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The classic horror movie trope is rather fitting considering for the past two weeks serious fractures within Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party (UCP) have begun to surface after dozens of party MLAs publicly criticized Premier Jason Kenney for recent COVID-19 restrictions they say move the province backwards. Kenney responded saying would boot members from his caucus if they break COVID-19 health rules or encourage others to do so.
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Thirty-nine years. Thatâs the amount of time that Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg has been working on producing an adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straubâs 1984 novel
The Talisman. The filmmaker recognized the incredible potential for the book two full years before it was published â which was when he bought the screen rights â but he has spent the decades since then trying to figure out how to make it into a movie. Multiple directors have come and gone, such as Josh Boone in 2017 and Mike Barker in 2019, but the project has never managed to keep its gears turning long enough to get into production.
Emergence, The Crossing. After achieving moderate success with
Manifest (a missing plane shows up five years later and the passengers haven’t aged a day), NBC is risking it all with
Debris, which doesn’t lean enough into its concept enough
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With the rise of streaming platforms and binge models, it’s become even more difficult for a weekly series in this genre to gain momentum. The pilot for
Debris fails to strike a balance between character and plot development. The episode introduces MI6 s Finola Jones (Riann Steele) and CIA Agent Bryan Beneventi (Jonathan Tucker), who form an unlikely alliance while leading a team to intercept the debris. As the pilot opens, the duo tries to capture three men conducting an illegal transaction of one of these debris pieces that a hotel maid accidentally touches. She is then transported several floors below, Nightcrawler-style, to her death. As they study this particular Dorito-shaped debris (seriously, get used to this wor