This is our first newsletter of 2021, and it has already been quite a year.
The events of this past week surpass any thoughts on movies at the moment. I feel I have likely said this before, but there is no one better at sorting through the cultural confusion of a moment like Wednesday than Times TV critic Lorraine Ali. As she wrote, “Wednesday’s violent attack cannot be seen as yet another preparatory ‘stress test’ for democracy. It was the real thing. We, as a nation, are not immune to the crises in which we are so often intervening overseas, parachuting in to save the day and frequently mucking things up further by trying … we should never again assume we’ll be saved from the fate of nations that have fallen victim to tyrants by mere privilege alone.”
Vanessa Kirby conveys miracle of childbirth in Pieces of a Woman
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Dans Pieces of a Woman , Vanessa Kirby affronte le deuil d un enfant
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IN THIS seventh collaboration between action titan Jackie Chan and director Stanley Tong, the Middle Kingdom gives its answer to the Mission: Impossible franchise in an international espionage romp with all the lunacy of a Fast & Furious sequel.
Chan is Tang Huanting, the London-based leader of the elite titular security service, whose team are called into action to protect an asset’s daughter from a Middle Eastern warlord in pursuit of next-generation WMDs.
Globe-hopping action straddles three continents in a cheeky adventure thriller, laden with over-the-top stunts, ludicrously implausible set-pieces and even some CGI lions to boot.
Having been behind some of Chan’s more notable actioners, including his American breakout, Rumble in the Bronx, Tong more than knows how to stage a handsome-looking kinetic thriller and he certainly doesn’t disappoint.