“Our hearts are broken for Devah’s family, and we ask that you continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers during this unimaginably difficult time,” the district said in a social media post.
You can feel the formulas of the first two movies a little more obviously this time. Following in the footsteps of “Paddington 2” standoutsand Brendan Gleeson (both of whom deserve honorary Oscars — no, Nobel Prizes — for their previous efforts), those supporting roles this time go to Colman, as an obviously distrustful singing nun, and Antonio Banderas, as the river guide Hunter Cabot.
Hunter and his teenage daughter Gina (Carla Tous) ferry the Browns and Paddington into the Peruvian forest in a quest for Aunt Lucy that soon combines with his family’s generations-long hunt for the mythical city of El Dorado. Just as Grant donned many disguises in the last film, Banderas plays his Spanish ancestors, figments of his increasingly unhinged imagination.There are some gags to be had, including a stone facade version of a famous Buster Keaton stunt. But as much as I endorse finding any role here for Colman, particularly as a shifty nun, I do question whether there might have been a more compelling storyline in Paddington returning home.Once Paddington and the Browns set foot on the river boat, “Paddington in Peru” gets swept away just as Klaus Kinski did in “Fitzcarraldo.” Tales of madness in the Amazonian jungle are their own cinematic tradition, but I’m unconvinced a bear-version of El Dorado was where the Paddington movies needed to go. Does Paddington need a trip overseas when just a visit to a photo booth (for his passport picture) provides all the necessary entertainment?
These films have always been much more at home in London than South America, anyway. As the lovely coda to “Paddington in Peru” reminds, Paddington (officially a British citizen for the first time) is himself a migrant who once arrived from a foreign land with a tag reading: “Please look after this bear.” It’s a gentle reminder that many, not just the bear at the center of this lovable franchise, need looking out for.“Paddington in Peru,” a Sony Pictures release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association for action, mild rude humor and some thematic elements. Running time: 106 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new film “Last Breath.” His umbilical cable has severed. The support vessel above is aimlessly drifting away from the site through violent, stormy waters. And the diver has only ten minutes of oxygen in his backup tank.
As if that wasn’t enough, it’s also a true story.More than 5,600 people were killed across Haiti last year, and more than 1,600 others from January to end of March, according to the U.N. Gang violence also has left more than 1 million people homeless
Pélissier noted that Haiti’s National Police is severely understaffed — there is one officer for every 12,000 residents. He said that intelligence and counterintelligence also is greatly lacking.Jean-Michel Moïse, Haiti’s defense minister, echoed those concerns.
The military has about 1,000 members with limited training, he said.“They are unable, still now, to effectively (fight) the gangs, which are very strong, very well armed, very well financed,” Moïse said. “Haiti is on the brink of being fully controlled by criminal gangs, and we cannot allow that to happen.”