There’s no such thing as the perfect crime and this is doubly true in the movies. The Australian thriller Brothers’ Nest is built around a seemingly perfect criminal plot that turns out to be spectacularly imperfect once a rogue element or two enter the equation. You’ve seen this set-up before and you’ve seen it before […]
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N. Korea vows ‘merciless blow with nuclear hammer’ if US attempts to topple Kim
Responding to CIA chief Mike Pompeo’s remark last week that North Koreans would be better off without Kim Jong-un, Pyongyang warned it would not hesitate to launch a nuclear strike at “the heart of the US” if Washington ventures to remove him. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, Pompeo argued that “from the […]
Comedy Central’s ‘Review’ is a Merciless Indictment of Capitalism
The second season finale of Comedy Central’s Review ended with Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) — a dedicated “life reviewer” who hosts a show also called Review — accidentally tossing himself over a bridge into a river, pulling his producer, Grant (James Urbaniak), along with him. But there he is in the third season premiere, in his trademark […]
