In incorporating all of Mott Haven and part of the East Bronx up to Highbridge, the CM
looks to garner support
among her base, but bears the risk of having to appeal to tens of thousands of new district residents who have not yet succumbed to her electoral
charms.
Among the many trailers, there was also an exclusive
look at the highly secretive new comedy Dundee — a long - awaited addition to the Crocodile Dundee franchise starring Danny McBride as Dundee's adult son who comes back to Australia to explore his dad's homeland, where he's guided by the endlessly
charming Chris Hemsworth.
Among the other fiction films to
look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more
charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's
looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.
They married, had four beautiful, bright children and lived what
looked like a
charmed life
among the literati glitterati, with all the trappings of the wealth they didn't have.