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The acclaimed composer’s 1981 musical, “Merrily We Roll Along,” had a surprising journey. It initially failed, closing just two weeks after its debut, but gradually became a beloved classic. This is fitting for a story told in reverse order. A recent recording of a successful Broadway production, featuring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez, powerfully demonstrates the musical’s impact. The show focuses on three close friends in New York City, and their story, unfolding backward over many years, is like carefully piecing together a broken vase – allowing us to see both the damage and what holds it together.

I was completely hooked from the very beginning of this film. Wagner Moura plays Armando, and the story starts with him driving to Recife in 1977. He stops at this desolate gas station and sees a body, just lying there covered with cardboard – apparently it’s been there a while, and no one really seems to care. Then, just as you’re taking it all in, the police show up, but they aren’t there to investigate the death. They want a bribe from Armando! It instantly sets the scene – the director, Mendonça Filho, who I loved in “Bacurau,” makes it clear we’re entering a really harsh period. It’s a brutal dictatorship where life doesn’t seem to matter and you’re completely on your own. It’s a powerful and unsettling opening, and it really grabbed me.

British filmmaker Shackleton, known for his experimental style, planned to make a film based on the theories of a police officer from Vallejo. This officer believed he knew the identity of the Zodiac killer – the infamous criminal who terrorized the Bay Area in the late 1960s, sending taunting letters and codes to the police and was never caught. Shackleton was captivated by the memoir of former highway patrol officer Lyndon Lafferty, which described a long investigation into a specific suspect and a belief that a cover-up was preventing justice. When Shackleton couldn’t secure the rights to Lafferty’s story, he decided to pursue a different film project instead.

Disney has officially revealed the X-Men team for the upcoming film at a recent event in Italy. The lineup includes familiar faces like Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, James Marsden as Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, and Channing Tatum as Gambit.

According to entertainment reporter Daniel Richtman, AMC is currently developing a series that would bring together characters from the various The Walking Dead spin-off shows. This is the first news about a possible crossover event in the Walking Dead universe, although a producer for the franchise hinted at something similar last year.