Russian mercenaries are chasing one of the world’s most notorious fugitives: the warlord Joseph Kony, who abducted tens of thousands of children from across central Africa, brutalizing and brainwashing them as child soldiers and sex slaves in a decadeslong maelstrom of terror.
Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a bloody near-capture of Kony by Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, in a remote corner of the Central African Republic in early April. A social media post affiliated with Wagner also confirms some aspects of the group’s interest in the warlord.
Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a bloody near-capture of Kony by Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, in a remote corner of the Central African Republic in early April. A social media post affiliated with Wagner also confirms some aspects of the group’s interest in the warlord.
- 4/27/2024
- by Mac William Bishop
- Rollingstone.com
In this earnest documentary, director Chloé Aïcha Boro returns to her home country of Burkina Faso to face the significant ramifications of her uncle dying. Static shots of her community reveal the growing rift between family members arguing about the deceased patriarch's property and ultimate legacy. This personal exploration of identity touches on the deep-rooted value of inheritance and shines a light on a culture torn in navigating the dynamics of tradition and modernity.
After her uncle Ousmane dies on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the filmmaker's family gather to discuss the future of his estate. Far from being just a housing complex, this large residence is a local place of worship. Once the all-male council assembles, the decision over the sharing of the inheritance becomes a mountain to climb. Boro lovingly uses the word tribe to describe the size of her extended family, signalling the importance and difficulty of splitting the.
After her uncle Ousmane dies on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the filmmaker's family gather to discuss the future of his estate. Far from being just a housing complex, this large residence is a local place of worship. Once the all-male council assembles, the decision over the sharing of the inheritance becomes a mountain to climb. Boro lovingly uses the word tribe to describe the size of her extended family, signalling the importance and difficulty of splitting the.
- 12/2/2023
- by Sergiu Inizian
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Focus Features has the right idea in releasing the new sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter just in time for Mother’s Day. Reuniting four genuine movie icons – Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen – whose first film in this senior franchise, 2017’s Book Club, was a surprise hit making over $100 million worldwide, there was proof positive that older female audience was eager for a night or matinee out at the multiplex if the idea and cast were right. Since then the pandemic hit and changed moviegoing habits for the older crowd, a group that is hard to get back into theatres (although not impossible – witness The Lost City and Ticket To Paradise). My guess is that with this quartet back in fine form, and now all over 70 (!), this could again play with the usual Hollywood conceit that women of a certain age are not boxoffice. Throw in Italy...
- 5/8/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Since Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist came out in 1988, it’s obtained an almost apocryphal status that it’s bound to never outgrow. The book, which concerns an Andalusian shepherd on a journey to find out what his destiny is, has been acclaimed less as a gift of great literature than as a fount of self-help. Given that it’s an affirming and, especially, digestible tale of discovery and hope, it makes for an apt early reference point for Bill Holderman’s Book Club: The Next Chapter: Though its main characters don’t carry on an official reading series in this sequel, each points to Coelho’s book as something of a north star in their lives.
The film is cinema as affirmation, asking us to think of it as a ticket to a far-flung locale, where love might be birthed alongside conversations with good friends about innocuous barriers that we pretend are insurmountable.
The film is cinema as affirmation, asking us to think of it as a ticket to a far-flung locale, where love might be birthed alongside conversations with good friends about innocuous barriers that we pretend are insurmountable.
- 5/7/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
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