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KATE BECKINSALE steps up to see if she can claim the Theron crown in this latest female-fronted post-John Wick bisexually inflected actioner.
The Underworld star gets her own riff on cult-fave Crank, a rage-powered ball of hyper-violent Wickian chaos kept at bay only by periodic electric shocks. But she tosses the power switch aside when her hunky love interest is killed under dodgy circumstances and the trail to his killer leads all the way through to. The Underworld.
Beckinsale delivers a magnetic performance, effortlessly boosting an otherwise very nuts’n’bolts by-the-numbers female-led shoot ‘em up, not especially indistinguishable from Atomic Blonde, Anna, Lucy or Peppermint.
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La nuit des rois, de Philippe Lacôte, nous transporte au cœur de la Maca, célèbre prison d’Abidjan
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Interview » La Maca est une célèbre prison d’Abidjan, en Côte d’Ivoire, dirigée par un vieux détenu malade surnommé «Barbe Noire». Pour consolider son pouvoir vacillant, le caïd choisit un jeune pickpocket et le nomme «Roman». Ce rituel du «Roman», vieille tradition carcérale, oblige le jeune homme à raconter une histoire durant toute une nuit de lune rouge, sans quoi il sera mis à mort. «Roman» se lance alors corps et âme dans le récit quasi mythologique de la vie de Zama King, un bandit légendaire.
This Weekend: A Case for Laziness
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As the child of a Nigerian immigrant, my allergy to idleness was definitely nurture not nature. But you know the old proverb about all work turning Jack into a dull boy, and I’ve certainly grown to appreciate relaxation’s merits. In today’s Weekender, we make the case for laziness, offering ways to make peace with your inner couch potato, from a classical album and some shows worth starting to tech that will make your dry cleaning a breeze. Call us lazy, say we’re wasting our time, just don’t call us while we’re off the clock. Here are some picks for a weekend without worries.
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Song Kang-ho wonders whether you re the serial killer he s searching for in Memories of Murder.
I couldn’t get to the few movies that are being released in theaters this week, so I thought I’d run another of my yearly features delayed to the spring by [
gestures at everything]. I write this article about movies that I didn’t have a chance to review or write up in Film Shorts, and there were more of those this year. This piece is therefore longer than usual. Hope you’re okay with that.
The Danish title for this film translates as simply “Drunk,” which would have been a better name for this comedy about a group of high-school teachers who make a group bet to see which of them can drink the most alcohol during the day and still teach class. Mads Mikkelsen plays the history teacher who actually improves his job performance when he’s hammered, because he (like his colleagues) sucks at his job to begin with. The Oscar-nominated film comme
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JAIL TALES Koné plays a newcomer to a dreaded prison who must spin stories to survive in Lacôte s gritty fable. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched a prison drama from Ivory Coast that was short-listed for the 2021 Academy Awards. An inventive blend of realism and fable,
Night of the Kings streams through the Vermont International Film Foundation s Virtual Cinema through April 15. Find more info at vtiff.org.
The deal In most prisons, the warden s word is law. In Abidjan s notorious La MACA prison, we re told, the inmates themselves choose their king. For years, that has been Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu), but now illness has painted a target on his forehead. Tradition requires an ailing king to surrender his throne and his life, but Blackbeard won t go down without a f