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...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 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....
...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....
...Ali was already in his 40s — a working actor for almost two decades — when cast by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins....
...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....
...Jenkins makes his Railroad a marvel unto itself....
...In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director with The Hurt Locker; three years later, Steve McQueen the first black film-maker to direct a Best Picture (12 Years a Slave); Barry Jenkins...
...Scam artists would be a grand term for the figures responsible — two Fagins and an Artful Dodger, a pair of ageing grifters played by Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger and their unloved, slump-shouldered...
...Over the year, the pair regularly met in Manhattan for what Jenkins calls “film-maker therapy”....
...If Annan upends our expectations, the real-life punishment was draconian anyway — eight years in the sweat and dust of Pretoria Central Prison for Lee, 12 for Jenkin....
...Instead, Barry Jenkins’ 2017 Best Picture win for the electrifying Moonlight — a victory that was meant to announce a better future — now looks horribly like a blip....
...Among young directors in the top tier of American cinema, if Barry Jenkins is a poet and Greta Gerwig a breath of fresh air, the Safdies are too much coffee after not enough sleep, their manic tales of New...
...Could a film better fit the current British moment than Bait, the debut feature from director Mark Jenkin?...
...Moral Money On LinkedIN live: One on one with Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer On Thursday at 10am EST, our very own Gillian Tett will be going live on her LinkedIn with Danny Meyer, chief executive of Union Square...
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...Now, Green joins a number of high-profile black directors — he lists Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Ryan Coogler and Boots Riley. “But the fact I can name them means we still have a long way to go....
...Some people argued that once Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight won the Best Picture Oscar this year, a new chapter would begin for black film-makers. “Yes, they did,” she replies....
...‘Moonlight’ goes on general release in the UK on February 17; Danny Leigh is an FT film critic Portraits by Pani Paul, with grooming by Mira H. using MAC....
...But Jenkins is as gifted with sound as vision. At one point, it drops out altogether, leaving us in silence with a slamming door and screaming face. You’re left open-mouthed too....
...Ashurst and Herbert Smith Freehills, for example, are both led by partners from the Australian firms — Paul Jenkins and Mark Rigotti respectively....
...Sir Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times and a champion of geography, says the subject was once regarded as “the queen of sciences”....
...It’s not just that Jenkins can’t sing in a way more profound than the way you or I can’t sing. The crux of Florence Foster Jenkins is that she loved to share her talent....
...The company says Danny Breithaupt is stepping down with immediate effect as after a review, it has “decided that a new leader is needed”....
...Florence Foster Jenkins will be the eighth film he’s made since he qualified for a pension in 2006. He puts it down to the example of his father, a Leicester doctor who worked 50 weeks a year....
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