, which has the world’s highest reported trans homicide rate.

Once we get a decent view of the creatures they’re charged with keeping under control, they appear half tree root, half human, like demon Groots. “The Gorge” is better before our main characters are no longer poised at the mouth of hell but running through the gorge floor. One minute, they’re swaying to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the next they’re being swallowed by an adhesive root system. “The Gorge” is pretty superficial stuff, but perhaps we can await its even shallower sequel, “The Gully.”“The Gorge,” an Apple Studios release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, some suggestive material and thematic elements. Running time: 127 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day this year with “Captain America: Brave New World,” a highly processed, empty calorie, regret-later candy of a movie.We’re nearing the end of Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with predictable and underwhelming returns. “Captain America: Brave New World” feels like it’s just treading water, wastingin his first cinematic outing as his “Hamlet”-like Captain America.

The story by Rob Edwards, Malcolm Spellman and Dalan Musson gathers familiar Marvel characters and blends them into a White House conspiracy-meets-international violent face-off in the Indian Ocean. Only Marvel in Phase Five could make that boring.It lifts from “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Top Gun” and even pointlessly steals its title from Aldous Huxley. It cannibalizes from other Marvel movies, like the addition of a substance called Adamantium, much like Vibranium from Wakanda. There is a

song heard at the climactic end, but it’s not new; it’s from 2014.

as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross — taking the role over from from the“We also collaborate with other companies to share information and take actions against these evolving threats across the internet,” Meta said.

The recruitment of children has become a major problem in rural areas of Colombia that are disputed by the military, drug gangs and rebel groups.According to Colombia’s Human Rights Ombudsman, 409 children under 18 were recruited into rebel groups in the South American nation last year, twice as many as in 2023.

The U.N. recorded 216 cases of forced recruitment of minors in Colombia last year.The problem has been particularly striking in Cauca province in the southwest, where fighting has intensified as rebel groups try to fill a power vacuum left by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the guerrilla group that made peace with the government in 2016.