‘Vendetta’ Review: Bloody Payback of the Most Dull and Derivative Kind

Kelly Reichardt has been making minimal Americana since the early 1990s, mostly around the state of Oregon where she lives and mostly about her favored awkward squad: quiet square pegs who don’t quite fit the round holes society provides. In this ongoing quest she has found many collaborators, but none more attuned to her recessive brand of naturalism than Michelle Williams.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticLizzy Carr (Michelle Williams), the central character of Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” is a sculptor who is finishing up a series of ceramic figures she’ll be presenting in a gallery show. We see her working, throughout the movie, on the small clay statues — all women, each one about a foot tall, some mounted on rods, all with an intentionally rough, patchy surface that may look awkward and unpolished if you’re close up to it, but when you stand back a bit you see the aesthetic elegance of her style. (Giacometti would understand.) She’s making sculptures of female characters who look a bit ghostly in their lack of perfect line, but that’s part of their design (they all appear a little tormented), and that quality is balanced by the delicate surprise colors they’re painted with, which express their inner life.

EXCLUSIVE: MVD Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide rights to the autobiographical coming-of-age comedy 5-25-77, from writer-director Patrick Read Johnson (Spaced Invaders), slating it for release in North American theaters this fall, with an unveiling on digital and VOD to follow.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticMost filmmakers who want to unsettle you in a horror movie will reach for a familiar set of tools: slashers, demons, shock cuts, soundtracks that go boom! in the night. But in “Crimes of the Future,” the writer-director David Cronenberg is out to provoke and disturb us with something far more traumatic than mere monsters.Am I talking about the fact that in the distant future where the film is set, human beings grow mysterious new organs in their bodies? Or that having those organs removed through surgery has become, for a creepy rebel aesthete named Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a species of performance art? Or that people no longer experience physical pain, and will therefore stand in the street late at night cutting each other for cheap thrills, as if they were shooting heroin in a back alley? Or that surgery itself, as someone puts it, has become “the new sex”? If you see “Crimes of the Future,” you’ll witness all of these outrages, and a few more besides.

Ryan Seacrest had a crazy wardrobe malfunction during the most recent episode of American Idol!

Jessica Kiang It is hard to watch the brutalization of women on screen, especially when you know it is a re-creation of an actual crime. But it is harder still — rightly, valuably so — if you’ve been made to notice the way this woman’s lipstick is smeared over her cracked lips, if you’ve seen the old bruises that mottle that woman’s body beneath her chador, or watched her carefully stash her flats in a crinkled plastic bag as she switches into heels in a dingy bathroom.

If you're looking for a night in with good food this weekend, then it may be worth swapping your usual takeaway for an Iceland shop.

Sophie and Harry are the most popular royal baby names amongst the wider public over the past quarter of a century, new research has revealed. Whilst Charlotte and James have also remained consistent favourites down the years the data reveals. Ahead of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, nursery retailer Kiddies Kingdom have analysed the names given to royal family members from the Queen's grandfather King George V onwards.They have then used figures from the Office of National Statistics to determine how many newborns have been given those names from 1996 to the last full year's recorded data in 2020, with an average ranking over the 25 year period putting them in order of popularity.

A judge has granted permission for a full judicial review into the inquest of Yousef Makki.

Dame Deborah James has vowed to embrace the British weather, even if it is pouring down.

Hugh Jackman is responding to the comments that Michelle Williams made this week about wanting to do a sequel to The Greatest Showman!

A filmed version of the critically lauded Off Broadway production Trevor: The Musical will debut exclusively on Disney+ Friday, June 24.

revenues fell from $858 million in 2019 to just $289 million last year.A SPAC merger taking the company public on Nasdaq last fall injected $145 million in cash, but the financials still suffered. Shares continued to slide from a November 2021 high near $18 to just over $2 in mid-April of this year.

These are the faces of Bolton's four most wanted people this week as police ask the public for help. Officers do not know where any of the four people currently are - but all four have links to Bolton.

MJ Williams believes Bolton Wanderers team mate is getting 'better and better' after watching his development from a young age at Rochdale.