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...The other Marvels (plural) now include the super-powered but plainly-named Monica Rambeau, played by Teyonah Parris; and teenage Desi-American fangirl Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a live-wire audience proxy...
...In 2012, the Dodgers franchise was bought at auction by an affiliate of Guggenheim Partners, a then-obscure, new-ish money manager headquartered in Chicago with a large office in Santa Monica, California...
...Unlike last time, a woman (Phoenix, played by Monica Barbaro) now makes it into the air. Elsewhere, gender equality wobbles. Jennifer Connelly is cast as an old flame....
...Stars Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, neither apparently yet in character, stride down Santa Monica Boulevard alongside the composers, Los Angeles art-poppers Sparks....
...Monica’s mother, Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn), visits from a homeland David has never seen; their relationship grows cutely adversarial....
...His wife May (Monica Dolan) is sharper still. But his odd kinship with Pretty is the heart of the movie....
...Other highlights from the first quarter include Love Marriage (Virago, February), a new novel from Monica Ali, and Anne Tyler’s French Braid (Chatto & Windus, March)....
...He is Daniel Bagnold (Earl Cave), 15, a lank death-metal devotee, caught in the eternal torment of shoe shopping with his librarian mother, Sue (Monica Dolan). Outside, the sun is out....
...Already reeling, he is hurled by fate into the path of Monica (Sakurako Konishi), a call girl haunted by the ghost of her dirtbag father and stalked too by warring yakuza, jostling through a murderous coup...
...In Rome he duly unzips a widow (Monica Bellucci, barely there) who tells him of “a place that has no mercy”....
...If that were all, we would shrug, but she is played by Monica Vitti, he by Alain Delon, and one of the most coolly jarring endings in 1960s cinema awaits....
...Starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, it was a brutal account of rape and revenge, unfolding backwards over a day to an unbearably poignant end/beginning....
...Instead, many of the studio dummies veer more towards Leigh Bowery than Barbie....
...The starting point here, explained the show notes, was a “much washed camel blanket” as seen in portraits of the blonde screen star shot by George Barris on Santa Monica beach in 1962....
...Britain’s Timothy Spall won for impersonating the title painter, with panache and a wonderful wounded intensity, in Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner....
...Cannes’ two favourite Brits, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, have both fashioned period pieces....
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...It focuses on an old judge retiring to his home in the Himalayas and offers a less optimistic vision of multi-culturalism than popular writers on the subject, such as Zadie Smith and Monica Ali....
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