman, that meant capturing all kinds of cinematic sights: A brawny soldier smashes a heap of computer monitors, helicopters airlift vehicles out, and things go boom as a team tosses all remaining ammo into a trench, douses it in gasoline and lights the pile with a well-aimed rocket. The Taliban won’t be using these bullets.

A global takeover is much easier when people can understand what you're talking about. Central Cee is the West London rapper with a viral hit in "Doja," a Song You Need when it dropped back in July, and naturally, his raps rely a lot on slang from his homeland of the United Kingdom.

DreamWorks Animation has announced the cast, set the premiere date and unveiled the trailer for Abominable and The Invisible City, the 10-episode series inspired by the 2019 film Abominable. Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) joins Abominable alums Chloe Bennet (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Tenzing Trainor (Liv and Maddie) and Michelle Wong. All 10 episodes of Abominable and The Invisible City will premiere on Peacock and Hulu on October 5.