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'Violent Night' gets the holiday cheer going at #2 on the national chart, but Santa and his reindeer will couldn't take a sleigh ride with current blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Starring David Harbor as the cranky Kris Kringle who takes on a team of mercenaries, the Universal action film debuts halfway through its projections, forecast May 11 $.8. million rides from 3,682 locations. That's a decent result for 87North's production, which boasts a frugal production budget of $20 million. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, "Violent Night" received mediocre reviews from critics, but received a more positive "B+" rating from research firm Cinema Score, indicating strong purchaser approval of the tickets. Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote that the film "throws every genre it can into the compactor, but this could turn out to be a successful Christmas buffet". With a foundation to build on, Violent Night could find itself in a strong posit...

  Daredevil: Rebirth is based on Frank Miller's dark, violent comic book series. Here's why MCU fans should be excited! Daredevil: Rebirth is one of the most talked about Marvel franchises on Disney+. Everyone was happy to see Charlie Cox as Daredevil again. There's a lot to love about the Netflix show, and now it's getting fans excited to see a new Daredevil adventure fold into a larger universe. There's still a lot we don't know about the show, and maybe Disney will make more announcements at D23, but there's still plenty of reason to look forward to this new series. Daredevil: Rebirth promises to be one of the darker, more character-heavy stories Marvel will release. If the comics can hint at anything, you won't want to miss it. he Daredevil: Born once more magazine event was originally written by Frank Miller. The legendary author wrote such comics as Sin City, 300, and also the Dark Knight Returns. If you don’t grasp this writer’s name, then you oug...

  Steve James takes a break from his duties as Chicago’s documentary poet laureate with the new unscripted feature A Compassionate Spy, a topical and stylistic detour that still has a place within the director’s ongoing exploration of the blurry line between justice and injustice. A Compassionate Spy borrows the look and feel of a historical espionage thriller and builds some momentum and moral complexity along the way, but it finds its real potency as a generational family drama. Ted Hall was recruited to join the Manhattan Project when he was still a teenager. A brilliant young physicist, Ted went to Los Alamos with no clue what he would be working on, but when he learned the nature of the weapon being designed, he began to worry that if only the United States possessed nuclear technology, the post-war risks might be great. It was only 1944, but Ted Hall was already imagining the potential for a nuclear holocaust after Germany’s inevitable surrender, so he began to pass informati...

  When Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar’s fifth studio album, was released on May 13, one of the album’s standout tracks quickly became “We Cry Together,” as much for its raw subject matter as its slightly irregular format. (The song sounds more like a radio play or rap battle than it does a traditional hip-hop offering.) Taylour Paige (Zola, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) assumes the role of Lamar’s star-crossed lover his trigger and his muse and today the hyperreal song has come to life further with the worldwide debut of a six-minute short film of the same name. The short film based on the album’s eighth track, in which a quarreling couple communicates both everything and nothing, was produced by Lamar’s creative collective pgLang and shot with live audio and no cuts in a single take a fitting approach for an album rendered in blues and Blackness, woven with elements of both trap and free jazz. “We Cry Together” (the song) was recorded in February 2020, and the accom...