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...Adam Sandler does Andrei Tarkovsky would once have been someone’s idea of joke. But that is the gist of Spaceman, the melancholic new Netflix science fiction....
...The other man, we learn, is Adam’s father. In a nearby house waits his mother (Claire Foy). Both are happy to see him; Adam is happy too....
...This secretive, self-contained figure, played by Adam Driver, would sooner have his brains blown out than become the subject of a Hollywood movie....
...“I am optimistic that we will bring a [damages] case and we’ll be successful,” says Martyn Day, co-founder of law firm Leigh Day....
...The Thin Blue Line uncovered the wrongful conviction of alleged murderer Randall Dale Adams, leading to an exoneration. His humour can also be darkly gonzo....
...At times, the wacky rancour aimed at Wall Street puts you in mind of The Big Short, Adam McKay’s black farce of the 2008 financial crash....
...Still, the makers of Dumb Money don’t warm to the idea the film could be a sequel to The Big Short, Adam McKay’s brilliant comic tableau of the crash. They prefer to reference The Social Network....
...— An issue of trust (Mary Williams Walsh / Medium) — How misreading Adam Smith helped spawn deaths of despair (Boston Review) — Robert Brenner’s unprofitable theory of global stagnation (Jacobin) —...
...The military have a favoured cleric they want to see installed; the supporting role of stooge falls to Adam, recruited by a colonel to act as his informant in Al-Azhar....
...Welcome to the world of professor Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), living in American domesticity with yoga-mindful wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and the offspring of this and previous marriages....
...BlackRock has hired Leigh Farris as global head of corporate communications, replacing Jim Badenhausen, who will retire. She joins from private equity group Carlyle....
...The opening scene is an onstage interview conducted by (real) New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, in front of a New Yorker crowd. The Tár CV is duly unfurled: an endless, glittering list of landmarks....
...Adam Curtis is not clairvoyant — yet long before the invasion of Ukraine, the film-maker and journalist was already focused on the bloody eastern edge of Europe....
...“It’s not cheek-by-jowl living [like in Clifton] but the compromise is that you are not near bars and restaurants,” says Adam Lock of Hamptons....
...Young Adam is growing up in 2022, to which Reynolds returns as his older self, a wisecracking action man from a future dystopia....
...Clean Up Gambling is working with Leigh Day to support customers of the betting platform....
...The latter appear once the movie (directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee) has conspired to deliver the stars into mortal danger in a tropical outpost....
...In a Netflix presentation of awkward tone and ritzy cast, Lawrence and DiCaprio are joined in Adam McKay’s black comedy by actors including Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet and Meryl Streep....
...A hotter potato than even The Power of the Dog and another Best Picture nominee, director Adam McKay’s starry, despairing farce caused mayhem from the start....
...But the film is mostly a celebratory romance set before the tragedy, Canedy (Chanté Adams) a Type A metropolitan driven wild by a Midwest army man of multi-dimensions....
...With Gucci played by Adam Driver and Reggiani by Lady Gaga, the first half hour is a romp, as charming as the rest is awful....
...In his review, Danny Leigh warns us that, as Don DeLillo’s novel is one of his favourite books, he is “both the film’s natural audience and the most snippy, over-possessive one possible”....
...(Fascinating interview with Carax by Danny Leigh here.)...
...Some of this echoes the films of documentary-maker Adam Curtis....
...His opponent is squire Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver). Among the crowd, the camera picks out Ben Affleck, co-writer of the film with Damon and Nicole Holofcener....
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