Arnold contrives a love story, pairing Star with vagabond Jake (Shia LaBeouf). They complement each other: Her dreads, his thick, braided ponytail; her ragamuffin wardrobe and his self-described ...

Nightsleeper is a decent enough thriller, but what really makes this BBC six-part series interesting is its anger at the ...

Axel F has a simple enough premise that contrives a reason for Detroit police detective Axel Foley to go to Beverly Hills and ...

In March, Iowa enacted a law that will require most egg retailers in the state to continue carrying “conventional” eggs from hens raised in densely packed battery cages. Only those stores that had ...

You shoot him, but at the critical moment he bends over to tie his shoelace, or the gun jams, or somehow nature contrives to prevent the act that interrupts the causality scheme leading to your ...

We’ll see if Congress goes along. Kamala has this embarrassing cackle which may be an uncontrollable nervous habit or she contrives for no good reason when something isn’t funny, or cackles at ...

Meanwhile, at an event he’s hosting, Frida (Naomi Ackie), a young woman he has met previously, contrives to connect with him. This billionaire has everything — literally — plus he looks like ...

After being convicted of a petty crime, a charming, rebellious rogue named McMurphy contrives to serve his short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he soon ...

keeps a measured pace that neither flags nor contrives some sort of artificial momentum. But at times this restrained naturalism borders on blandness, as in a late courtroom scene when the speech ...

In addition, the simplicity of his painting technique, use of bright colors and clean lines contrives an atmosphere of hollowness and superficiality: a jab at the prevailing political climate in China ...

He also contrives new color palettes, ignoring the original color of an object or even its representation in the photograph. In an interview, the artist explained that the final paintings “force the ...

After being convicted of a petty crime, a charming, rebellious rogue named McMurphy contrives to serve his short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he soon ...