‘Blue Beetle’ Review: Superhero Origin Story Succeeds with a Mix of ’80s-Style VFX and Low Stakes

The number of people in Dumfries and Galloway losing their life to alcohol has reached record levels.

Michael Mann would seem a perfect fit for a biopic of Italian motorsports legend Enzo Ferrari, himself being a master technician and a director working at the high end of his commercial craft. The result, though, is a strangely tame beast, an introspective look at an in-between moment in its subject’s life, when his business hit the rocks, his marriage all but imploded and a series of fatal accidents kept his name in the papers for all the wrong reasons.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The 50th Telluride Film Festival official lineup has been announced, revealing multiple world premieres including Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” and Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers.” In addition, the festival will pay tribute to Oscar-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose film “Poor Things” will debut Stateside after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

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Former pop star Louise Redknapp has shared a sweet snap from her summer holidays with her rarely-seen sons Charley and Beau.The trio looked to enjoy time on the beach as she posted a snap of them walking by sunbeds at what looked to be sunset. Louise shares her two kids Charley, 19, and Beau, 14, with former Premier League footballer Jamie Redknapp, 50, as the pair were married for over a decade from 1998 to 2017.

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The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers says he has scrapped the band’s new album halfway through.The band returned this week with new single ‘Your Side Of Town’, which marked the band’s first single of the year, as well as their first release since last year’s standalone single ‘Boy’.However, in a new interview with The Times, Flowers has revealed that the band’s planned new album has been scrapped.“Halfway through recording I realised, ‘I can’t do this,’” Flowers said, adding: “This isn’t the kind of record… I think this will be the… I don’t think you’ll see us making this type of music any more.”He added: “This is the crisis I’m in. The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I’m more fulfilled making music like [2021 album] ‘Pressure Machine’.“I found a side of myself writing it that was strong.

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Blue Beetle” took down “Barbie” at this past weekend’s box office. The film came in the first spot with a $25.4 million opening, earning an additional $18 million internationally. The film is led by 22 year old Xolo Maridueña, playing Jaime Reyes.

Naman Ramachandran The “Barbenheimer” juggernaut continued rolling on at the U.K. and Ireland box office, occupying the top two slots for the fifth consecutive weekend. Warner Bros.’ “Barbie” took pole position yet again with £2.6 million ($3.4 million), per numbers released by Comscore.

, creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's award-winning and long-running FX anthology series, is gearing up for season 12. Dubbed, the newest installment looks to be a significant departure from seasons of the past. As production for the newest installment continues, casting and other details are slowly being revealed.

Refresh for latest…: It’s been another very busy weekend at the international box office with milestones and great holds, as well as a new entry and local-language movies adding to the mix. 

Christopher Vourlias Receiving a lifetime achievement award this week at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay teased a slew of projects currently in the pipeline, heralding her much-anticipated return to the director’s chair since wowing Cannes in 2017 with the Joaquin Phoenix-starring thriller “You Were Never Really Here.” Among them are a second collaboration with Phoenix, who earned best actor honors on the Croisette for that performance, as well as “Stone Mattress,” a revenge thriller set aboard a luxury Arctic cruise that stars Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh. There’s also “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, which is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz about a woman living in isolation in rural France who loses her mind amid marriage and motherhood.

DC’s latest addition to superhero cinema, Blue Beetle (★★☆☆☆), seems to thread together two disparate films that the makers struggle mightily to fuse into a satisfying, cohesive whole.At its most successful, the movie, directed by Ángel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings), introduces Mexican college grad Jaime Reyes, played by Cobra Kai’s Xolo Maridueña, along with Jaime’s loving, but financially imperiled family. Dad Alberto (Damián Alcázar), mom Rocio (Elpidio Carrillo), younger sister Milagro (Belissa Escobedo), crazy conspiracy theory-addled uncle Rudy (George Lopez), and feisty matriarch Nana (Adriana Barraza, who almost steals the show) all rally around Jaime when a mysterious sapphire-blue scarab latches onto his body and consciousness, making him an unwilling host to a “world-destroying weapon.” Time spent with Jaime and the Reyes family, steeped in authentic Latino culture, humor, and relationships, plays like the warmly comic pilot episode of a sitcom I’d gladly binge.Each episode could include a flashback to the adventures of Nana Reyes, which, based on the hints she drops, would be as thrilling and dangerous as anything Jaime encounters in his new scarab-assisted superhero form as Blue Beetle.That brings us to the other, less successful counterpart to the Meet the Reyes Family sitcom: the relatively lame-ass origin story of another DC Comics hero that’s so clearly intended as a setup for future appearances that it fails to do anything interesting with the character’s big-screen debut.

Jordan Moreau “Barbie” has reigned over the box office with a historic, hot-pink theatrical run over the past four weeks, but now it’s facing its biggest challenge yet: DC’s latest superhero film, “Blue Beetle.” The comic book film, led by “Cobra Kai” star Xolo Maridueña, picked up $3.3 million in Thursday previews at the domestic box office. It’ll be a close box office battle between “Barbie” and “Blue Beetle” (both from Warner Bros.), but the latter is tipped to come out on top in its opening weekend. “Blue Beetle” is projected to make between $25 million to $32 million this weekend, while “Barbie” is poised to add $17 million to $20 million in its fifth week.

A paedophile wept in the dock as he was handed a suspended sentence for amassing a huge collection of child abuse images.

Blue Beetle has been released – check it out below.Directed by Ángel Manuel Soto, the DC superhero outing follows Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) who gains superpowers after an alien Blue Beetle scarab grafts onto his body and gives him a powerful exoskeleton.The film is the first live-action superhero film with a Latino lead, with Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai) taking up the mantle. Other members of the cast include Bruna Marquezine, Adriana Barraza, Damián Alcázar, Raoul Max Trujillo and Susan Sarandon.Bobby Krlic, also known under his stage name The Haxan Cloak, composed the score for Blue Beetle.

director Ángel Manuel Soto knew that making the first major superhero movie with a Latino lead would require a pitch-perfect cast. That included the voice of the alien Scarab, which becomes the Blue Beetle's exoskeleton supersuit when it attaches to host Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña).So, whom did he cast? None other than Mexican-American pop superstar Becky G!«I really wanted to work with Becky G,» Soto raved to ET's Ash Crossan in a recent interview.

The latest D.C. superhero movie is not another grim Batman sequel, or yet another Superman reboot.