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...With a knowing wink to multiple B-movies, a vintage twist awaits: a nasty surprise in the trunk....
...mighty production that fuses the sense of ritual so often central to the director’s work with a modern setting to create a shattering piece of theatre, led by a towering, beautifully shaped performance from Danny...
...The movie fills in the blanks with hints of Mad Max: Fury Road, the John Wick franchise and all manner of grindhouse B-movies, united in the gory Esperanto of flaming bedlam....
...thus, is Barbie, but only one among the sisterhood of Barbies, collectively taking charge of governance between trips to “beach”, where chiselled man-doll Ken (Ryan Gosling) pines for a) affirmation and b)...
...In the thick of this good-natured mishmash of a B-movie (directed by Peyton Reed), you might find yourself pondering it....
...Early on in the new movie, title holder Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan) also calls it quits. Hollywood wealthy, he is happy to age out. You may not be shocked that he doesn’t stay that way....
...How does a filmmaker respond to the ongoing gold rush around true crime while, a) pursuing a socially responsible agenda, and b) working for Disney?...
...deterrent to others hoping to arrive in the UK irregularly.https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1724465401982070914 Braverman accused Sunak of having “failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘plan B’...
...“Doing business is more difficult nowadays in mainland China, with a smaller market and stronger competition,” says Danny Lau of Kam Pin Industrial, which produces aluminium curtain walls for residential...
...At five, the first movie he sees is Cecil B DeMille’s lurid The Greatest Show on Earth; it leaves part of him forever petrified....
...Guadagnino has made a stylised Gen Z B-movie set in a grungy 1980s, the role of pop culture cipher long played by zombies and vampires now taken instead by “eaters”....
...In Rob Howell’s set the chintzy B&B bedroom becomes a hellish prison, a humble cushion a horror....
...Danny Alexander, then Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson, explained that the agreement would have to be ratified by their parliamentary party, their federal executive and finally a vote of the lay membership....
...There was an apposite anecdote in Danny Finkelstein’s Times column last week about Nigel Lawson: Lawson had lunch with George Osborne when the latter was shadow chancellor and was fighting a battle with...
...One thing it avoids is the B word. “We debated long and hard about bringing Brexit into it,” Beaufoy says....
...Yet Alice Diop’s film might at first seem loose-fit: a portrait of lives along the RER B commuter train line running out of Paris, focused mostly but not wholly on the working-class north-east suburbs....
...It’s a load of old nothing (and Danny Leigh was less sold on Awkwafina than I was) but entertaining enough for that....
...The FT’s Danny Leigh gives it three stars — I’m a solid five, because this sort of emotional uplift is a rare treat....
...The film calls in everywhere from Baku to Vienna to Washington DC, but really only goes from A to B. The age-old rogue male storyline plays out twist-free....
...The band’s newer faces are as equally adept at crafting bustling modal jazz as they are the spacious beats of hip-hop and R&B....
...Danny Leigh, who unlike me presumably did not drink the best part of a bottle of wine while watching, enjoyed it but thought it outstayed its welcome....
...The funds have primarily purchased Berkshire’s class B stock, which carries fractional economic and voting rights compared with A shares....
...Michael B Jordan stars in true story A Journal for Jordan — the title a coincidence — as Charles Monroe King, American soldier, fiancé and father....
...As B-movie lore dictates, the truth is out there but known only to one man: a Texan ex-Marine in a cheap room with a can of bug spray and a cache of classified documents, played by Riz Ahmed....
...Danny Leigh’s review is here, and readers in the UK can watch it, as I did, on Curzon Home Cinema....
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