'The Blackening' finds the life in its 'We can't all die first' concept
The promotional line for "The Blackening" is so good -- "We can't all die first" -- there was reason to fear the movie couldn't live up to it. Yet like other self-referential horror/comedies (the "Scream" franchise come to mind), the film ably delivers on its premise, mining enough life from its satirical concept to deliver plenty of crowd-pleasing moments.
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BOJ to weigh pros and cons of its tool-kit in review -governor
By Leika Kihara TOKYO The Bank of Japan will scrutinise the effects and side-effects of its unconventional monetary
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'Nothing to hide': AIIB will investigate claims of Chinese Communist Party control
A Beijing-based multinational lender is launching an internal review after Canada suspended its ties with the regional development bank, citing explosive claims that the Chinese Communist Party had infiltrated the institution.
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Climate and Ukraine loom over supply-strained Paris Airshow
By Tim Hepher, Valerie Insinna, Joanna Plucinska and Allison Lampert PARIS Global aerospace and defence companies will tout
1970-01-01 08:00
Marketmind: Stocks fight the Fed as markets still not listening
By Naomi Rovnick LONDON If you looked at red-hot stock markets without following central banks, you could well
1970-01-01 08:00
Marketmind: The UK consumer is feeling the heat
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan It's not just the heatwave. UK
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DOJ expected to announce findings of review of Minneapolis Police Department after George Floyd murder
Top Justice Department officials on Friday are expected to announce the findings of a two-year long investigation of the policing practices of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter said.
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Marketmind: After the hawks, here comes the Bank of Japan dove
By Jamie McGeever A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist.
1970-01-01 08:00
'Black Mirror's' new season is only occasionally all it's cracked up to be
A new season of "Black Mirror" is always something of an occasion, especially since Netflix opportunistically scooped up the sci-fi-ish anthology series in 2015. Coming four years after Season 5, the latest batch bats roughly two out of five in terms of memorable episodes in a run that tilts more heavily toward horror, and falls short of feeling like everything the acclaimed show is cracked up to be.
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Instant View: Still-hawkish Fed pauses rate tightening after 10 straight hikes
NEW YORK The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but signaled in new economic projections that
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'The Full Monty' series revival looks all dressed up with no place to go
"The Fully Monty" quickly reveals itself to be one of those revivals that's all dressed up with no place to go, squandering enthusiasm for this transformation of the genial 1997 box-office hit into an eight-episode series. Most of the gang returns, but it's a reunion largely in search of a concept, which taps into the economic desperation that motivated their original strip routine without the lightness to offset that.
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Valery Zaluzhny, the man behind Ukraine's counteroffensive
Gen Valery Zaluzhny is Ukraine's handpicked army boss and mastermind of the unlikely successes over Russia.
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