But they could resonate among the steadfast anti-war protest movement, said Alma Beck, an activist who is part of a small contingent of demonstrators who have been holding up pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza ever since Israel ended a ceasefire in March. She said the group began as 20 people and has grown to 600, still just a fraction of the thousands attending the broader anti-government protests.
wrote several Moretti songs for the film and they’re laughably bad Eurotrash pop. The movie opens with slo-mo images of fans rocking out rapturously to Moretti and yet no viewer will want to hear these songs again. They’re very middle.Edebiri hides in a bathtub in “Opus.” (Anna Kooris/A24 via AP)
Edebiri hides in a bathtub in “Opus.” (Anna Kooris/A24 via AP)Part of the problem is it’s not clear what kind of artist he is — a guitar hero? A dance savant? A Lady Gaga-like explorer? Fascinatingly, TV on the Radio’s 2008 song “DLZ” is heard over the final credits, nothing original. If you don’t have the goods, why even make this film?As if you didn’t already know, not everyone will leave this remote New Mexican compound, where the guests are under constant surveillance, cellphones and laptops have been confiscated, and workers have curious scars. “This whole thing is a trip,” one says. It gets weirder: Moretti insists all pubic hair be removed. And there’s something with oysters.
Green wobbles as he tries to land this plane and what had been an intriguing premise to talk about fame and the parasitic industries that live off it turns into a gross-out, run-for-it bloodfest and a plot that unravels. It becomes what it intended to satirize — a pop spectacle.“Opus,” an A24 release in theaters Friday, is rated R for “violent content including a grisly image, language, sexual material and brief graphic nudity.” Running time: 103 minutes. One star out of four.
There’s rage simmering inside Killian Maddox, the amateur bodybuilder portrayed by
at the heart of the dark and stylized film“Many patients are arriving too late to be saved,” she said. “We don’t know the true scale of the outbreak, and our teams can only see a fraction of the full picture.”
She called for a united response, including water, sanitation and hygiene programs and more treatment facilities.In March, MSF said that 92 people had died of cholera in Sudan’s White Nile State, where 2,700 people had contracted the disease since late February.
The World Health Organization said that the water-borne disease is a fast-developing and highly contagious infection that causes diarrhea and leads to severe dehydration and possible death within hours when not treated. The disease is transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or water.The outbreak is the latest crisis for Sudan, which was plunged into a war more than two years ago, when tensions between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group, or RSF, exploded with street battles in Khartoum that quickly spread across the country.