内容摘要：Williams was a former drummer for The Devil Wears Prada, a popular Ohio metalcore band celebrated for its ability to marry melodic punk rock with metallic detours.

Williams was a former drummer for The Devil Wears Prada, a popular Ohio metalcore band celebrated for its ability to marry melodic punk rock with metallic detours.

But “Eephus” is just as deserving of a place in that hardball pantheon, only in some minor ball realm, well below single A. Here, they don’t throw “high cheese” but such meatballs that, as one player riffs, you could call it pasta primavera. To call this a field of dreams would be pushing it. But it’s a lovely way to pass some time.“Eephus,” a Music Box release is not rated by the Motion Picture Association but contains coarse language. Running time: 98 minutes. Three stars out of four.

is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward.Few films course with history the way it does in thean epic collage that spans 21 years. Jia undertook the film during the pandemic, assembling a mix of fiction and documentary, including images from his earlier films as well as newly shot scenes.

That might sound like a mishmash kind of moviemaking. But for Jia, the preeminent cinematic chronicler of 21st century China, it’s a remarkably cohesive, even profound vessel for capturing what has most interested him as a filmmaker: the tidal wave-sized currents of technological progress and social transmutation that wash over a lifetime.The high-speed upheavals of modern China are, of course, a fitting setting for such interests. Jia’s films are often most expressed in their surroundings — in vistas of infrastructure that dwarf his protagonists. Fans of Jia will recognize some from his previous films. For me, there’s never been a more moving backdrop from him than the rubble and mass displacement of the

project (seen here, as in his 2008 film “Still Life”).

“Caught by the Tides” is ostensibly about Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao, Jia’s wife and muse) and her lover Bin (Li Zhubin), whom she searches for years after a row sent them in different directions. But in “Caught by the Tides,” these characters are more like life rafts bobbing in expansive waters, making their way aimlessly.The fact that it’s a rematch in the final — the NHL’s first since Pittsburgh beat Detroit in the second of their back-to-backs in 2009 — only spices things up. There have only been four rematches in the Final since 1968.

“I don’t think there’ll be any weeding out or wading into that series,” Demers said. “I think it’s going to be gun shot, explosions right off the bat.”Going down two games to none last year led to McDavid’s profanity-laced outburst in the locker room, a moment caught on cameras that wasn’t quite enough to turn around the series. The memory of going down 3-0, clawing back to cross the continent again for a Game 7 and not winning is still fresh in his mind.

The Oilers have been through that trip to the final and feel the pain now, something the Panthers endured before winning. Now it’s time to see if they learn the same lesson and“Edmonton now, I think they needed to experience last year to get to where they’re at now and they’re kind of unflappable,” Rupp said. “I think that’s a weapon for them.”