Time Season 3 Review: Rehabilitation Left Off the Rota
Locked doors do surprisingly little to quiet Alderwick. Boys shout threats, hammer on doors, pace their cells, and turn their...
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Breeding animals for release into a Wildlife Reserve asks for a different kind of planning from filling an attractive enclosure. Planet Zoo 2 requires suitable age and fertility, attention to relatedness within the breeding pair, and sometimes further research before a release group is ready. Then there is the destination: enough water, appropriate vegetation, and an ecosystem that can use the species being introduced. The breeding program reaches beyond the zoo’s fences, giving decisions about the next generation a purpose that survives the departure of the animals themselves. That purpose becomes interesting because a reserve needs animals for different reasons....

Bastian Pastewka makes Fabian’s invented police credentials sound like something he might believe himself if he keeps talking. Playing the con artist turned counterfeit investigator in Fabian and the Deadly Wedding, he borrows the language of crime dramas and expands his supposed special-unit expertise with cheerful assurance. Then nervousness breaks through the performance. The pleasure comes from watching him manage that change: he needs the wedding guests to accept his authority, while we get to enjoy how precariously he holds it. I found myself rooting for the impersonation before becoming particularly interested in the investigation. Pastewka makes that response easy...

The schoolboy checking his hair in the mirror still has some authority over his appearance. That small privilege disappears quickly. A warning about a female ghost becomes a pursuit, rejection fails to protect him, and he dies while urinating, his eyes sucked from their sockets. Yuriyan Retriever then uses the liquid spreading across the restroom tiles to spell out Mag Mag. The body that horror has rendered helpless becomes material for a graphic joke. It is a startlingly indecent way to introduce a film, particularly because the boy’s terror has hardly had time to subside. The joke leaves an uncomfortable...

The cubing instructor is asleep while his elderly student demonstrates what she can do. Wu Youwei has accepted a teaching assignment at an assisted-living home, where the organizer hopes Rubik’s Cubes might help residents stave off dementia. Zhao Yanhong solves one in ten moves and calls out his laziness. Bai Xue’s It’s My Time finds a useful comic imbalance here: the activity offered to preserve an older person’s faculties exposes the younger professional’s failure to use his own. Zhao has been given something to occupy her time. She treats it as something worth mastering. Once that ability attracts attention, other...

“The biggest cost is to family,” Eamon Ryan says of his life in politics. The admission accompanies something quieter than the work that has kept him away: picking raspberries with his adult son Tommy, walking the dog, being available to another person without a public audience to persuade. Tommy is autistic and requires full-time care. These shared activities give Ryan’s regret a tangible measure. Time spent together cannot be banked against the good a minister hopes to accomplish elsewhere. The allotment asks for his presence, even as his public responsibilities make claims upon it. Spending additional time with Tommy becomes...

Before Evil Empire took on a full Castlevania game, the series’ Gothic imagery had already entered the French studio’s work through Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania. Belmont’s Curse reverses the direction of that exchange. A Japanese franchise built around European monsters now absorbs some of the visual energy associated with the developers who previously borrowed its creatures and castle. Calling this a homecoming would mistake geography for artistic ownership. The interesting question is what happens to familiar forms when the people interpreting them change. The exaggerated colors offer an immediate answer. Neon accents share space with Gothic architecture and eerie...
Locked doors do surprisingly little to quiet Alderwick. Boys shout threats, hammer on doors, pace their cells, and turn their...
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Read moreDetailsJeremy Strong took his box-office beating with a joke. After his film “The Social Reckoning” opened to a fraction of Jessica Chastain’s horror hit “Other Mommy,” he texted her a headline announcing her victory. Chastain shared the exchange on her Instagram Story. Strong sent an article headlined “Other Mommy Spanks...
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Read moreBreeding animals for release into a Wildlife Reserve asks for a different kind of planning from filling an attractive enclosure. Planet Zoo 2 requires suitable age and fertility, attention to...
Bastian Pastewka makes Fabian’s invented police credentials sound like something he might believe himself if he keeps talking. Playing the con artist turned counterfeit investigator in Fabian and the Deadly...
The schoolboy checking his hair in the mirror still has some authority over his appearance. That small privilege disappears quickly. A warning about a female ghost becomes a pursuit, rejection...
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Breeding animals for release into a Wildlife Reserve asks for a different kind of planning from filling an attractive enclosure....
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