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By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press ” Close ” is a crushing story of grief told with grace by Belgian director Lukas Dhont. At its heart is a friendship, loving and deep, between two 13-year-old boys, Leo (Eden Dambrine) and Remi (Gustav De Waele), in the countryside. It is summertime when we meet them, playing and dreaming and out of breath running through fields of colorful flowers and biking on idyllic dirt roads. They are affectionate and sweet. At their frequent sleepovers, Leo delicately blows on Remi’s neck before…

Gentle, friendly, faintly bleary – and sans makeup – Pamela Anderson is an authentically likable screen presence in this intimate, if somehow elusive, documentary portrait from Ryan White; it is about her life and times and the super-strength misogyny she has faced from liberals and satirists in the long endgame of her celebrity career. (This, incidentally, is yet another documentary which shows how very badly talkshow monologues can date.)Anderson is interviewed at her lakeside property in Canada, musing wryly and…

“The past is a foreign country” has finally become part of my present. I’ve just read LP Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go-Between for the first time, a book everyone else my age read at least 45 years ago. I’d seen the film and that seemed to be enough. And then, a few weeks ago, I came across a seductive Penguin edition in a secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh and became curious to find out what I’d been missing.A book about a boy becoming initiated into the mysteries of adult life (sex and its frequent thematic partner,…

Anyone who thinks the practice of remaking classic TV shows into blockbuster movies is a fairly new phenomenon need look no further than The Fugitive, the classic 1993 action thriller that turned out to be so great that everyone forgave and forgot that it was adapted from the TV series of the same name that ran for 120 episodes between 1963 and 1967. On top of earning an incredible $369 million at the box office on a $44 million, the nonstop thrill ride entered rarefied air for a crowd-pleasing genre film by securing…

The man charged in the killing of Takeoff says he’s innocent, Billboard reports.33-year-old Patrick Xavier Clark, who was arrested and charged with the murder of Takeoff last week, said through his attorneys that he didn’t fatally shoot the rapper in Houston, Texas last month. During a brief court appearance on Monday, attorney Letitia Quinones said her client is “nervous” and “concerned” because he is “being charged with something that he believes he’s innocent of, so how would anyone do in that type of…

It’s a drizzly afternoon in October, and under the curved-glass ceiling of an old, quietly imposing Edwardian library building in Homerton, a group of teenagers and twentysomethings are careering around a small rehearsal room, jostling and banging and shouting and squawking to a bruising combination of kicks and snares. It’s not immediately clear what’s going on until director Dominic Garfield sidles over to offer on oblique explanation. “This one’s a bit techy,” he says, eyes focused on the unfolding chaos.The group are…

Bono suggested the idea of giving away the album for free in 2014 to Tim Cook.Image: Emmanuel Dunand (Getty Images)Before you could stream your favorite album at will on the likes of Spotify or Apple Music, there was iTunes. In an experimental release strategy, U2's Songs of Innocence was uploaded to the iTunes libraries of users across the world, resulting in a wave of backlash. Eight years later, the band’s frontman Bono has finally apologized for the havoc his project wreaked.01:08Ernie Hudson | First FandomsFriday…

Asobo Studio has said that A Plague Tale: Requiem wasn’t in the cards during the development of the first game A Plague Tale: Innocence. During a Gamescom 2022 interview with PCGames N, lead level designer Kevin Pinson explained that the sequel “was not a given” after Innocence was released. “First, we know we’re a small team, since we were forty people – so we put all our hearts into Innocence, and we did everything we wanted to do with the game,” Pinson explained.  “And so seeing the reception to the game was…

PlayStation Plus' July 2021 lineup has been (officially) revealed. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — the 2018 entry in Activision's long-running shooter franchise, the first one with a battle royale mode and first without a traditional single-player campaign — leads the way. Alongside it, we have last September's WWE 2K Battlegrounds, a wrestling game spin-off that's more cartoony than regular WWE 2K titles in every aspect. The third and final PS Plus title for July is A Plague Tale: Innocence, the 2019 survival horror stealth…

ATLANTA — Rapper Gunna, who was arrested last month on a racketeering charge, said in a message posted on social media that 2022 has been one of the best years of his life, “despite this difficult situation.”The rapper, whose given name is Sergio Kitchens, proclaimed his innocence and said the picture that is being painted of him is “ugly and untrue.”“For now, I don’t have my freedom. But I am innocent. I am being falsely accused and will never stop fighting to clear my name!” the message says.Attorney Kristen Novay —…