‘The Kid Detective’ Review: This Smart, Handsomely Noir-esque Whodunit Is No Child’s Play

Kat Dennings is sharing why it was so important for her to defend 18-year-old musician Billie Eilish against internet trolls who body-shamed her. Eilish faced the wrath of trolls after photos were published of her out and about in Los Angeles, California, in October.

It’s been four years since filmmaker Ti West has released a film, with 2016’s “In a Valley of Violence,” being his last feature.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn an out-of-the-box move, the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest movie market, looks set for a game changing seven city on-site roll-out to run from Nov. 30 to Dec.

Rose Leslie addressed her pregnancy for the first time since debuting her baby bump last month.“I am thrilled to be expecting, and I can’t wait to meet the new member of our family!” the actress, 33, told The New York Post on Wednesday, October 21.The Game of Thrones alum gave a glimpse of her budding belly in September while posing for U.K.’s Make Magazine.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorThe specialty box office was fairly quiet this weekend with The Kid Detective being the new theatrical release posting numbers.

A movie that keeps revealing itself to be a little bit odder, a little bit better than you thought it was two minutes ago, Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective is either a lucky accident or a balancing act more graceful than a first-time writer/director should expect to pull off. The tale of a 32 year-old failure (Adam Brody) who was once his town's most celebrated child, it spends much of its time looking, with some humor but little mockery, at how it feels to fail to live up to one's potential.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThere is a very good mix of theatrical, digital, VOD and hybrid releases this weekend starting with The Kid Detective from Stage 6 Films starring Adam Brody and Sophie Nélisse.Written and directed by Evan Morgan, the movie is about exactly what the title suggests: a kid detective. Brody plays a once-celebrated kid detective who is now 31 and isn’t exactly bathing in fame.

Todd McCarthy There are certain films that you just know are Canadian after five minutes — they’re milder, softer, more congenial and eager to please than their south-of-the-border counterparts would be — and that’s what makes The Kid Detective, despite its twisty ending, such a mild piece of cheese.The film premiered — where else? — at this year’s shaved-down Toronto Film Festival.To its credit, Evan Morgan’s feature directorial debut isn’t exactly what its title makes you imagine it might be,

Adam Brody as the womp-womp wunderkind, is mystifyingly dreary and colorless. Laughter and enjoyment is stifled by the constant question of whether we’re allowed to laugh or enjoy anything at all.The titular detective, Abe (Brody), has a private office now that he’s around 40, and the design aesthetic is “The Big Sleep” without any clients.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- King Harald V of Norway was discharged from the main hospital in Oslo on Monday after a successful operation to replace a heart valve.“The king is in good shape,” the monarch's doctor, Bjoern Bendz, said after the surgery at the Rikshospitalet’s Cardiovascular and Lung Clinic.The palace earlier had said that the intervention was necessary to improve the 83-year-old king’s breathing. Last month, the king was hospitalized with breathing difficulties.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Norway’s 83-year-old King Harald V on Friday underwent an operation to replace a heart valve at the main hospital in Oslo.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Norway’s 83-year-old King Harald V was admitted to the main hospital in Oslo Thursday to undergo an operation to replace a heart valve, the palace said.“This intervention is necessary to improve the king’s breathing. This type of operation is performed several hundred times a year at Rikshospitalet,” the monarch's doctor, Bjoern Bendz, said in a palace statement.The king was hospitalized last month with breathing difficulties.

Morten Steingrimsen Guest ContributorIn recent years, Norway has become the backdrop to major studio films like “Black Widow,” “Dune,” “Tenet” and James Bond film “No Time to Die.” The latest tentpole in town was Paramount Pictures’ “Mission: Impossible 7,” one of the first studio films to resume shooting after seven months on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.For the last six weeks, director Christopher McQuarrie, star Tom Cruise and the rest of the “Mission: Impossible 7” team have been

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