Motor City's director explains how he made the most unique revenge thriller of the year

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After spending nearly two decades in development, Motor City has finally reached the big screen. Starring Alan Ritchson as an ex-Army Ranger seeking revenge after being framed and sent to prison, the film tells much of its story with little dialogue, relying instead on physical performances, visual storytelling, and a soundtrack of classic rock needle drops that become as important as the characters themselves.

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Charli XCX Makes the Most of Her Moment With ‘Music, Fashion, Film’

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Album Review

Her proper follow-up to Brat is a brilliant, catchy, often very funny look at the machinery of fame

For more than a decade, Charli XCX was a secret weapon, a brazen experimentalist, a raw diarist, and (apologies to Chappell Roan) your favorite artist’s favorite artist. But she was not, exactly, a pop star — the kind that fills arenas,covers magazines,performs at the Grammys, and has the masses hanging on her every word. The British musician’s culture-shifting 2024 electro-pop confessionalBrat changed all that, lifting her name from “also starring” to above the title. Who better to churn out a 30-minute treatise on the art of image-making?

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‘The Big Bang Theory’ Makes Triumphant Return to Comic-Con With ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’

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“The Big Bang Theory‘s” Stuart Bloom may not have saved the universe, but he certainly saved San Diego Comic-Con.

HBO Max’s upcoming spinoff “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” gave fans a sneak peak of the first episode ahead of its release Thursday night. Felicia Day hosted a panel with Kevin Sussman, who reprises his “Big Bang Theory” role as Stuart; Lauren Lapkus, who plays Denise; John Ross Bowie, who plays Kripke; and Brian Posehn, who plays Bert. Also at the panel were Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn and Bill Prady, the show’s co-creators, executive producers and writers.

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