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May
This article contains spoilers for The Nevers episode 1 but not for future episodes. The Nevers is a series that often defies description. A Victorian-set fantasy adventure that features a gang of primarily young women who gain supernatural and superhuman abilities, it’s a story about everything from faith and prejudice to hope and change. Its narrative is sprawling and frequently confusing, with no real initial sense of how its disparate pieces connect to one another. (Or don’t.) And it features at least a dozen major characters who run the gamut from heroes to villains – and sometimes both at once.…
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May
This article contains Those Who Wish Me Dead spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review here. What’s on the piece of paper? Why exactly do Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult want this Connor kid dead so badly? The ending of Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead is purposefully vague about what all this killing was about. But as a news crew approaches the young lad, played by Finn Little, it becomes clear he is going to tell a story that a lot of shadowy people wanted to keep hidden. So what is that story and why did so many…
13
May
Based on a novel by Michael Koryta, Those Who Wish Me Dead is the second feature film directed by Taylor Sheridan, the writer and actor whose previous writing and directorial effort was Wind River with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. Sheridan has also penned acclaimed screenplays for both Sicario films and Hell or High Water, in addition to co-creating and writing the TV series Yellowstone. Those Who Wish Me Dead shares several common elements with all of these works, in that it is largely set in a vast rural area of the United States–in this case Montana–and it loosely follows…
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May
Hannah (Angelina Jolie), a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire, comes across a traumatized 12-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn.Rated: RRelease Date: May 14, 2021
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Oct
Star Trek doesn’t need exotic filming locations to tell a good science fiction story. For decades, this show survived mostly on sound stages and, like most TV series, that’s still where much of its production takes place. However, a few international shoots never hurt a show, right? While the bulk of Star Trek: Discovery films in Toronto, Canada (so, technically abroad for us yankees), the series has occasionally left North America to get some gorgeous shots of other corners of the universe. In Season 1, production traveled to Jordan for the series pilot, using the country’s deserts to film the…
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Jun
Tracing the story of Ella Fitzgerald’s life, this documentary film explores how her music became a soundtrack for a tumultuous century. From a 1934 talent contest at the Apollo theatre in Harlem, the film follows Ella’s extraordinary journey across 5 decades as she reflects the passions and troubles of the times in her music and her life.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jun 26, 2020
