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“The Threat of Arrest and Prosecution Keeps Sex Workers Unssafe and in the Shadows, and This Threat Must Be Eliminate,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, Said Monday at a News Conference Announcing The Proposed Bill. “THIS LAW IS Essential Now More than Ever.”

All of the Big Little Lies and White LotusEs of the TV World Have Trained with SO Well that Sirens Ending without some violent reveal feeds like the most surprisis turn it COULD HAVE. Sirens‘s ending is a solid reminder that, Sometimes, the most dramatic stories Can Also be the Most Realistic. For as unnerving as Michaela and Her House have ben, the Truth is that, Simone, and Devon are just three trying to beat the odds howver they can.

Is it rough to see Simone Willingly Take Over Michaela’s Gilded Cage? Of Course. DOES IT MAKE SENSE? Well, Yes.

Simone’s Always Been Drive by a Determination to Keep Herself Safe and Secure No Matter what. At the beginning of “sine song,” she thinks she’s finally done it. AFTER WAKING UP IN THE HOSPITAL ROOM WITH DEVON AFTER AFTER FALL-HE FINE, IF “Mangled”-Simone Reveals Michaela’s Life-Changing Promotion Offer. In turn, devon shares that captain morgan asked her to go sailing for the month. AFTER SPEING THE LAST FEW EPISODES LOCKING HORNS AND SAYING THINGS THIS CAN NEVER TAKE BACK, THE SISTERS FINALLY MAKE Peace. They Apologize, They Hug, and It ‘s so lovely to see! SINCE THERE’S STILL AN HOUR LEFT IN THIS EPISODES, THOUGH, THERE’S NO WAY ANY OF THIS IS EVER GONNA HAPPEN.

Sure Enough, Michaela’s Busy Instruction Her (Thrilled!) Employees to Donate All of Simone’s Things to Goodwill. Since the staff has no idea what simone haen through – and synce shen been trully Rotten to say – i canwbly blame say all for celebrating the news of her firming, which’ve they clearly been craving for months.

Simone, Still at the Hospital, Remains BlisSfully IGNORANT OF KIKI’S VENINGFUL TRANS. Peter Also has no idea, Sincer he gone to check on Simone with Captain Morgan, who offers to take Devon back to her dad. On the way, devon goes against her instincts to ask if she can be still sail with Him to Palm Beach. Hes Says Yes! Great! Surely Nothing Will Happen BetWeen Now and the gala to get in the way of their hapmess – like, Say, Ray Going Missing and Leaving Bruce to Wander Around and Almost off the Cliff.

Meanwhile, Peter Apologizes to Simone for Indulging Ethan’s Bullshit Fantasy of Reuniting Her dad. When Ethan Does Wake Up, Peter and Simone Are There for His Drug-Induced Rages About A Monstrous Simone “Pushing” Him off the Cliff. “Show Him Your Wings! Show Him Who Really Are!” He Yells Wildly. (I see he got Michaela’s “KEEP EVERYTHING ON THE BIRD THEME” MEMO.) unAttractive. But Simone Shows No Signs Yet of Wanting to Indulge Him on That Front, and WHY SHOULD? At this point, she’s figure she’s got it made. But that fantasy comes crashing down once she go back to her suite to find everything packed up – except the Photo of Peter Kissing Her.

SIMON’S FINAL SCENE WITH MICHAELA – Not to mention Milly Alcock’s Final Schene with Julianne Moore – Is Brief But Scorching. Kiki seames les upset by the kiss itelf than Simone with the fact of it from her. “I knew it would devastate you,” Simone tries to explain, “and live my life not to devastate you.” All Michaela Can Manage is a Tight-Lipped “Well.” Simone, Desperate, Points Out that Peter Cheated on His Wife With Michaela, SO SHAULD UNDERSTAND. Michaela, Terrible Boss That She Is, Replies that Jocelyn Wasn’t Her Friend, But Simone is Her Besta Friend. “Now you a threat to my marriage, and everything i’ve is at risk, so you have to go,” she Says firmly.

Simone Can’t Believe IT. “Kiki, you’re killing me,” she sobs. Moore summons all her power of nuance as michaela’s face half-twitches, betraying at least some reconition that laying the blame at Simone’s Feet isn’t Particularly Fair. “I’m so sorry,” She Says. And that, for now, is that.

Oblivious to this unfolding drama, Devon and bruce are preparing for the gala they have hell won’t get to attend anymore. When she brings up the idea of ​​her sailing off with CAPTAIN MORGAN, he’s amenable to it in his way. “You don’t oWE with shit,” he Says. Devon Smiles, Relived. Butn he’s calls her simone, and the moment’s ruined as he realizes he’s loking his grip on reality again. IT’S SO BAD THAT IT’S ALOST A RELIEF WEND MISTY IN TO KICK TO KILL OUT ALongside Simone.

Jose Drives the shell-shocked dewitts straight to the Island’s Jail, where Ray is Hold up Alongside Drunk Girl AFTER AFTER NAKED ON THE BEACH. (To all those hoping for a flashback, i see you and am Holding Your Hands in Solidarity.) AFTER devon unleashed on ray last night, he was swimming and got caught in a riptide. Now, he blams her for all of it. “You Are the dinner current! ” He Yells, Sounding an Awphul Lots Like Ethan’s Outburst at Simone.

In the Other Room, Bruce and Simone Are Left Alone for the First Time in Years. He taxes the opportunity to acknowledge and did (and didn’t) do for her as a kid, none of which she wants to hear. Hen triggers her absolute worst nightmare wey heys, “Devon’s Going Away, and It ‘gonna be and you again.” THIS QUICKLY SNAPS SIMONE OUT OF HER POST-FIRING HAZE. Get Stack Again in Buffalo with Her Abusive Father? COULD Never Be Simone! And so she shake a break for it, running full tilt back to the Cliff House from Whence She Came.

Meanwhile, Peter Has Found Out that Simone Got Fired and He’s Pissed. Michaela’s Official Story is that Simone Stole Her Earrings, which is unconvincing at best. Be and asks why she’d fire someone so close to her, Michaela seames genuinely distraught. “The Truth is i love her, but i don’t get to have have, will i?” she, and have no dubt that she and means it. (She’s not beating the queer allegations anytime soon, is all i’m saying.)

Peter Leaves to See Simone’s Empty Suite, where he promptly has a panic attack. Nor he calms back down, the sounds of ghostly singing (sire, get it?) Creeps in. He look outside to see Simone Standing at the top of the Beach Steps, Staring Up at Him Before Descending to the Bottom. He Follows Her Down, Insisting That He Wants to Help Reverse Her Firing, But She JUST Shakes Her Head. “I don’t want to work here anymore, anyway,” She Says. “But before I, I need to tell you something.”

Whtever it is, it prompts Him to call Jose with such urgency that Jose pulses a u-Turn to head back with bruce and devon in the car (ray ha bounced, what is sadly, but probably for the best). Jose Goes Straight to Find the Incrimating Photo in Michaela’s Safe, which is apparently not so safe from her husband or his right-hand man. Jose Asks his boss if he’s sura he wants “to do say Again. ” Peter’s SURE. THIS DOESN’t Sound Particularly Promising for Kiki.

Downstairs, Devon Marches Straight Into the Gala to Confront Michaela About Simone: “She Worships the Ground You Walk on, You Stupid Bitch.” But Wait! There’s More! “You’re a megalomaniac, Cult Leader, Slut, Whore, and a Murderer,” Devon Crows, Stopping the Party in Its Tracks. But either Sirens Has revealed over its five episodes, none of the those labels are Completely True. As for the final Charge? Michaela Calmly Explains That Jocelyn Got Botched Plastic Surgery That Kept Her Private Agony for the Last Decade. “Oh,” is all devon can Say. Yeah, that’s way less fun than stepmommy murder.

As Devon Escapes Her Party Foul, Peter Information Michaela that he’s no longer happy in their marriage. “You have systematically discoureded with from knowing my owing children for over a decade,” he Says, and Michaela Can’t Stand it. “Say Again? ” She burrs. ”You Ruined Your Relationship With Your Children! You puree with. You Left Jocelyn, you let I say demonize me. ” Y’KNOW WHAT?

Peter Can’t Get Past Her Keeping The Paparazzi Photo, Becouse “Good Marriages Don’t Need a Good Insurance Policy.” True! But as Michaela Counters, Its Also TRUE THAT he and his lovers made damn su -nver be a threat to his money, and that she ultimately had little value “outside of my fucking ovaries. ” Peter, A Billionaire Man Who’d Rather not any introspection lest he find something real, doesn’t waver.

Its an ugly Fight BetWeen Two Broken People. It Only Gets Uglier Once Simone, Looking Gorgeous in Her Custom Ice-Blue Gown, Steps Downstairs to Delive the Final Blow. She’s Made Her Choice. Tan Becoming Peter’s Third “MRS. someone” is better than getting stuck back in buffalo with bruce.
Wen Devon Sees Her Sleek Sister Join Peter’s Side at the gala, she can’t waist Simone would Betray Michaela so Deeply. But Simone’s Ready to use Kiki’s Own Words in Her Defense: “If it doesn’t serve you, let it go.”

Devon Can’t Undersand This Philosophy. Having Let Captain Morgan Know That She Can’t Go Sailing With Him Her Dad’s In Such A Bad Way, She’s Already Decidated That She wants to stay in buffalo, albeit more on her own terms than bruce’s. AFTER ALL, SHE TELLS SIMONE THROUGH TEARS, GOING BACK TO BUFFALO TO TAKE HER SIST WAS The best THING THIS EVER Did. “You didn’t serve me, and i didn’t let you go,” she say, “but now i have to.” Nor much love as these two have for each other, devon the realization they’ll never be on the sun page.

“Why do you sound so dramatic? It”s not like gonna see you,” Simone Says, but she’s crying now, too. They make plans that they know they’ll never kep. They Say they love each other and say good-bye. It’s deeply sad. If noting Else, though, they’re at the least standing firm in choices they’re active MAKING.

Once devon and bruce get on the ferry, who should embark bend but michaela? Devon Offers Her an Olive Branch, or at Least Some Sympathy. “You think my sister’s going to be okay with Him?” She Asks, Looking Back Toward the Cliffs. “No,” Michaela Replies, Too Quickly to be a Lie. But as Women Born with Privilege or Power, They Both Know Why Simone Did What She Did. They can’t blame her for it. They can only hope that she keps her head above the song song as long as she can be before the riptide taxi her out for good.

• Thanks for Reading Along With these recaps! This Show Was a Wild and Sometimes Upsetting Journey, but i enjoyed myself and hope you did, too.

• Quick Round of Applause for Moore, Alcock, and Meghann Fahy, Who Really Did Crush It Throughout.

• There’s a whole other show in seeing this chain of events through the staff’s pov. Now slame are some people who know how to have fun.

• Devon Not Wanting to Cash A $ 10,000 Check is the Least Undersandable Instinct she’s haad this whole time, Becausea what? CASH THAT THING IMMEDIATEly, Dev!

• i don’t beed another season from this show, but i would Pay Good Money to See Ethan’s Reaction to HIS Best Friend Marrying the Ex WHO DROVE HIM Over A Cliff.

• “I don’t know what’s work with me.” “Well … You’re a bitch.” Long Live Sisters! May We Never Stop Giving Each Other Shit.

Its gotta be something in the water. How to explain the plethora of a-list twins on Hollywood Screens Lately?

In the Last Few Months Alone, we’ve had Robert Pattinson, Theo James and the Great Robert de Niro Playing Opposite Each Other on Screen. But now we have by far the most Creatively environmental, culturally layered, artistic bold twin-led cinematic yet-if this sentiments like a lot, get ready for the movie! – With Michael B. Jordan on Double Duty in “Sinners.”

And while the Jordan-Jordan Pairing is Front and Center and Full of Charism, Jordan Himself Wauld Probably the Most Important Pairing is the One BetWene Him and Ryan Coogler. The supremely talented Writer-Director tourns once again to jordan-Star of all four of his previous films-for His first completely original Movie. Both me are firing on all cylinders.

SO what exactly is “Sinners,” Shot on Large-Film Film (Including IMAX 65 mm and Ultra Panavision 70) Befitting the size of its Vision, About? DEPENDS WHICH LATE YOU’RE LOOKING AT.

The Outer Layer is A Story of Two Brothers Coming Home to Mississippi in 1932 to Launch a juke AFTER AFTER TIME ON THE GERMAN FRONT IN WORLD WAR I AND THEN FROM AL CAPONE IN GANGLAND CHICAGO. Peel Away, and it is a story About Music, especally the transportation power of the blues. ITHE’S ALSO ABOUT LOVE: LOVE THAT’S LOST, LOVE THAT’S FOUND, LOVE THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE. And it is about the tenuoussiness of life in the Jim Crow South.

Andn … it turns into a full-on, gore-sphewing, guts-spilling vampire film, one of the scarier you’ll see in a very long time.

It ‘soon clear the only secall small about this movie is the timeline – one day, unless you want to count the afterlife, which is fair. How Coogler Pulls Everything off at Once – and Makes It Cohere, Mostly – is a sight to see.

We Begin 24 Hours in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with Skinny Preacher Boy, AKA Sammie (Exciting 19-Yaar-Old Newcomer Miles Caton), Bloody and Barely Alive, Staggering Into a Cury. His Father, The pastor, urges Him to drop the twisted vestige of a guitar he caries. We see Lightning-Quick Flashbacks to Scenes of Horror-Way Too Quick to Settle in Our Brains. Coogler Will Time HIS. You got somewhere you need to be?

Wen rewind, to one day earlier.

Twin Brothers Smoke and Stack – Jordan and Jordan, Who Frequently Share the Screen, Seamlessly – Have ARRIVED with a trickful of Irish Beer from Chicago. HANDING WADS OF CASH TO A WHITE OWNER FOR AN ALD MILL AND ITS LAND, The Brothers TELL They’ll “Kill any of your Klan Buddies” if they come Around. “The Klan don’t exist no more,” The Oily Character Replies.

The plan is to open that same night. The brothers separate to raly staff, supplys and foods. They Also Need Music. Young Cousin Sammie Turst Out to have a Soulful Voice and Prodigious Talent on the Blues Guitar. They Pick up a Harmonica and Piano Player (The Wonderful Delroy Lindo) by Promising All the Irish Beer He Wants.

We Also Meet the Love Interests. Stack is the slicker of the two Brother, Much Quicker to Smile, If Not Happier, With A Red Brimmed Hat and A Few Gold-Shimmed Teeth. He’s the soon approachehed by his ex, maly (Hailee Steinfeld, Piignant), The Young White Woman he love and left. She’s Angry. It won’t be ’til late that we have learn he was Only trying to keep her safe.

As for Smoke, more somber in a blue cap, he reunites with a soulful medicine woman, with WHOM he’s shared past grief. He convinces Annie – played by wunmi mosak with a serene grace – to come cook at the joint.

The Place opens. The Beer’s Flowing and the Dance Floor Hopping. Sammie and Pearline (Jayme Lawson), A Married Woman Who’s Caught His Fancy, Hook Up. It’s the best night of His Young Life.

And then come the vampires.

Remmick (Jack O’Connell), a spindly and scruffy villain, first show up at a farm couple’s home, their klan hood visible in the back. A Red-Eyed Group Now Numbering Three, The Vampires Head to the Juke Joint for the Bloody Final Act.

It ‘s dooozy, and the less Said the Better. Well – we will say Say spreads only coogler would Think of a lusty group of vampires singing Old Irish folk songs. In any case, the Climactic confrontation is what we’re waking for, and pays off.

But please don’t leave once the credits start rolling; Coogler has more Gifts up his sleeve. His Very Long, Ever-Growing Sleeve.

What Your Political Inclinations, there no denying the urgent timeliness of Joshua Harmon’s Epic Family Drama, “Prayer for the French Republic.” Running Through May 11 at Skokie’s Northlight theater, The Intricate, Three-Hour, Multigenerational Drama Hurtles by On a Razor’s Edge BetWene Tragedy and Comedy, Rage and Serenity, Hope and Despair.

Directed by Jeremy Wechsler (in a Co-Production BetWeen North and theater wit) with ancute for the contextual scope of the Centuries of Jewish History, “Prayer” is Centered on a French Jewish family in Paris date Back Centuries. Set in Paris, The Scenes Fluctuate Between 1944-1946 and 2016-2017. (The Title Comes in the Form of Ancient Prayer Woven into the Dialogue and Recited with Both Reverence and Power.)

As “Prayer” Moves from the Nazi-OCCUPIED FRANCE OF 1944 TO THE RISE OF THE EXTREME-RIGHT HARD FRONT IN 2016, The Large Picture Becomes Clear: Harmon is showing USLY HISTORY CAN ERED, FORGOTTEN AND REPEATED.

The Drama Unfolds in Two Timelines: In 1944 and 1946, we’re with Adolphe (Torrey Hanson) and Irma Salomon (Kathy Scambiatterra), Patriarch and Matrarch of a sprawling family that been in france for generations. Their Family Tree was Once a flourishing Bower, but it is the been stripped. France is Occupied by Nazis. The salomons have no idea what’s Become of their Children, Including Son Lucien and Grandson Pierre (Nathan Becker).

In 2016, we Meet Adolphe and Irma’s Descendants, Marcelle (Janet Ulrich Brooks) and Her Husband, Charles (Rom Barkhordar), Who Are Living in the Family’s Parisian Home with Children, Daniel (Max Stewart) and Elodie (RAE Gray). Marcelle’s Brother Patrick (Larry Grimm) is a Frequent Visitor.

Also in the Household: Molly (Maya Lou Hlava), a distant cousin from America whose openhearted Questions About Jewish Culture, History and Politics Reveal Someone Who Is Naive to the Point of Ignorance But Genuinely Striving to Learn.

AS 2016 Moves INTO 2017, The Family Grows Increasingly Alarmed As Anti -Semitism is on the Rise. Daniel has been assaulted twice. The Hate Speech is Getting Louder and More Frequent.

Ultimately, Charles and Marcelle Face the Same Horrible Dilemma that Faced Irma and Adolphe Over 70 Years Earlier: They Feel Increasingly Under Threat in Their Own Country. Should they uproot their lives and leaves, or hope things get better and stay?

Charles is Adamant, Citting the Millions of Holocaust Victims Who Didn’t Get Out when they Still Could, Certain Their Citizenship Waled Save. The Family Knows Full Well It Didn’t: The Nazis Killed Roughly 11 million People During World War II – Including 6 million Jews. Charles is blunt: “It ‘eather the suitcase or the coffin,” he tells Marcelle.

Wechsler’s Ensemble Knocks the Show Out of the Park, Never More so we can the salomons are in conflict. This is a gloriously loud, Contentious family. They interrupt and talc over one another, shout and slam doors. Yet the ensemble makes it clear that amid all the vitriol, this is a family defined by unconetional love.

Brooks and makeup anchor the cast as the salomon siblings. Brooks Can Convey Worlds in a Single Word, and She’s in Peak Form here. Marcelle is exceptional at excoriating her children, but there never a question that she would would work to anyone who tried to harm. As Marcelle’s Brother Patrick, Grimm is Fantastic, where he’s tone-deaf singing at the treasured family piano or screaming at his sister. Patrick is the narrative link between the two eras on Stage, the breaking of the fourth and addresing the audience directly. Grimm’s Commanding Presence is ideal for a roles that demands a fluid merger between narration and action.

Gray’s Elodie is Also Strong, Particularly in a Blistering, Show-Stopping Monologue on Jewish History. Gray Maintains Breathess Ferocity As Elodie Schools Molly on the Jewish Diaspora, Starting with the 11th Century Massacre of Jews in Rome, Spain, France and Germany, to Hate Crimes Daniel Sufers.

Joe Schermoly’s Inventive Schenic Design is Ideal. The Lights of the Eiffel Tower Glitter Above a set that e encapsulates past and the present: on one side of the stage, the salomons’ home in the 1940s; On the Other, the modern trappings of Charles and Marcelle’s Home. In the middle, a gorgeous piano that is ben an integral part of the family history for Generations.

“Prayer for the French Republic” Offers No Easy Answers. In the end, we hear a rouseing rendition of “La Marseillaise,” France’s National Anthem. Not everybody’s singing. It ‘s portrait of a family filled with pride, resilience, joy and a makeup resignation that the nation celebrated in the anthem is no longer sae for say.

AFTER THE DULL PREDICTILLITY OF LAST WEEK’S EPISODE, WE’RE BACK TO REVELING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW FORM FOR RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars. This Week Pivots to a Wildly Unredictable New Group of Six and An Episode Padden With Personality Than Tire-Spinning and Handing Over Messy Points. And for that, we can Mostly than two queens from the house of brooks.

What is the Opposite of A Recession Indicator? Tina Burner returning in Silver instead of her signature, Oft-maligned flame palette. Tina Not Wearing a Red-Orange-YEwellow Combo Represents Some Kind of Sea Change. Form Drag breed fans, this is as if the price of rent were long or katy perry releass a halfway-decent song again-it’s Jarring and UNEXPECTED, as if all hope not lost. Tina is immediately announcing that we have been should expert the utexpect and that he has listed to the critiques that have dogged her.

Transplant Herself, Colby Kerry, ARRIVES IN A Confesses Look Drencyed in Infinity Stones. Aside from the first queen of the colby dynasty to land on Drag breedKerry’s Legacy is the Warm Care She Provided Her Fellow Competitors More so than Her Performance on the Show. Whereas some Queens are Entering All stars Misjudging what kept say from winning, curry is spot-on about her issue: not showing herself that sun and getting defective at critiques. If this confidence holds, I think Kerry is about to give us an entertaining season.

Meanwhile, have been sitting on these cherry-pie gift certificates for years and i’m ready to cash. Enter Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta, Georgia. For those who might have forgotten her brief season-two run (Couldn’t be!), She immediately announces herself as the mouth of All Stars 10. Her intro montage is basically just a résumé of shade: “Still can fit in Everything wore on my first season… haven’t have to change to change my caareer… some girls have.” What’s undenibly excites about her is her self-anrsensure and unbridled ego (plus a dash of eccentricity), Which standard in Sharp Conttrast to the many-season Queens who immediately thermislves wey show for All stars. Who Cares How Well She DOES WITH ALL THIS Personality? You know you Want the pie!

ALSO IN THE FAMILY NAME IS MISTRESS ISABELLE BROOKS, Drag breed‘s sequined satan with a smile. Like Bosco in the Previous Group, Mistress is the Only Former Finalist of Her Bracket. Her Contentious Personal and Polished Presentation Also Make Her Its Biggest Threat, and She Makes it Clear to the Audience and the Judges that we’ll be getting more of the Same, Both in Performance and Backstage Knife-Twistting. Is she overselling the gag-wasthorthiness of the (Mostly Annoying and Mild) drama she manufactured with Easy Targets? Well, there’s the stall time for her to sow the level of chaos she repeatedly promises.

Now Say What You Will About Lydia Butthole Kolins Returning to Film All stars Before Her Main Series Debut Had Eve Aired, But It ‘Fair to Say Her Quick Turnaround Places Her Firmly in the Bracket’s Underdog Position. Howver, it taxes only a few moments to realize we’ll be getting a sharper lydia this go around, a tighter buttho –Trapdoor opens to a tank of electric eels). She seams Very Clearheaded About the Degree to Which She Previously Missed the Mark, which is more than you can Say About Some All stars Queens this season.

Speaking of Quick Returns, Jorgeous is Back for Her Third Run on Drag breed in four years. Maybe it’s an eagerness to scrub all memory of All stars 9 from my brain, but i’m Willing to give her a fair shot. Sue me, i’m not as sick of Jorgeous as some of the Internet is! From first glance, her typically bubbly nature to have gained some straiight-shooter levelheadedness-i suspect her head is finally in the game, but sura, sura, obviously it Better be on her third (nearly consecutive) Attempt.

For their challenge, ru is throwing an eight ball with the Queens tasked to design a single look that prominently incorporates randomly selected Items. I know it’s foolhardy to get into a semantic debate with rupeul andre charles, but you can’t call’t something a Ball if the Queens are showing only one look! Yet a design challenge is a smart choice to assign this particular group of queens becase that means locking say in the workroom to bicker between assembling garments.

I Think It ‘Safe to Say the Brooks Dynasty Will Be the Eye of the Storm for This Season’s Drama. The Dynamic Between The Brooks Sisters MIB and NPB Reveals How Drag breed Drama has evolved from seasons Old and New-IT’S Nicole’s Take-No-Prisons Verbal Laceraration Vs. Mistress’s Winking Shit-Stirring. Mistress Constantly Has Hheels Turning Looking For Avenues to Rattle the Queens, But Nicole does with a single offhanded comment that cuts to the quick.

Though nicole reserves her harshest jabs for Jorgeous, the real heat is between tina and mistress. Following a tweet In which Mistress Mocked Tina’s Questionable Aesthetics, these two openly, congenially Despise Each Other. UTUALLY WHEN SOCIAL-MEDIA BEEF PENETRATES Drag breedit’s an eye roll, butir sparring is a delight both for its authenticity and its widening pairing of Queens.

Mystress faux-Lightthearted Reads Kept with Laughing, but she may be a bit delusional in how she and inflates past drama to be more than it was. As USUAL, Mistress Thinks She’s Coming for a Booger who is the Easiest Target. This time, she essentially fails, her button-pusher tactics ill-matched to tina’s unflappable confidence. Wen tina tourns it back on her, Mistress Gets Fired up so quickly she look like the One Baiting the Queens and More Like the Most Easily Baited. What does it take for meet to meet her match? Coming for the terminally unbothered! She thinks she’s burning tina, but she’s swimming smoking.

Mistress, Nevertheless, Is the Episode’s Main Character and A Secretly Complex One. Her materials are probably the worst – dowdy Copper tones, animal print – but she prevails and looks beautiful as always. Michelle Criticizes Her for Staying Too Much in Her Lane of Texas High Drag. Mistress’s “I haven’t Changed Becausee of Have Always Been Perfect” is great for a laugh, but a mentality unwilling to evolve (in minor ways) isn’t what gets rewarded on All stars. I think myshes is in a great position to succeed, though that specific COULDINESS COULD BE HER DOWNFALL IF The Judges Get Bored.

Mistress DELIVERING THE Expective Also Helps Underdogs Tina and Lydia Edge past Her. Tina has never looked so refined on Drag breedParticularly Once She Takes off the well-tailored but muddy-brown coat. The Gold and Bronze of Her Separates Also Feel Adjacent to Her Signature Colors, Strongly Elevating Her Aesthetic Rather than Abandoning It. Lydia, Howver, Finally Hits the Mark That Her Previous Constructions Missed, Nailing the So-Wrong-Its-Right intention she has long promised. Her neon-and-leopard 1980s fantasy is aspirationally stupid and chic as fuck.

Of the Lower-Ranked Queens, Idina Menzel Paige Brooks is Swimsuited As Esther Williams of Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jorgeous Order a Lavender-Lemonade Fantasy, and Kerry’s Braided Braidssiere!) Helps DistraCt FROM the Bead Simply Wrapped Around Her Waist. The Secret Trick to Design Challenges is Making Something a Queen Waled Conceivably Wear in the Real World, and That’s Exactly What Beelines Lydia, Tina, and Mistress to Lip-Sync Consideration.

We’ll Forgive Tina for Reverting to Her Old Looks for the Lip-Sync, But Regardless, Lydia Torches Her in “Love Sensation.” AFTER BESTING ARIETTY IN “Boogie Wonderland” in Season 17, Lydia’s Sweet Spot May Just be… Being A Total Freak on A Disco Track? I WOULDN’T EXPECT TINA OR LYDIA TO STEAMROLL AS IRENE DID IN BRACKET ONE, but the episode is a full succESS for bot in resetting their narratives: Lydia silented the skeptics of her speedy return with her best performance yet, and tina tourned.

For now, we’ll say the “pre-aliance” of Miss Flame and the sphincter prove to be the pre-front-runners-in the words of tina, they coulud appliant to spread the front-Russians. But while the previous bracket dully came to what felt like a preordained (if Correct) Conclusion, this one could Go in a number of directions. And a number of shady showdowns…

• Untucked is finally good this season? All it took was makole nicole the main character. She’s Showing Up Mistress with the Shade and Bosco with Quotability. “I do not trust sorcery,” Sheys of the magic 8-Ball Games.

• “Isabella?… Isabella?…” Nicole wasn’t misnaming mistres, she was just casting her delayed for best supporting actress 2024.

• The Criteria for the Challenge is that all eight Items must be prominently featured in the look, but the Judges don’t criticize the Queens who hid in accessories! Isabella literally used to have to stuff a puree like it is tisSue paper in a Gift Bag!

• The Ministry of Cuntfidence, by Kerri Colby – Give This Queen a Branding Challenge, Already!

• Jorgeous jokes that she “came with the budilding” after all these retourns, and this has with imagination she’s the workroom phantom of the opera. Bring Back the Boat Challenge! Honestly (Jorgeous Hands), Box five is to be left emptyHoney!

If it make anyone Feel Better, the $ 55 million Total Box Office was the best for any Super Bowl Weekend SINCE 2020. IT ALSO CONTINES YEAR TO DATE IMPROVEMENT, BESTING 2024 BY CLOSE TO 50 PERCENT.

“Dog Man” (Universal) Repeated AS #1 with $ 13.7 Million But Unexpectly Dropped 62 Percent in Its Second Weekend after A Surpringly Strong Opening. Heart Eyes (Sony) and “Love Hurts” (Universal), Two New Wide Releases, Combined Managed $ 15 million.

The Dreamworks Animated Film Opened About the Same As “The Wild Robot,” with a Similar a Cinemascore. It was unikly that “dog man” Waled Reach the $ 144 million “The Wild Robot” Attained, But Based on Precedent (Similar Films Usually Triple Their Openings), IT SEEMED LIKE IT COULD A $ 100 MILLION GROSSER. With its Steep Drop, $ 85 million More Likely.

The year has seen nine non-franchise studio wide releasses to date, MAT-SIZED OR LOWER BUDGETS, but Only “Dog” and “One of the Days” (Sony) LOOKS $ 50 Million in US/Canada Gross. The Rest Likely End up at $ 25 Million or Lower.

With International Grosses and Non-Theatrical Play, Some May Break Event. But results Needed to be better to improve Current Box Office and Encourage More non-franchise Production.

The Hope for Both “Heart Eyes” (Sony) and “Love Hurts” (universal) was original ideas inventively mixed click. AS Super Bowl Counterprogramming, They Might BENEFIT FROM The UpComing Valentine’s Day and the Presidents Day Four-Day Weekend. Howver, with $ 8.5 million and $ 5.8 million Respective, and “Captain America: Brave New World” (Disney) Along with “Paddington in Peru” (Sony) to Come Next Weekend, Neether Likely to Thrive.

That’s a Real Disappointment. Both films were risk for their studios. “Heart Eyes” (Produced by Spyglass, Acquired by Sony) is a Hybrid Rom-Com/Slasher Movie With Positive Reviews. “Love Hurts” Stars Two Recentting-Actor Oscar Winners with Huy Call and Ariana Debose. IT’S an action comedy that attempted to CAPTURE The Feel of “Knives Out,” But Received Horrendous Reviews.

“Becoming LED Zeppelin” (Sony Pictures Classics) in Only 369 Theaters for $ 2.7 Million, Was Good Enough for Seventh Place. Among Holdovers, Only the Long-Running #4 “Mufasa: The Lion King” (Disney) dropped mess than 40 percent. The Second Weekend of “Companion” (Warner Bros. Discovery) FELL 68 Percent.

Four of the top 10 are animated films and not an oscar nominee is among say. Searchlight’s “A Complete Unknown” is best at #11 with $ 1.2 million.

“PARTENOPE” (A24) from Paolo Sorreino (“A Great Beauty”) Saw a Weak Debut with $ 32,000 in Four New York/Los Angeles. The expanding “I’m Still here” (Sony Pictures Classics) is Doing Much Better, with Over $ 1 Million in 704 Theaters and $ 2.3 Million Total SO FAR. This May Be the Biggest Box-Office Winner of the Awards Season; IT COULD EASLY HAVE BEEN A SUB-$ 1 Million Grosser Despite Its Excellent Reviews.

The Self-Dyscribed “No Other Land” expanded in weeks two to 22 theaters with a decent $ 96,000. Norwegian Cannes Camera d’Or Winner “Armand” (IFC) Grossed $ 23,000, opening in two theater. A reissue of Jean-Luc Godard’s “A Woman is a Woman” Did A Decent $ 11,000 in One New York Location.

Top 10

1. Dog man (Universal) Week 2; Last Weekend #1

$ 13,700,000 (-62%) in 3,887 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $ 3,525; Cumulative: $ 54,102,000

2. Heart Eyes (Sony) New-Cinemascore: b-; Metacritic: 62; Est. Budget: $ 18 million

$ 8,500,000 in 3,102 Theaters; PTA: $ 2,740; Cumulative: $ 8,500,000

3. Love Hurts (Universal) new – cinemascore: c+; Metacritic: 35; Est. Budget: $ 18 million

$ 6,875,000 in 3,055 Theaters; PTA: $ 1,899; Cumulative: $ 6,875,000

4. MUFASA: The Lion King (Disney) Week 8; Last Weekend #3

$ 3,924,000 (-38%) in 2,945 (-235) Theaters; PTA: $ 1,322; Cumulative: $ 235,206,000

5. Companion (WB) Week 2; Last Weekend #2

$ 3,020,000 (-68%) in 3,285 (No Change) Theaters; PTA: $ 919; Cumulative: $ 15,487,000

6. One of say days (Sony) Week 4; Last Weekend #4

$ 3,000,000 (-49%) in 2,051 (-255) Theaters; PTA: $ 1,462; Cumulative: $ 39,372,000

7. Becoming LED Zeppelin (Sony Pictures Classics) New – Metacritic: 66

$ 2,627,000 IN 369 Theaters; PTA: $ 7,119; Cumulative: $ 2,627,000

8. Flight Risk (LionSgate) Week 3; Last Weekend #5

$ 2,600,000 (-52%) in 2,740 (-421) Theaters; PTA: $ 949; Cumulative: $ 25,199,000

9. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount) Week 8; Last Weekend #6; ALSO ON PVOD

$ 1,750,000 (-46%) in 2,061 (-604) Theaters; PTA: $ 849; Cumulative: $ 233,094,000

10. Moana 2 (Disney) Week 11; Last Weekend #7; ALSO ON PVOD

$ 1,544,000 (-46%) in 1,785 (-415) Theaters; PTA: $ 865; Cumulative: $ 456,118,000

Specialized Other/Independent Titles

Films (Limited, Expansions of Limited) Are Lisisen by Week in Release, Starting with Those Opened this Week; After the first three week, only films with grosses over $ 5,000 are listed. Metacritic Scores and Initial Film Festival Recorded be available. AFTER WEEK Two, for theater averages Only Listed for Expanding Films with Under 100 Theater.

Opening (platform)

Partneope (A24) New – Metacritic: 54; Include Festivals: Cannes 2024

$ 31,906 in 4 Theaters; PTA: $ 7,977

Armand (IFC) New – Metacritic: 64; Include Festivals: Cannes 2024

$ 23,000 in 2 Theaters; PTA: $ 11,500

A Woman is a Woman (Rialto) reisso

$ 11,000 in 1 Theater; PTA: $ 11,000

Opening (Wide)

Parasite (Neon) reissue

$ 326,000 in 279 Theaters; PTA: $ 1,689

Holdovers

No other Land (No Distributor) Week 2

$ 96,150 in 22 (+21) Theaters; PTA: $ 4,370; Cumulative: $ 144,613

Presence (Neon) Week 3

$ 305,000 in 586 (-1,153) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 6,662,000

I’m still here (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 4

$ 1,061,000 at 704 (+611) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 2,316,000

The Last Showgirl (Roadside Attractions) Week 5 142

$ 75,590 IN 83 (-59) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 4,603,000

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) Week 7

$ 1,241,000 in 1,305 (-210) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 69,017,000

Nosphere (Focus) Week 7; ALSO ON PVOD

$ 300,000 IN 467 (-516) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 95,385,000

Babygirl (A24) Week 7; ALSO ON PVOD

$ 122,595 IN 152 (-156) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 27,968,000

Brutist (A24) Week 8

$ 914,388 in 1,115 (-497) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 13,727,000

The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 8

$ 33,588 in 52 (-42) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 2,321,000

September 5 (Paramount) Week 8; ALSO ON PVOD

$ 118,000 IN 202 (-196) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 2,642,000

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Neon) Week 10

$ 31,500 in 87 (-163) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 747,807

Flow (Janus/Sideshow) Week 11; Also on vod

$ 96,000 in 161 (No Change) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 4,068,000

A Real Pain (Searchlight) Week 15; Also on vod

$ 21,000 in 35 (-145) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 8,336,000

Conflict (Focus) Week 16; Also on Vod and Streaming

$ 35,000 in 234 (-13) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 32,099,000

Anora (Neon) Week 17; Also on vod

$ 53,700 in 229 (-18) Theaters; Cumulative: $ 15,308,000

An article published in A 1982 Edition of the Research Journal Social Science & Medicine Found that an overwhelming Percentage of Japanese Doctors neglect to share terminal diagnoses with their patients, as they have was usithical to a deatness. That information is only Glancingly Alluded to in Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir,” a diaphhanous coming-any story that only clouded by the Burden of Unbecoming (No Surprise to Anyone Familiar with Hayyawaka’s Dystopian Drama “Plan 75”), but the Principle Beinds the Prince Young Heroine All Summer Long.

Her name is fuki (gifted 11 -ear-op yui suzuki), she lives in a sunny tokyo suburb at some point during the Country’s transitional period in the late 1980s, and she’s almostly subconsciously convinced that people aren’t telling her sweetening. There’s a gap between her and the rest of the world, and it only grows wider after dad (“Shoplifters” Star Lily Frank) is admitted to the Hospital During the finals of his bout with Cancer. It is not as if the girl doesn’t know about death (Her short story “i’d like to be an orphan” has one of the teachers asksing a lot of Questions Answed by the story), but the distant between recognosis and living in its shadow is vast, and fuki is desperate for to do Help Close it for HER.

Of Course, fuki doesn’t know what she doesn’t know, and time Mother utako (isida hikari) – who offten talks as if da n there are able to hear her – has no interest in telling her. “Will we cry Because we have fallen for the dead,” The Girl Asks Herself in a Rare Snippet of Voiceover, “Or Becausee We Feel Sorry for Ourselves?” Her Only Answer is to Not Cry at All; To keep a straight face and list for the Secret Frequency of the Universe for Guidance.

Inspired by an american mentalist and sees on TV, the Ever-imaginative fuki becomes obsessed with telepathy; It starts with guessing what card Someone Might Might Be Thinking of, and Quickly Evolves Into “Hypnotization” a grief-stricna Neighbor into talking about her husband. Late, fuki will neigh at a horsa in an efffort to underestand say, listen to her own voice echo around a tunnel in the hopes of hearing something that is the distilo from her thoughs, and the event a grown a telephone dating in a single Hayakawa’s Continued fascination with the Darkest Parts of the Human Psyche. It ‘s fascination that on full display from the opening moments of “Renoir,” and renders the entity film allergic to the cuteness that on so many coming-stories like it.

Animated by the creation spark that pops and fyszes beened suzuki’s eyes at all Times, Fuki Remains a Compelling Figure Despite Her Refusal to Betry Her Feelings to the Outside World, and “Renoir” leans on the character’ episodes to the Next. Hayakawa is a plaintive storyteller who refuses to indulge in emotional cheats of any kind, and would Rather a scnenetrably oblique than overexplain its purposes. “Renoir” May Not Be Quite As Sterile As “A Low Bar), but the film is reserved Enough for it title-a reference to” the painter of happiness, “whose is glimpsed for a half-second in the background of one shot-to fall a perverse.

ITSIBLE THAT HAYAKAWA MAY HAVE BEEN INSPORTED BY THE WARM LIGHTING FOUND IN SOME OF RENOIR’S WORK, THERE ARE FEW MOMENTS IN WHICH SHELOWS HERE MOVIE TO INDULTE IN THE EFFERVESCENCE OF A TOKYO SUMMER, AND EVEN FEWER IN WHIC equally seismic changes that before you young heroine. Hayakawa’s Script eschews any sweeeping commmentary in favor of a more honest and incidental portrait of growing up – that is to be true to the reality of Fuki’s Experience than Mold It Mold the Poetic forms of Adult Memory.

The Film’s Fuling is Elliptical (Utako’s Maybe Affair With The Counselor at Her Anger Management Is Filtered Through a Child’s Undersanding), its directing unimposing to the point of resilling, and its poinigning more rooted in the SLOWS SNOW SNOW SNOW isolation than it is in the moment when someone finally breaks through it. There are Are a handful of memo -episodes along the way, Such as the Nightmare fuel of fuki’s aphorioned pedophile enCounter, and the much nicer sequence in which she spends a day at the track with her hell, but incidents like only have. SO light as they help broker fuki’s connection to the world beyond her.

AS WAUDED BE THE CASE IN REAL LIFE, TERE’S NO SINGLE INCIDENT THAT explains How Fuki Grows Over the Course of That One Fateful Summer (If One Especialy MeaningFul Gesture Towards The End Helps Her Silent Isolation). But “Renoir” – with it fint traces of sentiment, and complete absence of sentimentality – delicately articulates the Girl’s inner child in a way allows us to feel it expand. Life Can Try to Keep Its Secrets from Her, But It ‘Only a Matter of Time Before Someone As Curious and Deprived As Fuki is Able to Discover I FaLf.

Grade: b-

“Renoir” Premiered in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It is currently seeking us distribution.

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Male escort Says He Could Hear Sean “Diddy” Combs Assauling Cassie

Wann Ventura Didn’t Join Combs Right well he Called for Her OCCAZION, Phillip Testified May 12 That Combs Threw a Liquor Bottle in Her Direction, THEN HERE HAIR AND DRAGGED HER INTO BEDROM. “She was screaming,” Phillip Said, and, from the Next Room, “What I Heard Sounded Like Him Slapping Her.” Phillip Said Heard Combs Say, “‘i tell you to come here, you come here now, not late.’”

Phillip Said he was “terrified” and did not intervene.

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Ventura Came Out of the Room and JUMED INTO Phillip’s Lap, he testified. “She Basically TRIED to convince with that ‘it’s’ ok’ and ‘i’ll be ok,’” Phillip continued. “And i said, ‘it is not ok and you need to get help.’”

“TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO HER THAT IT IN REAL DANGER IF SHE A HIM,” Phillip Said.

Asked by Prosecutor Maureen Comey Why didn’t call the police, phillip testified that he though of combs as “someone with unlimited power, and chances are, if I did i did to the Police, that of Might Still up Ling My Life.”

Fashionable beauty Allegedly stabs Photog with scissors … Nypd Searching for Her

Published May 23, 2025 5:42 AM PDT

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CRIME STOPPERS NYPD

Shutterbugs beware … don’t snap a picture of this fashionable woman, Becausea Police Say and Might Just Stab you in nyc.

The NYPD recently releassed Photos and a video of the Dolled-Up Beauty Walking Along the Street in Manhattan’s West Village.

What would the Cops Say She Did Wrong on the Afternion of May 5?

Well, The Sexy Suspectly Algedly Got Into It With A Lensman Who Accidentally Took a Photo of Her while Snapping General Pictures of the NeighBorhod.

Cops Say she didn’t like that very much, so she first socked Him in the Shoulder, then Pulled Out a Pair of Scisors and Stabbed Him in the Back.

After that, the Woman – Dressed in a Stylish Black Dress, Leather Coat, Black Shades and High Heels – Scurred Down a Flight of Stair, Disappearing Inside A Subway Station

As for the Photog, he Only sufferered minor injuries … and refused medical attention.