
The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts
The Art Newspaper
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The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts
The Art Newspaper
Original source

Ralph Macchio and Tiffany Haddish feature in a ropey and implausible manhunt thriller as cops search for the missing twin of a murdered teenager This small-town police thriller sets its stall out intriguingly, with a murder that seems actively begging to be solved. The perp chose to dump his victim – the 14-year-old daughter of a local political bigwig – into a part of the Mississippi River where she was likely to resurface, and from a highly visible bridge. When veteran detective Alan Kramer (Devon Sawa) and rookie forensic psychologist Amelia Pembrock (Maggie Grace) show up to investigate, they are immediately alerted to a gun in the bushes just yards away. As a colleague observes: “This isn’t a clean-up. It’s a message.” But Brando Benetton’s debut film sadly fails to capitalise on the misdirection at play in this open-goal crime scene. Instead of using it to pry open community secrets, he gives us a ropey and implausible manhunt. As Kramer and Pembrock race to locate the girl’s twin, who is presumably still in the killer’s clutches, they zero in on local butcher Boris (Darron Dunbar). He has a sex-pest rap sheet and lives with his mother – which apparently ticks all the boxes for a profiling genius such as Pembrock. Kramer pulls her up for being unbothered by the lack of actual prosecutable evidence. But carping is about the only investigative contribution this seasoned criminologist makes here (and what’s a criminologist – a crime sociologist – doing out in the field anyway?). Continue reading...

At the risk of feeling like an elderly Rose at the end of Titanic, it's been a long time since Skyrim came out. The wait for The Elder Scrolls VI has been even longer. I was just 11 years old when I saw a copy of the game on PS3 and was enamored enough with the cover art to give it a try. Now, 15 years later, I'm 26 and still waiting. However, as someone who never got to play the original, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is at least giving me my Bethesda fix for the time being. And you can join me in Cyrodiil, as the game has hit its lowest price yet on PC. Imprisoned in a cell and seemingly destined to rot, your luck changes when Emperor Uriel Septim VII arrives with his guards and uses the secret exit hidden in your jail. As luck would have it, you've been pardoned—lucky you. Not so lucky is the fact that the Emperor's sons have been killed, and the assassins are after him, too. Now you're tagging along with death chomping at your heels. Fortunately, you're not dying today. I can't say the same for Uriel, who gifts you the Amulet of Kings before shuffling off this mortal coil. With your freedom secured and the Emperor dead, the world seems more open than ever. That is, until the Daedra invade Tamriel. Of course, the main quest is sitting right there, demanding that you save the world and stop the Daedra from invading through Oblivion Gates. But how can you resist helping a paranoid Wood Elf who wants you to tail people and report on their weird behavior? Or getting involved in a party where you can kill all the guests in a variety of creative ways? You could even hunt them down one by one. It's up to you. The Daedra may be taking over the world, but I'm busy. Can they take a rain check? The remaster isn't just a quick visual touch-up being sold at full price. The graphics have been enhanced across the board, bringing the game closer to modern standards while remaining faithful to the 2006 classic. It also includes the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine expansions, making this the complete Cyrodiil experience. As someone who never got to enjoy Oblivion when it was first released, it was great to finally play it—and enjoy a new Elder Scrolls game (to me). Bethesda, where's the sixth entry? Right now, you can grab The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for just $31.49 / £31.49 at Fanatical, getting a Steam key at 37% off. That's lower than the game's previous lowest price on Steam. Considering we've been waiting nearly two decades since Oblivion's original release for a new Elder Scrolls game—and over a decade since Skyrim—what else have you got to play? Don't you dare look at the upcoming games and tell me I'm wrong. Disclosure: GameSpot and Fanatical are both owned by Fandom. This story was created in collaboration with Fanatical’s deals team.

The actor reveals a terrifying spell in a psychiatric facility as a teen.

TEHRAN- A restored 4K version of the late Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beyzaie’s acclaimed film “Bashu, the Little Stranger” will be screened at Cinéma Moderne in Montreal, Canada, on Wednesday evening.
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