0 Arts & Entertainment The working-class neo-noir thriller "Emily the Criminal" lights up the big screen. Horror-comedy "Bodies Bodies Bodies" expands nationwide. Beau Behan , Patch Staff Posted Reply This weekend, movies with generational themes and social commentaries dominate the big screen. Care for a working-class neo-noir thriller? "Emily the Criminal," which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, shines a spotlight on the world of student debt, starring Aubrey Plaza in the title role of a Millennial trying to make ends meet in a service gig economy. If you're looking for a Gen Z horror-comedy, look no further than "Bodies Bodies Bodies," which expands nationwide this weekend. The film stars Pete Davidson, Amandla Stenberg, Chase Sui Wonders, Myha'la Herrold, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott and Lee Pace as a group of friends suddenly propelled into a dangerous web of mistrusts. Related … [Read more...] about Aubrey Plaza Electrifies In ‘Emily The Criminal’
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‘The Villainess’: Inside the Most Kickass Action Movie of the Year
From Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman and Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde to Katherine Waterston in Alien: Covenant and Dafne Keen in Logan , 2017 has already proven to be the year of the kickass big-screen heroine. Felling adversaries with both intensity and style, each of them has triumphed in infusing the traditionally male-oriented genre with a dose of enlivening anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better ferocity. More stunning still, however, is that this development has also corresponded with what might best be called Action Movie Escalation, a movement in which directors and stars strive to one-up competitors (and predecessors) in terms of one-against-many scenarios, complex choreography and punishing combat. It’s a trend epitomized by Atomic Blonde ’s jaw-dropping stairwell throwdown, an ingeniously staged sequence of virtuosic violence which, among other things, firmly established Theron as cinema’s most ferocious female enforcer . Or, at least, it seemed to, until … [Read more...] about ‘The Villainess’: Inside the Most Kickass Action Movie of the Year
Biden and Xi Jinping plan first in-person meet up amid rocky relations
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 12 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are planning their first in-person meeting since Biden took office in Southeast Asia come November, the Wall Street Journal first reported Friday. The trip will be Xi’s first foreign trip in three years and comes as tension between Washington and Beijing mounts following increased Chinese aggression toward Taiwan. Geopolitical relations between the two superpowers have been strained for years following the COVID-19 pandemic, a trade war and increased pressure from the West placed on Beijing to address gross human rights abuses. TAIWAN REJECTS CHINA'S 'ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS' PLAN FOR THE ISLAND President Joe Biden meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt … [Read more...] about Biden and Xi Jinping plan first in-person meet up amid rocky relations
