Netflix movie review: Bad Lands – Sakura Ando shines in Japanese crime drama that recalls Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters but turns to trite thrills

3/5 stars Sakura Ando stars as a small-time grifter who gets in way over her head in Bad Lands, a Japanese crime drama that attempts to shine a light on the country’s predatory phone scamming industry. Directed by industry veteran Masato Harada, who enjoyed a return to form with last year’s Hell Dogs, the film … Read more

QUO VADIS, AIDA? wins the LUX Audience Award 2022 | News

“This film is a strong call for justice for the women and mothers of Srebrenica who witnessed the atrocious killing of over 8,000 loved ones. Such horrendous atrocities and such a crime against humanity must never be forgotten,” said President Metsola at the ceremony, which took place in the Strasbourg hemicycle. “The LUX Audience Award … Read more

In Netflix special, Chappelle says SF taught him ‘the trick to life’

FILE: Dave Chappelle performs during a midnight pop-up show at Radio City Music Hall on Oct. 16, 2022, in New York City. Jason Mendez/Getty Images for ABA Dave Chappelle just released a new comedy special streaming on Netflix called “The Dreamer,” and once again, San Francisco makes a major appearance.  Chappelle has a long history in … Read more

Could a Trump Win Put His Running Mate in Office?

How have we allowed one man to wreak so much havoc on our democracy? Years after Donald Trump was voted out of office, his destructiveness to our electoral system has become so infectious that those who loathe him are doing the work for him. In the past several months, dozens of legal challenges have sought … Read more

Mazda informa ventas récord en diciembre y resultados de ventas del ejercicio completo 2023

IRVINE, California, 3 de enero de 2024 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) anunció hoy que se registraron ventas totales en diciembre de 39,518 vehículos, es decir, un incremento del 44,8 por ciento en comparación con diciembre de 2022. Durante todo el ejercicio, la compañía vendió un total de 363,354 vehículos, lo que equivale … Read more

California Rose Parade Features Float for Armenian Mothers

Armenian Americans in Southern California celebrated their culture with a flowered float in the annual Rose Parade, moving on from a turbulent year that included Armenians’ exodus from their former enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan’s borders. Genia Dulot has our story from Pasadena. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic … Read more

Director of Mickey Mouse slasher film fully expects you to hate-watch it

As It Happens6:28Director of Mickey Mouse slasher film is totally cool with you hate-watching it The director of a Mickey Mouse slasher movie has a message for all the haters out there: Bring it on. The trailer for Mickey’s Mouse Trap dropped on Jan. 1, the same day the beloved Disney icon’s earliest iteration entered … Read more

the radical feminist poster group that pasted prints around Melbourne in the ‘80s

Jillposters was a self-funded radical feminist poster group active in Melbourne from 1983 until 1988. I was a founding member. I’m in the process of donating archival material and records to the RMIT Design Archive, so I’ve had cause to reflect recently on what impressive achievements we had for such a small and unstructured group. … Read more

Carol Vorderman hits out at Shaun Bailey’s ‘sexist’ comments about her | Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman has hit out at the former Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey over his “sexist” comments about her Instagram posts. Bailey said on GB News last week that Vorderman could not be a “serious political commentator” and post photos of herself at the gym. “Look, on one hand she’s got all that stuff, you … Read more

Netflix K-drama midseason recap: My Demon – Kim Yoo-jung, Song Kang trudge through tired and hackneyed fantasy romcom

Trouble is, for every Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, you get a dozen or more series that rely on fantasy to keep peddling the same old-fashioned and stereotypical tropes. That is exactly what My Demon is, a show that works very hard to give its audience exactly what it wants, and not a penny … Read more