The New York TimesNow‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemoniumverified_publisherThe New York Times - Lisa KennedyThe writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide. For “Stress Positions,” the writer-director Theda Hammel shows her hand when a character says, in a world-weary voice-over, that the madness …
The New York TimesNow‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemandingverified_publisherThe New York Times - Alissa WilkinsonGuy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing. I travel by air every couple of months, and always think about a single, burning question: What makes for a great airplane movie? Not movies about being on planes. Movies to be watched on planes, …
The New York TimesNow‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbersverified_publisherThe New York Times - Manohla DargisIn this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there will be gore? You bet. A cheerfully obvious splatterthon, the new horror movie “Abigail” follows a simple, time-tested recipe that calls for a minimal amount of …
The New York TimesNow‘Blood for Dust’ Review: Dire Straitsverified_publisherThe New York Times - Ben KenigsbergThis drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness. In “Blood for Dust,” Cliff (Scoot McNairy), a salesman, hawks defibrillators across the upper western states. The devices are a tough sell, he admits. Yet this sluggish, self-serious job-gone-wrong movie could itself …
NowFamily, friends of hostage run Tel Aviv race in his honortimesofisrael.com - Jessica SteinbergAs runners lined up Wednesday evening for the annual Tel Aviv Night Run, dozens of runners gathered at the starting point of the ten-kilometer race …
20 hours agoQatar says it’s reconsidering hostage talks mediator role after suffering ‘abuse’timesofisrael.com - AgenciesQatar is reassessing its role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas after suffering criticism, its prime minister said on Wednesday. “Qatar is in the …