内容摘要：and high inflation, many consumers have found themselves unable to cover monthly payments, leading some to default.

and high inflation, many consumers have found themselves unable to cover monthly payments, leading some to default.

“Novocaine,” a Paramount Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for “strong, bloody violence, language throughout, grisly images). Running time: 110 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging:

before it, “A Minecraft Movie” centers on four misfits who enter a mysterious portal that pulls them into a strange land, this time cubic, like Lego only on shrooms.The Jared Hess-directed action-adventure artfully straddles the line between delighting preteen gamers and keeping their parents awake. It’s an often-bananas adaptation, with bizarre digressions into turquoise blouses and tater tot pizzas. It hasbeing very Jennifer Coolidge. Need we say more?

If you’ve never heard of “Minecraft” — or its denizens like Creepers, Piglins, Villagers and Endermen — you are in big trouble. Consult with the closest 10-year-old immediately. (I have one and he noticed a sweet nod to the late YouTuber Technoblade, an Easter egg of sorts.)The movie is faithful to the world of the game, while adding some things — orbs and crystals — to aid the plot. But if you come in cold and spot pandas and folks punching through earth, you’ll likely side with one human character who says: “This place makes no sense.”

Danielle Brooks, from left, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge, Jack Black and Jason Momoa. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Danielle Brooks, from left, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge, Jack Black and Jason Momoa. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s anti-immigration Chega party notched

on Wednesday after it was assigned the second-most seats in parliament — meaning it will become the head of the parliamentary opposition to the new government.That shatters the pattern of Portugal’s center-right and center-left mainstream parties alternating between heading a government or leading the opposition.

Chega’s strides since thecoincide with gains elsewhere by far-right forces. In Europe, those include France’s National Rally, the Brothers of Italy and Alternative for Germany, which are now in the political mainstream.