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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.
The Brutalist chronicles the journey of Hungarian-born Jewish architect, LĂĄszlĂł TĂłth (Adrien Brody), who emigrates to the United States in 1947 to experience the âAmerican dream.â Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract with a mysterious and wealthy client, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), that will change the course of the next 30 years of his life.
In a recent interview with IMDb, Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh OâConnor shared some of their favorite scenes from their upcoming film Challengers, offering a glimpse into the movieâs stunning visuals and the emotional depth of its characters.
âThe Order,â written by Zach Baylin and directed by Justin Kurzel (whose âNitramâ chillingly dramatized the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania), is at once a supremely intelligent docudrama about the rise of the white-supremacist movement and a riveting crime story.