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...Edwards is a movie nut of a particular stripe, the kind who, if he weren’t a gifted director, might keenly invite you to check out his Blu-rays....
...Where to watch “That Cold Day in the Park”: Amazon Prime, Google Play and DVD/Blu-ray ‘The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open’ (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, 2019) For all the closeness...
...God is mostly referenced only in tell-tale rays of light in the darkness. (The look of the movie can actually be striking.)...
...Letter in response to this article: Why Ireland struggles to kick the low-tax habit / From Ray Kinsella, Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland...
...Instead, it is a stark X-ray of state power both deeply tied to the present moment and the timeless dread of the knock at the door. Fittingly, it takes Winner to finally crack the code....
...Frozen was soon the bestselling Blu-ray in US history. Follow the breadcrumb trail and you see how Disney came to stake so much on Disney+....
...Haunted Mansion is played for family-friendly laughs, with much cobwebbed Scooby-Doobery and character comedy — Haddish is enjoyably ripe as a Crescent City psychic, while good-sport chuckles come from Danny...
...The late Ray Liotta plays the druglord missing a stash. Is it a spoiler to say the coke does little for the temper of the animal? Gore is abundant. The humans, of course, bring their own chaos....
...women, I realised, but women making first features: Nikyatu Jusu’s pinpoint social horror Nanny; Jessica Kingdon’s documentary of Chinese consumerism, Ascension; Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, a striking X-ray...
...(The younger woman is nimbly played by Thuso Mbedu, star of Barry Jenkins’ serial The Underground Railroad.) The story’s beats might feel vintage or simply second-hand, depending on taste....
...Jake Lamar’s Viper’s Dream (No Exit, £9.99), with its African-American gangster anti-hero, is reminiscent of Ray Celestin’s jazz-oriented thrillers and similarly introduces real jazz greats into a fascinating...
...In 2004, while he was getting a law degree, he was cast on the NBC reality show The Contender, hosted by Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard....
...She in turn joins Judi Dench’s tragicomic Philomena Lee and Meryl Streep’s amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in Frears’ catalogue of singular women. He dismisses talk of feminism....
...Amid the current churn of French politics, We (Nous) arrives as a bracingly intelligent X-ray of the Fifth Republic. In this boldly structured documentary, every moment is there for a reason....
...A new king of the hedge fund industry Ken Griffin’s Citadel has officially displaced Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater as the most successful hedge fund of all time according to LCH Investments, whose closely watched...
...This one only feels proximate to Del Toro’s Blu-ray collection. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas from January 21 and in US cinemas now...
...Playtime (1967) Where to watch: Blu-ray, DVD and (US) The Criterion Channel Godard was not the only titan to point Paris towards things to come....
...I first danced with a girl at a school disco that year to the deathless theme tune by Ray Parker Jr....
...Ali was already in his 40s — a working actor for almost two decades — when cast by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins....
...Failure to learn from the lessons of 2008 caused the LDI pension blow-up, writes deputy editor Patrick Jenkins. There are clear parallels with many of the issues that led to the financial crisis....
...Dear Diary (1993) Where to watch: Blu-ray/DVD and (US) Amazon Prime Another adventure on a Vespa, director Nanni Moretti’s breakthrough film came steeped in Rome and movies....
...(For a different, more sophisticated take, try Danny Leigh.)...
...Here he splices the hard-boiled with something else — a journalistic tilt into economic history, reminiscent less of Ocean’s Eleven than his X-rays of corporate America, Side Effects or The Laundromat....
...Paul Jenkins, global chief executive of Ashurst, also says law firms may be unable to remain neutral....
...This is where director Barry Jenkins was born and raised, and his breakthrough movie is the story of a boy growing up here in three indelible acts....
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