It is no wonder Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg and US director Peter Berg keep working together back to back, considering they think so much alike. The 47-year-old US actor said: "We wanted to do something where we could have some fun, but our idea of fun is creating a world that is full of violence, betrayal, deceit and all of these things that I think make for a great story." The movie is action thriller Mile 22, which opens here tomorrow and is their fourth project together after Lone Survivor (2013), Deepwater Horizon (2016) and Patriots Day (2016). An elite paramilitary team has to transport a foreign intelligence asset35km (or 22 miles, hence the movie's title) from a US embassy in the fictional South-east Asian country of Indocarr to an airfield for extraction in 38 minutes. Along the way, they have to battle the city's military, police and street gangs who are trying to reclaim the asset. Wahlberg is James Silva, a CIA operative and leader of the secret team. Indonesian martial … [Read more...] about Mile 22’s Mark Wahlberg gets talky for fourth movie with Peter Berg
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The absolute best cosplay photos from Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 — where tech and pop culture superfans collide
caption Silicon Valley Comic Con saw the X-Men arrive in full force. source Melia Robinson/Business Insider Fans in cosplay, or role-playing costumes, invaded San Jose, California, for the third annual Silicon Valley Comic Con. The event, which Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak co-created, combines the Silicon Valley icon’s love of technology and pop culture. This year, we saw screen accurate supervillains, “Game of Thrones” queens, and video game heroes descend on the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Here are some of our favorites. See any great cosplay? Email me your best photos at [email protected] A “life-sized” Totoro greeted attendees of Silicon Valley Comic Con at the doors. source Melia Robinson/Business Insider The man inside the costume, Zach Dender, said he made Totoro by wrapping fabric around a skeleton he made from drainage pipe. A camera situated by his ears let Dender see outside. source Melia … [Read more...] about The absolute best cosplay photos from Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 — where tech and pop culture superfans collide
Here comes the Lion
The first international tour of the stage adaptation of ‘The Lion King’ delivers a new dimension to the thrilling and poignant Disney classic. MANILA, Philippines — It begins with birth, and the dawn. The sky changes colors in a perfect imitation of mood rings. Animals crowd the stage, parading through the audience — cheetahs, antelopes, elephants, birds. And lions, standing proud atop a sprawling rock, presenting their new offspring for all to see. It’s a sequence many of us have seen before, imprinted on our brains since childhood. But never like this. It’s the circle of life, they sing. And it moves us all. Boy, does it move us all. From the very beginning, the stage adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King welcomes viewers to suspend their disbelief through a showcase of color, movement, sound, and pure creativity. It’s a study in organized chaos that wouldn’t be out of place in lively Manila, which is the first stop in the … [Read more...] about Here comes the Lion
This week in Toronto: Fresh films and a veteran popster
Sun., March 18, 2018 TUESDAY P!nk Watch This For: A party of the highest flying order. Since her Y2K arrival, P!nk, as Alecia Moore’s stage name is stylized, has methodically ascended the pop ladder while many of her more celebrated peers from those days have faded — “damn Britney Spears … that just ain’t me,” was how she put it then. She hasn’t so much changed as put her rebel persona, her rasping, mighty voice and breath control, and her emancipating anthems at the centre of a well-honed spectacle both earthbound and aerial. Fans just love to sing along to the hits, at least when they’re not picking their jaws up off the floor. A chandelier and an oversized Eminem inflatable are among the props for this Beautiful Trauma tour, in for two nights, including Wednesday. (Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay St., 7:30 p.m.) —Chris Young Article Continued Below What a Young Wife Ought to Know Watch this if: You have a womb or … [Read more...] about This week in Toronto: Fresh films and a veteran popster
There’s devotion
Re: “Ex-park staffer ‘aided hunting group’,” (BP, Feb 10). Not only the defence on the 25 “borrowed” wristwatches worth 39.5 million baht (“NACC vows to wrap up Prawit probe”, BP, Feb 10) challenges common decency of logic but your latest news of the deputy police chief considering charging Wichien Chinnawong, chief of the Western Thungyai Wildlife Sanctuary, for not having collected admission fees from the influential tycoon has given me a mixed feeling of either to laugh or cry. Despite influence from all sides and an attempt at bribery, Wichien and his team must have been so disgusted with the carcasses of a 1.48-metre black panther, a kalij pheasant and a barking deer to forget his place of being a subordinate of someone in Thailand and did what a few officials dare to do by causing an uproar of disgust. (Seeing him in one of your photos standing and sleeping after two days without sleep and with a monthly reported pay of 9,000 baht … [Read more...] about There’s devotion