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): “Their movie adopts the air of menace and suspicion of a John Le Carré novel, yet hinges on the sturdiness of its married couple, like a super spy version of Nick and Nora from ‘The Thin Man’ or a more cerebral ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith.’”(Friday, May 9 on Netflix), Vince Vaughn stars as Jody “Joe” Scaravella, an MTA worker who, after the death of his mother, opens up a traditional Italian restaurant to honor her memory. He hires only grandmothers — played by Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire, Susan Sarandon and Brenda Vaccaro — to do the cooking.
— James Jones’ documentaryplaying as part of PBS’ “Frontline,” follows the Bulgarian investigative journalist, a prominent reporter on the imprisonment and death of
, and Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of, who was poisoned twice and sentenced to 25 years in a Russian prison. The film, debuting May 6 on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app, details the lives of opponents to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
has you down, a new film series on the Criterion Channel collects some brilliant tales of trouble in seaside locales. The series, dubbed “Coastal Thrillers” includes gems like “Key Largo” (1948), “The Breaking Point” (1950) and “The Ghost Writer” (2010).
— After four years, country starProbably not. Legal challenges like the ones against other executive orders
are likely and on Wednesday,for not complying with the government’s push to ban
in girls and women’s sports.The biggest takeaway is that the Trump administration has empowered the federal government to take aggressive steps to go after entities — be they a school or an athletic association and now a state — that do not comply. Federal funding, and potentially grants to educational programs, could be pulled.