‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ Review: Retro ’80s Action Homage Uses Sexual impotence as Social Critique

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Candyman,” the 1992 slasher movie starring Tony Todd as a vengeful specter in a floor-length fur-lined coat, with a hook for a left hand and a devoted swarm of killer bees, was an urban-legend horror film that was ahead of its time but also, just maybe, a little too much of its time. Todd’s scowling ripper started off as an enslaved person’s son, Daniel Robitaille, who in the late 1800s was a successful artist.

the 44-year-old’s upcoming album “Donda” will admit up to 38,000 fans — slashed down from 63,000 people.Chicago Park District spokeswoman Michele Lemons said in a statement that the reduced capacity is a show of how seriously the city takes the pandemic.“Kanye West’s performance is one of many examples that show that Chicago can be open and safe at the same time,” Lemons said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMimi Plauché, the artistic director of the Chicago International Film Festival, has been named Knight of the Order of Arts and Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin. Plauché will receive the honorary distinction, one of the four ministerial orders of the French Republic, at a gala event held on Sept.

Ashley Tisdale is celebrating Austin Butler‘s 30th birthday!

Austin Butler!The actor turned 30 on Tuesday, and in honor of his special day, plenty of his celebrity friends took to social media to send well wishes. Butler's longtime pal, Ashley Tisdale, was one of the first to pay tribute, sharing a series of pics from their years-long friendship.«Wow @austinbutler I can’t believe your 30!!! Welcome to the club buddy!» she raved on Instagram.

Latest DIY project! Joy-Anna Duggar is flexing her renovation skills as she and her husband, Austin Forsyth, started to fix up an RV.

Wait, what team? Ashley Tisdale threw fans for a loop with her lengthy, heartfelt celebration of Vanessa Hudgens‘ ex-boyfriend Austin Butler on his 30th birthday.

Wow [Austin Butler], I can’t believe your(sic) 30!!! Welcome to the club, buddy!” Ashley Tisdale wrote on Aug. 17, the day that the Shannara Chronicles star left his twenties behind. Along with her message, Ashley, 36, posted photos of her and Austin throughout the years. “You’ve been my best friend since you were 15, so that’s 15 years strong of friendship!” she added. “I am beyond proud of you and everything you’re accomplishing but most importantly proud of the person you are.”

Jessica Kiang Given that, after its shuttered 2020 edition, the 74th Locarno Film Festival’s ident features a prowling, growling, resurgent leopard and the distinctly tumescent tagline “Cinema is Back” it’s somewhat ironic that the festival’s top prize should go to a film about erectile dysfunction.In other ways, however, Indonesian director Edwin’s fabulously if nonsensically titled “Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash” is perhaps the ideal Golden Leopard winner, in what is a strange year

Edwin, a festival darling whose films have been the trump card for Berlinale and Rotterdam, returns to the circuit with a new gem. “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash,” which just had its world premiere in Locarno’s International Competition, is a genre-bending portrayal of an angry impotent young man stuck in the middle of the macho Indonesian Eighties.As happened with many productions last year, the pandemic affected the film, which had to stop the shooting due to the lockdown.

Peter A. Lees, a film producer whose credits include the recent live-action versions of The Little Mermaid, Anastasia and The Mad Hatter, has died. He was 51.

Summer love! Lily-Rose Depp and Austin Butler packed on the PDA during a night out in London, leading fans to wonder if a new romance is brewing.

Lily-Rose Depp and Austin Butler are a couple! Lily-Rose, 22, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, was spotted packing on the PDA with the actor, 29, in London over the weekend. The couple stepped out for dinner and enjoyed an evening stroll after, where they embraced and kissed along the sidewalk as they waited for a taxi, as seen in photos HERE.

Lily-Rose Depp and Austin Butler are seemingly a new couple based on the new photos that just surfaced!