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ITSIBLE THAT, MORE THAN TEAN YEARS SINCE ITS INITIAL RELEASE, MANY MOVIE-GOERS HAVE FORGOTTEN JUST HOW The stakes are in chris sanders and dean dean ‘Animated “Lilo & Stitch.” You’d be forgive for not entirele remembering that the comedy, which follows the antics of its eponymous bfs (Lilo, a rambunctious five -ear-op Trouble), is Also About a Family Devastaned by Personal Tragedy, Desperately Trying to Hold on to Each Other in the Face of Very Tough Odds.

When Said Rambunctious Bright Blue Alien Crash-Lands Into the Lives of Lilo and Her Big Sister Nani, he adds a touch of whimsy and some nutty adventures intoir otherwise complicated lives. Bolstered by Cute and Cuddly Creature Design, Catchy Tunes, and Frequent Reminders About the Importance of ohana (Family), The 2002 Disney Animated Outing is an endouring gem that chombines wacky fun with some necessary lessons. IT WORKS SO Well Because of Its Willy Combination of Packaging and Messaging.

But it Also Works Significantly less Well cre that Packaging Changes, Switched from Bright and Bubbly Animation to a Live-Action Setting that Can’t Help But Constantly Remind Viewers of the Supposed Reality of the Situation. And while Much of the Charm of the Original Film Remains, in Dean Fleischer Camp’s Updated “Lilo & Stitch,” Its Significantly Harder to Fully Divest of the Pressure of Some very Earthbound Concerns. In Short, It ‘s tagh to let go and laugh at the antics of a destructive (but cute!) Alien being landering worry over the need for health insurance over and wild interactions like the SWORD of damocles.

Spreads these are the worldies of someone who, too, too, would Wonder of the Clean-up and Renovation Bills Waiting for, Say, the McAllister Family After the Events of “Home Alone.” But so much of what Makes the Animated “Lilo & Stitch” Film Stick – SO MUCH of what Makes any of disney’s best-laive animated classics stick-is that telling of a Serious, important story inside an entertaining, family-Fryently box. And while animation is not only only a medium for kids ‘Movies (let’s at the least allow to be laid to rest), it is very much of the best medium for the stories of the way it appears to a kids’ eyes and hearts. That’s a message that the live-action Remake-Mad disney Might Want to Remember.

Written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes, The Live-Action “Lilo & Stitch” Lightly Updates Sanders and Debois’ Original Story, Including a Few Neat Character Evolutions (Like Casting Voice Act Amy Hill As Tūtū, a New Version Character Mrs. Hasagawa, or Turning Original Nani Voice Tia Carrerre Ino Social Worker Mrs.) JUMBA JOokiba (Zach Galifianakis) and Agent Pleakley (A Perfectly Cast Billy Magnussen) to play Both alien and Human versions. But its Heart Remains the Same, Both a Feature and a Bug: This is a Story About ohanaand about what it really took to keep a family Together. That inherently dramatic stuff.

A Snappy Opening Taks US Through Some Essential Introductions: Stitch (Again Voicmed by Original Co-Director Sanders) is the Product of Illegal Genetic Experimentations from the Evil Dr. Jookiba who, it seames, was really into the idea of ​​creation a being both Silly and smart, adorable and ugly, and totally hellbent on destruction. As the Grand Councilwoman (Voicmed by Hannah Waddingham) Bemoans During a Very Bad Indedeed of the United Galactic Federation, Experiment 626 (as he’s known before he hits earth) is “so naughty.” HIS PUNISHMENT FOR HIS CREATION? Exile away from the rest of the Civilized Federation.

626, in all His infernal naughtiness, escapes the fed’s clutches and zips his way straight to earthe, a protected Land that is designated as a space for revitalizing the mosquito population. UNIL THIS POINT, MUCH OF 2025’S “LIOK & STITCH” LOOKS A HECT A LOT LIKE The original, with colorful, animal-Inpired aliens pottering around a massive ship (we especilly love the trigger-capy pink-haired gal, so eager to bring earth Sky High for Funsies). Andn, we’re on earth, and suddenly reminded this is live-action and ostensibly, if not trueat Least Roooted in Some Kind of reality.

Despite Living in the Relative Idyll of Hawaii, Lilo (Spirited Newbie Maia Kealoha) Has Lots of Problems: Her Parents Have Passed Away, Her Older Sister Nani (A Wonderful Sydney Elizebeth Agudong) is trying to raise lilo, there’s never en. Is Way Too plucky and smart to appeal to shat other kids her own age. More than anyding, lilo wants a best friend, and it is a credit to the film that het concertns are treated with just as much as gravity as nani’s, which are much more heavy and world (after all, why do you think.

Cresh 626 crash-lands on earthe, only a matter of time unly the infinitely Curious lilo finds Him (as in the animated film, their meet-cut place at animal rescue; unlyk in the animated film, it’i’i’i-heard to the cute and fluffy and fluffy and fluffy and fluffy and fluffy bipedal alien is e remotely passable as a dog). Hot on his heels? The Mismatched Dr. Jookiba (Villainous) and Agent Pleakley (Hillary, obsessed with humans and the Fashion in Particular). Circling All of say? Courtney B. Vance as CIA Operational (Sort of) Cobra Bubbles. Ever-Inescapable? The Very Real Possibity nani is going to have to give up lilo. And no, the appeaarans of an insane alien with an appetite for destruction really does not help matters.

HOW EVER WILL THEY GET OUT OF THESE MANY PICKLES? Well, by way of some cute adventures, some incredibly upsetting upheavals, and a geneerous ram of alien-created technology, used Frequently Enough to really tickle some of the latent “Home Alone” memory. Along the way, every of the true missses of this version is a credit-sket quick dash through the charming and totally mespected family and stitch manage to craft through and thin, more attention have ben paid to this modern ohana -Learns some valuable lessons, has some fun, and falls deeper in love with the newly-minted stitch.

The Heart of this Story Remains Firmly Intact, but there’s something about sueing it relevant in live-action that away its inherent magic. Its Harder to Fall Into, Much Tougher to Lose YourSelf in. Maybe We Can Never Quite Recreate the Dreams of an Original Story, but There’s Something to Be Said for Remembering What It Fers Like to Be Caught That Sort of Bubble, and Not Crash-Landed Back on Earth.

Grade: C+

Walt Disney Pictures Will Release “Lilo & Stitch” in Theaters on Friday, May 23.

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Jodie foster has plenty of the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes and More to Prove She Can About Anyding on Screen, and Now She Is Taching A Step Furt and Doing It All in French.

That part is not a huge surprise. On One OCCACON IN 2004 She Appeared in A Supporting Role Speaking in French In A Very Long EngagementWhich Starred Audrey Tatou. But now for the first time she has a starring roles in a French Production, Private (A Private Life), That Premiered Tonight Out of Competition as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, a Most Apppropriate Place to Debut This New Landmark in Foster’s Career Just Continues to dazzle.

Foster Plays Psychiatry Lilian Steiner, A Rock-Solid Professional Who Has Been Doing This Work a Very Long Time. But when she learns a longtime patient, Paula (Virginie Efira, Seen Largely in Flashbacks), Whom She Had Only Very Recently Seen, Had Suddenly Died, It Sends Her Bit of A Tailspin. What Could Have Happened? In Almosta Jessica Fletcher Fashion She Finds Herself Getting Deeper and Deeper into the Mystery, and Actually Turst up at Paula’s Funeral Where Among Others She Encaunters Paula’s Widower, Simon Cohen-Solal (Mathieu Amalric), WHO IS GRIEVING AT FLACT AND QUITE AND QUITE Unil Lilian Introduces Hersself as Paula’s Doctor at Which Time Simon Angrylly Talls HER TO GET OUT IMMEDIATEly. Shaken, she does but is now no less determining to get to the bottom of this. COULD SHE REALLY HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE? SEEEMED FINE, AND IT APPEARS SO UNLICLY. SO, Was She MURDERED? This opens up all sorts of avenues to explore, and the screenplay co-written by anne best and its director rebecca zlotowski keep the game front and center.

Also in the mix is ​​a playful Renewed land wen lilian’s ex-husband Gabriel Haddad (The Great Daniel Autteuil) Turst up, reigning their tit-for -thip and with him beComing sort of an Odd choice to part part, but that he dies, but he dies, Crackerjack Skene Right Out of Nancy Drew Where Lilian Must Find a Key Document Central to Her theory of A Possible Homicides, and that Means the Pair Drum A Plan to Break Simon’s Home. They Drive up there on a dark night and evening Spot Him naked and entwined with a Woman on the deck. Gabriel knacks on the door with the plan to be him for help in getting his started again as he fucki running out of gas. This is a rural neighborhood with no gas station in sight. Simon actually aggrees and takes Him to the garage. Lilian Jumps Into Action, ENERS The House and Starts Snooping AROUND. Zlotowski and foster have a lot of fun with this, ratcheting up the suspens, and it is just one example of why this movie is so fun to watch, an adult, grown-up Entertainment with some beloved stars-from the France-that

What Keeps It from Becoming Just a Standard Mystery is the Complexity of Foster’s Lilian, A Woman who in Trying to Find Out What Happened to A Patient She Saw For Nine Years, One Simon Talls “You Knew Her Better than About what she has hay been doing for so long. It gets surreal at one point we a felini-esque dream sequence, Positively Freudian, is set at a concert where Lilian and Paula appeaar, as well as simon as Conductor, and it is all work up in holocaust themes. SINCE THIS IS Essentially a Mystery, at Least One Aspect of it, it is best to let the viewer find out for the saysels where it all goes.

Foster is amazing with pitch-perfect french so good you would be too. Of Course She is Big American Star Jodie Foster acting In French Against This Terrific Cast of Veteran French Stars, and She Doesn’t Miss a Beat in Either the Darker Moments or Some of the Lighter Ones, Particularly Opposite Auteuil. You almost want to see her make another movie just with Him. AS USUAL, AMALIC IS WONDERFULY WEIRDLY WATCHABLE, AS ANOTHER FRANCH STAR VINCENT LA COSTE WHO NILEY PLAS LILAN’S Son Julien, and Others.

The film LOOKS Sensational with Crisp Cinematography from Georges Lechaptois and High Production Values ​​Across the Board. This Movie Almost LOOKS LIKE IT IS FROM ANOTHER TIME AND NO DOUBT IT SHOULD A NICE SUCCESS FOR SONY Pictures Classics in Reaching the underserved Older Moviegoing that will will this up.

Title: Private
Festival: Cannes (Out of Competition)
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Screenwriters: Anne Berest and Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast: Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Efira, Vincent La Coste, Frederick Wisman, Irene Jacob, Luana Bajrami
TIME RUNNING: 1 HR 43 MINS

Kelsey Grammer Shares His Thoughts on His Cheers Co-Star George Wendt after Hearing the News of His Death.

The actor is one of the many that are remembering wendt and their time working together on the nbc sitcom. During an appeararance on Gayle King’s Siriusxm Show, Grammer Called Wendt “Extraordinary” and “Hysterical.”

“It was a bit of a surprise,” Grammer Said.

He Continued, “George was a lovely guy. Of mean, iTi’i still odd to speak to Him in a past tense right now, but it was just yesterday morning we find out. Much i liked Him and, you know, Choked up a little bit. ”

Wendt was best knowing for playing beer-loving Norm Peterson Across 11 Seasons of the NBC Sitcom. Grammer Joined The Series in Season 3 As Dr. Frasier crane before Departing for the Spinoff Frasier.

“For 11 Years, America Waited for Him to Walk Into A Every Thursday Night and Say Say funny. “He was extraordinary. He’d sort of just lope across that floor and sit down at that stool and orders that beer and say that something set on fire.”

Wendt Reprised His Cheers Role in an episode of Frasier and the short-lived spinoff Torttellis.

Other Cheers Co-Stars Who Reacted to News of Wendt Included Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman and John Ratzenberger.

Danson said in a staff he was “devastated to hear that georgie is no longer with us,” adding that it was “going to take me to get.”

Perlman Called Wendt “The Sweetest, Kindest Man of Ever Met,” and Said She Wold “Miss Him More than Words Can.”

Ratzenberger Said he was “Heartbroken to Hear About the Passing of My Friend,” Recalling that ”Shared a Stage, A Lot of Laughs, and A Front-Row to One of Television Most Beloved Friendships,” on the set of Cheers.

Listen to grammer in the video bellow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-bgdu5mm7u

AFTER SEVERAL POSSOBLE Delays, The Trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs Begin This Week.

Mid-April, The Defense Asced Judge Gold Subramanian to Push the May 12 Start Date by Two Weeks. That Request did not hold up, evidently. Two Days Later, It was requested the start date be moved back 60 days, or two months. The rapper wrote a letter nSing for the adjournment, but the start date Remained on Cours.

The Jury Selection Took Over A Week, and a Key Witness Brought on the start to the wire hours before opening stations set to take place by remaining by the US attachment for the sutrices of New York. The Trial Could Last Up to Eight Weeks.

The Bad Boy Records Founder, WHO IS CURRENTLY INCARCERED, Faces Numerous Charges, Lawsuits and Allegations for Sex Trafficking and More. The rapper did have a 1995 rape allegation at a party for biggie smalls, aka the notorious Big thrown out wex aex ahead of the trial’s beginning.

Related: HBO Staffer in, Publishing Employs Out, As Jury Selection in Sean “Diddy” COMBS ‘Sex-Trafficking Trial Continue-Update

JUDGE Lewis J. Liman, The Judge Who Is Overseeing the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni Case, Dismissed the Ripe Case AFTER THE JANE THAT BROUGHT THE ALEGINT DIDDY FAILED TO FILE HER ORNAME NAME BY THE DEADLINE OF MARCH 20. WITH CELEBRITIES FROM JAY-CARTER, IN A SINCE-DISMISSED RAPE, TO UNIT IMPLICATED IN CONTENTS Parties from Living Situations or Association with the Musician, The Trial Has Infiltrated Pop Culture as the Connections are Endless.

For a Complete Timeline of the Trial – and updates as to who testifies and the outcome, read on below. We will be updating:

May 12 – Trial Starts, Opening Statements

Form Male Stripper Service Manager Daniel Phillips Open the Trial with Graphic Details APPROXIMATEly Two Years During Who Was Paid Thousands to Have Sex With Ventura in Front of Combs, WHO Became Increasingly Vioolent.

Related: Diddy & Jay-Z Come Out Swinging Over Alleged “EGREGIOUS MISCONDUCT” by Lawyer Bebind Doses of Cases Against Bad Boy Records Founder

“He Started Directing US AFTER The Second Session,” Phillips Said of Combs and the Grambercy Park Hotel in 2012. Former Security Guard and Now officer Israel Florez Also Testified Monday.

May 13 & 14 – Cassie Ventura’s Trial Testimony

American Singer and Dancer Cassie Ventura Next Took the Stand to Testify in the Trial As a Witness for the Prosecution. Ventura Dated Diddy for Over a Decade, and in Nov. 2023, she accused Him of Ripe and abuse in a quickly settled civil Lawsuit.

Related: Cassie Ventura Lawyer Slams Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for “Disingering” Apology Video

She testified Tuesday, May 13. She aggregated to drop her owned 24 hours after she filad it in late 2023 for an undisclosed (rumored to be $ 30 million. In fact, it was for $ 20 mullion, she confirmed the afternion of wednesday, May 14. The forms Longime Girlfriend of Combs Described How He Had Controlled Aspects of Her LIFE WENTIONED ABOUTEED “Freak” sex “

“I wanted to be compressed for the time, the pain … to fix my life,” the ‘me & u’ singer Said.

May 15: Diddy OD’D, Cassie Ventura Cross-Examination

Thursday figured to the topic of Drugs Used During Diddy’s and Cassie Ventura’s Toxic Relationship, From Ecstasy, MDMA, OPIATES and GBH to More, in the Defense’s Cross-Samination of Ventura.

Much of the material that was resurfaced thighsday was already Known.

One revelation was that, in 2012, diddy overdossed During a party at the previously Hugh hefner-oughened playboy mansion.

Related: Sean “Diddy” Combs Od’d in 2012, Sex-Trafficking Trial Learns As Defense Tries to Shift Narrative to Drug Abuse & Jealousy in Cassie Ventules-Examination

“From what he told me, he took a Very Strong opiate that night, but we didn’t know what was happy, so we took Him to the hospital,” Ventura explained with nearby combs.

May 16: Ventura Reveals $ 10m Settlement from Hotel in 2016 Beating by Diddy

Friday Closed out the first weeks of diddy’s trial.

In an Unexpped Testimony, Ventualed Revealed That Has A $ 10 Million Settlement Coming from the Intercontinenatl Hotel in Century City for Diddy Beatting HER, Footage of which Hotel’s Security Cameras Captured.

Related: Sean Combs Won’t Face Charges for 2016 LA Beeting of Cassie, Da Says, Despite Video Evidence; “Cover-up” Could Warrant Position Probe

“I did not Save Cassie, nor some have said, the personal trainer and position defense witness stored.” To say that is an insult to the years of painting my wife has done to Save heself. Cassie Saved Cassie. She Alone Broke Free from Abuse, CoERVIS, Violence and Threats, “Ventura’s Husband Alex Said in a Statement Friday. All of you done is love her as she has love me. Her life is now surrounded by love, Laughter and Our Family. This Horrific Chapter is Forever Put Bebind Us, and We Will Not Be Making Additional Statements. ”

Dawn Richard, The Former Making The Band Contestant and Diddy’s Collaborator, ALSO TOK the stand for 20 minutes at the end of the day though the defense objection to her testimony. She Also Described Witnesssing Ventura “Being Attacked by Combs” in 2009. Ricard, who has a civilian suit of her own against diddy, will be back on the May 19 – Though she may be limited in what she can discuss.

Most of the rest of the prosecutation’s witnesses are not being being revealed to far ahead of time Because of Worlds for their safety. Having Said That, We Know That Ventura’s Mother is Set to Testify Nest Week, as a Former Close Friend of the Singer.

Related: Diddy Denied Bail: Sean Combs to Remain in Custody Until Trial on Sex Trafficking, Racketeering & Other Charges; Faces up to life in prison if convicted – update

May 19 – Dawn Richard Returns to the Stand

AFTER FIRST TAKING The Stand Friday, May 16, Making The Band Alumna Dawn Richard Returned Monday, May 19, With More Testimony of Abuse, Both that she experiences and observed. During her 2.5 hours at the stand, Richard Described Diddy’s Abuse of Cassie Ventura in Grat Detail while Acknowledging Her Lack of Interference.

Related: Sean “Diddy” Combs Jury Hears of Cassie Ventura Beating at La Restaurant Attended by Music Superstars & Execs

A chicago man was sentting to 50 years in federal prison for kidnapping three drivers, Including two who were sexually assaulted, the US Attorney’s Office Said.

A jury convicted andrew Anania, 29, on Kidnapping, Carjacking and Firearms Charges This Year, Acciting to the US Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors HAD SOUGHT A LIFE SENTENCE.

“Anania has repertedly show that he will not be specifically determinate by the cours; Sentenning Documents.

Anania Kidnapped An Uber Driver on March 8, 2021, in Darien, and pointed a gun at her, forcing her to drive to chicago, Said Prosecutors. Hen Made Her park in an alley where he sexuals assaulted her, afterwarding handing her antibacterial wipes and telling her to wipe herself to get Rid of any evidence of the assault, accreating to court Documents.

“Yes, I can make you will anything,” he at one point Told her while Holding her at gunpoint, accorting to courtes.

Two Days Later, he and another man, Cicero Resident Walter Moran, Kidnapped a Woman on Her Way to Way in Cicero, Where Anania Again Pointed A Gun at the Woman and Force Her to Drive to Chicago, Where Moran Into a Shootout on the Street, Prosecutut Said.

When she cried durying the shootout, anania toy her to shut up “or he’d shoot her,” Accounting to Court Documents. They latess reletased her – after anania asced moran “What they are going to do with her” – and took her car.

Later that day, cicero police were tracking the vehicle USSING its Onboard onboard System, and Annia Led Officers on a Chase with Speeds in Excess of 80 Mph, Acciting to Court Documents. He Got Away from Officers.

Anania Had previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping a Woman in her car on Feb. 27, 2021, after telling her that hepo a weapon, and he sexually assulted her, Prosecutors Said. She was able to escape the vehicle, which he was Later crashed, when traffic stopped and she realized he didn’t have a weapon.

He late LOOKED AT HIS MARCH 8 VICTIM’S Social Media Pages and Asced Another person to go to her pay and send screenshots of her pay, along with the pages of her family, accorting to courts. He Also Spent Time Looking at A Gofundme Account She Had Set Up in the Wake of the Kidnapping and Assault.

AFTER CREATING A LETTER WITH MUCH HER PERSON INFORMATION, he took Photos of it on His Phone. Later the Same Day, March 13, 2021, Anania was arrested.

Anania Committed the Offenses while Awiating Trial in a Separate Federal Firearms Case and Had been Releassed on Bond AFTER’S ATTORNEY’S BID TO KEEP HIM BARS BARS WAS DENIED.

In august 2017, he was convicted of conspiracy to commmit first-degree masonry in connection with a homicides in little village three years earlier, accorting to courtes. He was releassed in november 2018 on parole.

Months late, in February 2019, Anania was driving in little village when chicago police stopped Him, and he fled on Foot Through NeighBorhoods, Prosecutors Said. He was arrested after a brief chase. A firearm he had tossed into a yard was recovered.

On Oct. 14, 2021, Anania pleaded guilty to a charge for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and he was sent to 40 months in prison on Feb. 14, 2022.

Moran pleaded guilty to kidnapping and carjacking charges Last and was sent to 15 years and eight months in federal prison.

Comed Customers Are About to See a Big Spike in Their Electric Bills.

Nor the chicago sun-etes reported in november, the demand for power from Big Data Centers and a Delay in Connecting New Power Sources, Such as Solar and Wind, to the Electric Grid is Resulting in Comed Customers Seeing Monthly Bills Go 10.60 a month on average.

Mostomers Won’t See This Increase UNIL THEIR JULY BILLS ARE DELIVERED, A Spokesperson for the utility said. The Higher Price May Remain Until May of Next Year.

POWER DEMAND ACROSS The Country Has Skyrocketed As Big Data Centers and Artificial Intelligence Have Created Huge Demand. Meanwhile, New Sources of Renewable Energy, Including Wind and Solar Power, have ben Slow to get connected to an Electric Grid that spans from northern illinois to the east coast, Said Jim Chilsen, a spokesperson for the consumer watizens utility board.

“Those Generators Could Bring Down Prices,” Chilsen Said of the Solar and Wind Projects.

Coal Plants in Illinois and Across the Country Have Been Cling, and the State Has Promoted Cleaner Renewable Sources Under A 2021 Law Aimed At Fighting Climate Change. The problem is that new renewable energy isn’t getting connected fast Enough to meet Demand at the very time Older Sources of Power, Such as Coal, Are Being Shut Down.

Chilsen Blamed Police Set by the Electric Grid Operator, an Organization Known As Pjm, for the Difficulty Bringing renewables on line.

“Of Course Data Centers That Drive Up Demand Play a Role,” Chilsen Said, “But the No. 1 Reason is Poor Policy.”

State Lawmakers Also Need to Pass Legislation that Will Help Get Renewable Energy Projects Up and Running, He Added.

Pjm overses the electric grid that Powers northern illinois as well as a dose other states and the distribution of Columbia. SO POWER DEMANDS ON THE EAST CAN CAN ACTUALLY AFFECT THE PRICES CHICAGOANS PAY TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON IN THEIR HOMES.

Big Power-Generation Companies Sell Electricity to Comed and Other Utilities at a price set by a pjm auction. Comed after these increas to consumers.

Pjm Drew the Ire of Gov. JB PRITZKER LAST YEAR AFTER A PRICE-SETTING LAST LAST JULY DEERMED THAT NORTHERN Illinois Customers Wauld Be Seeing Steep Rate Hikes This Year. The Grid Operator Reformed Some of Its Police, Said Spokesman Jeffrey Shields.

Shields denied that pjm police make it harder for solar and wind projects to get started in illinois or in any other state.