Malcolmâs lawyers tried every trick in the book to save him, arguing that he was mentally unstable and shouldnât face the death penalty, but the courts didnât buy their story until game-changing evidence was revealed in a diary.
Few would say the same about the undisciplined orphans these four boys play in director David Gordon Greenâs odd-choice Toronto Film Festival opener, âNutcrackersâ: a near-feral wolfpack who depend on their uptight uncle, Michael Maxwell (Ben Stiller), to spare them the indignity of an orphanage after their parents die in a car accident.
The comedy opening TIFF marks Stillerâs first starring role in a movie since Mike Whiteâs Bradâs Status and Noah Baumbachâs Netflix family drama The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017.
The actress, currently seen on Peacockâs thriller limited series Apples Never Fall, joins Nicholas Galitzine (The Idea of You) and Camila Mendes in the adaptation of the popular toy brand first introduced in the 1980s.
Toward the end of Part One, when Baron Harkonnen (Stellan SkarsgĂ„rd) is recovering from his near death in an oil-like mud bath, Bautistaâs Rabban is given his marching orders by his uncle to ramp up spice production and kill the Fremen.
Sophie Dumond (Zazie Beetz), Arthurâs neighbor in Joker, makes a brief appearance when the character is brought in as a witness for the prosecution team led by young assistant district attorney Harvey Dent (Harry Lawtey) before his villainous alter ego Two-Face shows up.
The movie is based on the true story of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, two friends from Dundee, Scotland, who conned the music industry by using American accents and pretending to be a Californian rap duo called Silibil Nâ Brains.
While on this enforced break from work, she meets her brother, Jack (Leo Howard) at their father, Max Hightowerâs (Michael Biehn) gym for a fight.
For folks whoâve never heard of Casa Bonita, half the fun comes from discovering this low-quality, medium-concept, high-kitsch fantasyland that had so impressed Parker as a kid â an ersatz old-timey Mexican town conceived of equal parts imagination and bad taste.
She went on to cover a whoâs who of criminal defendants â Manson, Simpson, Jackson, Patty Hearst, Phil Spector, the Menendez Brothers, âNight Stalkerâ Richard Ramirez, âUnabomberâ Ted Kaczynski and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King.
The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) 2024 will screen documentaries about âwitches,â and zoos and animal rescue centers in Argentina, as well as first features from directors of varied backgrounds, organizers said on Wednesday as they unveiled the full program for this yearâs event.
The artful yet gory music video kicks off with a content warning before showing Carpenter choosing from an assortment of weapons, hauntingly singing âRock-a-bye baby, snug in your bed / Right now you are sleeping / And soon youâll be⊠dead.â The pop star then takes a moment to apply lipstick in the reflection of a large knife.
Be it âSing Street,â âThe Last Picture Show,â or âDazed and Confused,â coming-of-age films often capture the essence of the time they are set in.
Drawn in part from his own upbringing in an abusive religious school, âBad Educationâ anchors itself by way of Gael GarcĂa Bernal in what may arguably be his best performance, slipping into the chameleonic requirements of a story that explores the hardships of childhood and the comforts that we can provide each other, and those that are lost when weâre pulled apart.
Itâs three hours and 15 minutes long, itâs paced with a pleasing stateliness and overflows with incident and emotion â and it spins out the story of LĂĄszlĂł TĂłth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who journeys from Budapest to America after World War II, as if Corbet were making a biopic about a real person.
But on a day like this, amongst people like the Paiva family â Eunice, her engineer husband Rubens (Selton Mello) their five volleyball-playing, Coke-tanning, dog-adopting children and their live-in housekeeper Zeze (Pri Helena) â its presence is mostly felt only in radio reports of kidnapped diplomats and in the occasional army convoy that trundles down the road separating the beach from their large, airy home.
Sonyâs June offering Bad Boys: Ride or Die set into motion a major reset and a two-month box office recovery that made the âsins of the past disappear quickly in the rear-view mirror,â says Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
