What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: December 18 to 22 Including Thomas Vinterberg s Another Round, Adam Brody in The Kid Detective, and the time-loop comedy Palm Springs by Norman Wilner on December 18th, 2020 at 10:30 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 18. And list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Another Round
(Thomas Vinterberg)
Director and co-writer Thomas Vinterberg’s latest reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen for a film slightly looser but no less unforgiving than their last collaboration, 2012’s
Another Round casts Mikkelsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, and Vinterberg mainstay Thomas Bo Larsen as high-school teachers who embark on a radical experiment: would their careers and relationships be better if they maintained a minimum blood-alcohol level of 0.05? The answer may not surprise anyone, but the path to it is both very funny and very grim, with the quartet adapting to
Mads Mikkelsen (centre) will drink to anything in Another Round.
NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 18. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Another Round
(Thomas Vinterberg)
Director/co-writer Vinterberg’s latest reunites him with Mads Mikkelsen for a film slightly looser but no less unforgiving than their last collaboration, 2012’s The Hunt. Another Round casts Mikkelsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang and Vinterberg mainstay Thomas Bo Larsen as high-school teachers who embark on a radical experiment: would their careers and relationships be better if they maintained a minimum blood-alcohol level of 0.05? The answer may not surprise anyone, but the path to it is both very funny and very grim, with the quartet adapting to their state of constant inebriation with varying levels of success. Vinterberg is an old hand at spinning awkward human moments into explosive comedy or soul-freezing dread, as the situation depends,
Allison Needles: New fire station near LNG plant on Tacoma Tideflats could sit empty when completed in 2021
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/17/2020 Allison Needles, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Dec. 17 Construction of a new fire station on Tacoma s Tideflats near Puget Sound Energy s liquefied natural gas facility is slated to be completed in early 2021.
There might be no fire engine to fill it.
Tacoma City Council passed an overall $3.7 billion 2021-22 budget in November that takes one engine out of commission due to a change in operations by the Fire Department to offset a deficit stemming from COVID-19 impacts.
Tacoma Fire Department identified Engine 5 to be taken out of service starting April 2021. Engine 5 serves Central Tacoma and the Tideflats and is currently housed in Station 6 at 1015 E. F St.