Cara Delevingne

Only Murders in the Building – Persons of Interest

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Persons of Interest
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Only Murders in the Building returns with a Second Season with Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short), and Charles (Steve Martin) as persons of interest in the murder of Bunny (Jayne Houdyshell). The celebrity of their arrest creates interest in each member with Charles getting asked to appear as a supporting character in a new Brazzos show, Oliver getting propositioned by Amy Schumer (playing herself) to take the podcast to Hollywood, and Mabel’s art grabs the eye of a new friend (Cara Delevingne). However, despite their plans to leave the world of murder behind, events will eventually pull them back in.

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Carnival Row – Some Dark God Wakes

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  • Title: Carnival Row – Some Dark God Wakes
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Carnival Row - Some Dark God Wakes TV review

The best word to describe the first episode of Amazon’s new series Carnival Row is awkward. Attempting to blend fantasy, sci-fi, and a kinda-sorta (but not really) steampunk ascetic around a winding story lacking a true focus offers some interesting ideas but really shows no intention of heading somewhere interesting (at least until its final few minutes). Before we even get to a single scene, a dump of narrative exposition informs us about three different races, a war, refugees, and human smuggling across borders. In the first few minutes we also get refugees fleeing an occupied land and a shipwreck. None of this, however, takes place in the show’s primary setting. Here the shift focuses away from the faerie lands of Tirnanoc to the far more human lands of The Burgue where Inspector Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) is searching for a serial killer. Th premiere also offers glimpses at the charged political climate of the land (a not-so-subtle allusion to the U.S. and its current views on immigration) and, for good measure, throws in the proclivities of a politician’s son frequenting faerie whorehouses.

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Valerian and the Station of a Thousand Special Effects

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  • Title: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets movie reviewsWhether you are an optimist and view a glass of water as half-full or a pessimist and view it as half-empty, the fact is that there’s only water in half the glass. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a lot like that. Sure, half the glass is filled with terrific imagery and an impressively designed world. There are creatures, gadgets, and CGI aplenty. And even when the sci-fi plot gets a bit dicey it still has a cohesive plot (which is more than I can say for all films released this week). It would be easy to praise Valerian for only the things it does right and just as easy to slam it for all it gets wrong. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

The latest from director Luc Besson is based on the French comic series Valérian and Laureline. As in the comic, our story centers around a pair of spatio-temporal agents Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevingne). The script offers a glimpse into the contastly flirting partners’ lives aboard their ship and a mission that gets out of control before the film begins in earnest as the pair are called back to Alpa (the future version of the Intranational Space Station with thousands of aliens on board hurtling through space).

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