内容摘要：Dozens of U.S. states and local governments have filed lawsuits alleging that fossil fuel companies misled the public about how their products could contribute to climate change, claiming billions of dollars in damage from more frequent and intense storms, flooding, rising seas and extreme heat.

Dozens of U.S. states and local governments have filed lawsuits alleging that fossil fuel companies misled the public about how their products could contribute to climate change, claiming billions of dollars in damage from more frequent and intense storms, flooding, rising seas and extreme heat.

Writer-director Elijah Bynum effectively imbues his film with stylized intensity. You feel uneasy and captivated from the start, though you try to give Killian the benefit of the doubt — to look for his goodness, to root for his success, if only for the hope that it might keep him docile for a little longer. Though we’re told early that he’s had violent episodes, through his court-ordered therapist, the glass isn’t fully shattered until Jessie starts to process that Killian is someone she needs to get away from, fast. This is notably after he orders perhaps $500 worth of protein on the date, just for himself. Sadly, we don’t get to see the bill.While “Magazine Dreams” is an interesting character study, one many actors would love to play for all its dramatic opportunities, it also seems crafted entirely to provoke and shock — especially in the almost unbearably bleak final hour. After two viewings, one of which I had to take a break from during one of his violent outbursts, I’m not actually sure what it’s trying to say about men, about trauma, about ‘roid rage. Killian seems less like an authentic person and more a simplistic stand-in for the forgotten person, the quiet weirdo who ends up a mass killer.

(Briarcliff Entertainment via AP)(Briarcliff Entertainment via AP)And yet as movies are being accused of being too straightforward, too moralistic, too simple, perhaps some ambiguity, some discomfort, some unresolved unpleasantness is overdue. Majors is a force, and Bynum is certainly a director to watch. The question with “Magazine Dreams,” which was the same in January 2023 as it is in March 2025 is: Will anyone?

“Magazine Dreams,” a Briarcliff Entertainment release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for “violent content, drug use, sexual material, nudity and language.” Running time: 104 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.“They say you murdered my mother,” the young would-be nun tells the shady tycoon. “I feel the need to address this.”

There’s something about the deadpan delivery and the clear-eyed manner that makes you sit up and take notice of Liesl, and even more of Mia Threapleton, who plays her in

(And there’s another thing, too obvious to ignore: Boy, does she ever resemble her mom, Kate Winslet.)Relentless drought in

, devastating floods in, scorching heat waves in

in the U.S. and Central America make up just some of the recent extreme weather events thatwould be more intense with a warming climate.