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Foo Fighters have parted ways with their drummer, josh freese, the musician said on social media.

Freese tok to instagram to share that he was not longer be performing with the band dave grohl, and he was not given a clear explanation.

“The Foo Fighters Called with Monday Night to Let Me Know They Decide ‘To Go In A Different Direction with their Drummer.’ No Reason was Given, ”Freese shared.

Despite Being Removed, Frese Says He “Enjoyed the past Two Years” with the band, “Both on and off Stage,” Supporting the Group with “What They Feel is” for say.

“In my 40 years of drumming professionally, i’ve never been let go from a band,” he continued. “SOHILE I’M NOT AGRY-JUST A BIT SHOCKED AND DISAPPOINTED. But as not of you know i’ve always workhed freelance and bounced between so, i’m fine.”

Freese has been a member of the punk rock band the vandals Since 1989 and a member of the new Wave Band Devo Since 1996. The drummer has also worked with hard rock bands n ‘roses and alternative rock a perfect circle.

Other bands that freese has worked with include the damning well, Black Light Burns, Nine Inch Nails, and Sublime with Rome.

Foo Fighters Beloved Drummer Taylor Hawkins Died in March 2022 As the Band Toured South America. Freesee joined the band in september of that sunlight for tributes in Hawkins at Wembley Stadium in London and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Freese Wold Officelly Join the Band in 2023.

Current Members of the Foo Fighters Band Include Grohl on Lead Vocals and Guitar, Pat Smear (Guitar), Chris Shiflett (Guitar and Backing), Nate Mendel (Bass), and Rami Jaffee (Keyboards and Piano).

The Foo Fighters Are Not Currently Touring and their Website Notes that they have next live appearans is scheduled for october 4 Where they will perform at the formula 1 in the singapore grand prix.

Read Freesi’s StatEment Below.

A Madison, Wisconsin, Man Has Been Charged in A Fatal February Shooting in Rogers Park, Acciting to Chicago Police.

Antwon Jackson, 31, was arrested thighsday and is charged with first-degree waller and two felony couns of a controlled substance, policy Said. He is in court for a detection Hearing Sunday.

Around 12:20 am Monday, Jakobe E. Barker, 28, was in a Vehicle in the 1300 Block of West Avenue on Feb. 18When policy allee he was shot in the show and torso by Jackson, Police Said.

Barker was taken to st. Francis Hospital in Evanston Where He Was Pronounced Dead at 5:20 AM, Accounting to the Cook County Medical Examine’s Office.

Chicago’s Planning Chief, Ciere BoatrIn, Says Sterling Bay’s Plan to Build 7 Million Square Feet of Office Space, “The Equivalent of Two Willis Towers,” Is No Longer Feasible at A “Tough TAGH Globally” for New Construction.

President Donald Trump Signed Three Executive Orders Addressing Immigration Enforcement Monday Night, Including Targeting Officials Who Uphold Sanctuary City Laws and Boosting Access to the Military for State and Local Law Enforcement.

Observes Said it’s the latest in a series of actions demonstrating how the administration “has in for” Sanctuary CITIES LIKE CHICAGO.

One of the Orers Signed by Trump Orders State and Federal Officials to Publish Lists of Jurisdictions Offen Reference to As Sanctuary Cities that limit cooperation with federal offices’ EFFORTS to arrest immigrants in the country illegally.

A Second Order Signed by Trump Calls for Increasing Access to Excess Military for State and Local Law Enforcement. IT ALSO Calls for Bolstering Legal Support for Officers ACCUSED OF WONGDOING CARRYING OUT THEIR OFFICAL DUTIES.

Trump Also Directed the Office of Attorney General Pam bond to set up a system that is to do legal aid and financial protection to law enforcement officers “WHO Unjustly Incur Expensses and Liabilities for the Performance of the Performance of the Performance of therficial Duties to enforce the Law.”

A Third Order Reinforces an Existing Federal Law Requiring English-Language Proficiency as a Requirement for Commercial Motor Drivers.

The Executive Orders Are the Latest Effort to Crack Down on Immigration and Target Sanctuary Cities – and Chicago – by the Trump Administration.

“This administration already has it in for us,” Said Fred Tsao, Senior Policy Counsel at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

The Executive Order to Make a List of All the Sanctanty CITIES DON’T Comply with Federal Immigration Laws Doesn’t Do Anynding New, Tsao Said.

“So far as putting a list of together, we know that the state of illinois, Cook County and the City of Chicago Are Already on that list. How we know that? Because the Justice Department is already US Our Welcoming Police,” He Said.

This isn’t the first time the trump administration has gone after chicago for its sanarmy police, he added.

“The First Trump Administration Also Went After the City of Chicago by Trying to Take Away Federal Grant Funding That Was Issured Through the Justice Department,” He Said. “The City of Chicago Sued, and the City of Chicago Won.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson wasn’t immediately available for the commut Trump’s Latest Orders. Earlier this month, the Mayor Took his Running Feud with the President to another level we characterized Trump’s Threats to withhold Billions in Federal Funding Sanctanty as “Terrorism.”

“Trying to force your will to break the Spirit of Working People in Order to Have a Conversation – That’s Terrorism. And We’re Not Going to Negotiate with Terrorists,” Johnson Said.

Trump’s Executive Orders Are the Latest in a Series of Shots at the City that Has Long Been One of HIS POLITICAL PUNDCHING BAGS.

Before Trump’s inauguration, Border Czar Tom Homan Warned Johnson to “Come to the Table or Get of the Way” of Mass Deportations Where Chicago Be “Ground Zero.”

In March, Johnson, Along With Mayors of Other Sancery Cities-Michelle Wu of Boston, Mike Johnston of Denver and Eric Adams of New York-Were Grilled by Conservative Lawmakers in A High-Stake Congression.

Chicago has been a Sanctuary City Since March 1985, Via an Executive Order from Mayor Harold Washington That Has Sink Passed As an Ordinance.

The City’s Sanctanty City Status Does Not Block Federal Agents from Lawfully Carrying Out Their Jobs. The Ordinance Calls for the City to Not Cooperate with Immigration Officials.

Contribing: Hernandez Dorothy, AP

If you were watching any Movie trailers or tv Spots in the Run-up to the release of the original Lilo & Stitch In 2002, you probably Remember the ads for the movie. At the time, Walt Disney Pictures, Still Basking in the Residual Glow of ITS 1990s Renaissance, was seen as a historic institution that treated it Catalogue with great reverence. But the ads for Lilo & Stitch Blew raspberries in the face of all that tradition, with the alien experiment stitch disruption scens from some of the Disney’s Biggest Hits: Wrecking a chandelier During The Central Dance Sequence in Beauty & The Beast and pissing off Belle; Surfing A Wave Straight Into The Little Mermaid‘s Ariel and knacking her off her rock; Sidling Up to Aladdin and Princess Jasmine’s Flying Carpet in a spaceship, honking his horn, and stealing Jasmine Away; Replacing Baby Simba In the Majestic “Circle of Life” opening to The Lion King. These ads – Presentted as teasers, TV Spots, and a theatrical trailer that seamed to begin as A Very Serious Minded Tribet to Disney’s Great History – Served as a delightful Introduction to a character that to get to be Become one of the Studio’s Most Popular.

This sort of irreverence was new for the disney marketing behemoth, and the idea for the ads came from the filmmakers. When i interview Him for My Oral History of Lilo & Stitch Several Years Ago, Director Chris Sanders Told with About How This Campaign Emerged. “We had had received some of the Early Concepts for Marketing the Film,” he recalled. “And we were all all sitting around and i med out loud, ‘isn’t it weird to say from the release of this movie onwards, wenever disney does a lineup of their characters, lilo and stitch are going to be in that lineup? That sparked an idea. “Woldn’t it be funny if we have haad a tv how you just ran the start of Lion Kingand instead of babe Simba Being Held Up, Its Stitch? ” Sanders and His Directing Partner Dean Deblois Ran the Idea by Thomas Schumacher, President of Walt Disney Feature Animation (and One of the Film’s Great Champions), WHO TOLD I NEEDED TO PITCH IT TO THE MARKETING PEOPLE.

“As a director, you don’t normally get to this part of the process,” Sanders Said. “You have People from marketing that will this for a living.” The Big Marketing MEETING WOULD BE PREPEDED Over by Dick Cook, Who Became Disney Chairman in Early 2002. Sanders Remembered Running into One Marketing Executive before and Getting “The Vibe that and Super Stokeed That We Were.” But the pitch Got a Big Laugh at the Meeting, and it prompted Roy E. Disney, Chairman of the Animation Department and A Longime Company Board Member (and Walt’s nephew), to mase stitch should tourn up in oter movies as well for the ad.

The Concept, Sanders Said, Had a Universal Appeal, Especialy Given the Precarious Persion the Studio Found in at the time, with several of its Major releasa disappoint at the Box Office, all while animation studios like pixar and dreamworks were scoring hits. “Maybe you thught that disney films are sort of corn or what is aging out of it. TV on the Other Room and You Hear the Song From Beauty and the Beast or the opening of Lion Kingyou’re going to run in to see what the heck it is. And you’re going to be surpassed to see it disrupted by this little guy and you will be intrigued. ”

To use as reference points in directing and recording these ads, the filmmakers had to recall the original materials for these scens from the disney archives. “I Remember they Dropped off The Lion King. And of Course, that film is sacred. They were were really Not Happy About Leaving this Stuff with us, ”Sanders Said.” I Said, ‘Well, I WORKED ON Lion King. It’s’ safe with me. If there is a coffee stain on this stuff, it might have originally been my coffee stain! ‘”

For the recording sessions, they brought in some of the original actors from the films, who seamed somewhat puzzled by the concept. “They were all professional and nice, but i don’t think any of the actors are happy about what we were we doing,” he Says, “Because they field Those characters to a Large degree, so this stuff is really imported to say. For Aladdin, I Remember the Guy Who Did the Voice for That Came in, and We Pitched the Who Idea to Him. And there was a pause, and he said, ‘so she leaves with Him?!? ‘ And we were like, ‘yeah, but it didn’t really happy, it’s just an ad!’ He didn’t seem too happy. ”

“The funniest one to me was recording paige o’hara, for the Beauty and the Beast Skene, “Sanders Said.” She was in New York, so we recorded her remotely, and we were just on a speakerphone. That got Strange Becuse She Sounds Just Like Belle. ” In the ad, stitch ruins the Big Dance Between Bell and the Beast by Crashing a Chandelier Into The Center of the Great Hall, Prompting Belle to Storm off, Saying, “I’ll be in My Room!” Recalled Sanders, “Anyway, We Pitched this Thing and THEN THERE WAS SILEGE. And she said, ‘so i’m mad at Him?’ ‘Yes. Well, No, You’re JUST DISAPPOINTED. ‘ SO SHE DID The Recording and Said, ‘I’ll Be in My Room.’ And we were like, ‘i think you’re more disappointed than that.’ But she kept on the back with this really upbeat, Happy delivery. And we kept Saying, ‘No, You’re Just More Disappointed.’ Finally, We Said, ‘Maybe Try Being a Little Mad.’ And then it hit it. ”

The Commercials for Lilo & Stitch Really did estabish a new tone for marketing disney movies, tearing to the studio a bit of the irreverence that pixar and dreamblyks profitably mined in the preceding years. But Sanders Said the Ads Also Helped Preserve the Movie’s Mystery. “Marketing wants to take the best moments in the film and puts say in commercials so that People will go. ‘Yeah, of saw Everything in the trailer.

Disney’s Marketing Briefly TRIED SIMILAR SIMilar with the New Lilo & Stitch. A poster and one teaser Featured a riff on the 2019 version The Lion Kingand in another teaser, stitch destroyed a Sand version of the Iconic Disney Castle. They Also Created Some Posters Refrensing Other Remakes of Disney Classics Like Snow White, Aladdinand Cinderellabut Little Else. Maybe IT’S BECAUS BINGING BACK-ACTION ACTORS AFTER APTERED IN A MOVIE IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN BINGING BACK VOICE ACTORS. Maybe IT’S Because… Those New Versions of Aladdin (2019) and Beauty and the Beast (2017), for all the Money they made, haven’t endured the way the animated versions did. Or Maybe ITEMUSE DISNEY SEEMS More Reverential About Its Catalogue than it was Back in the 1990s. (Look no storher than… its dutupul re-creation of Lilo & Stitch.)

None of this can Change the fact that, once upon a time, Lilo & Stitch was one of the Strangest, Most Wonderful Additions to the Canon. Eve Sanders, after all these years, can’t quite Believe it. “It was so strange to me, Becuse these are characters that inventory. Beauty and the beast are characters that exist in literature. Lilo and stitch didn’t exist before we came. It still delights with,” he Said. “WENEVER I WAUDED Go to Disneyland, there was a lilo parking area. I was stare at that sign Becusee i’m Like, I can’t belies i’m a parking area. For some reason, that was where it really got me. I created something that aa parking area. That doesn’t happy all the time. ”

A DATA BREACH AT LORETTO HOSPITAL May have exposed the Personal Information of More than 500 People.

Loretto Hospital, at 645 S. Central Ave., in Austin Began an Investigation after I Became Aware of “Suspicious Activity Involving Our Computer Network. The Investigation Found that an “Unknown Act” Had Breached Its Network Between Jan. 17 and Feb. 1 and Copied Files, Accounting to a Notice on the Hospital’s Website.

The Personal Information of More than 500 People was ACCESSED, The US Department of Health and Human Services Said.

Additionally, The Investigation Found that Certain Data That Was Loaded Into The Electronic Medical Record System on Feb. 2 and Feb. 3, was not saved.

“We worked diligently to restore and Capture as Much Data and Patient records as Possible During This Downtime, but Some Records May Been Recovered or Fully Recreated,” The Hospital Wrote in the Notice.

Loretto Said it was revolutionwing the files and would notify is affected by the break.

Anyone with the Questions on the incident should Contact [email protected].

“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.