MoviesReviewIqbal is torn between his supernatural powers and the desire to be a normal teenager in Dain Said’s lacklustre horror
Littered with monstrous apparitions and gruesome deaths, this latest horror film from seasoned Malaysian filmmaker Dain Said is also haunted by growing pains. Blessed – and cursed – with the same supernatural abilities possessed by his mother, young Iqbal (Idan Aedan) is torn between his power of exorcism and his desire to lead a normal teenage existence.
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New Orleans This article is more than 1 year oldNew Orleans lawyer fined for alerting school to priest’s past sexual misconductThis article is more than 1 year oldRichard Trahant was fined $400,000 for violating confidentiality rules around a bankruptcy filing by the local archdiocese
A New Orleans attorney who represents victims of clerical sexual abuse faces a $400,000 fine after alerting a local Catholic high school that a priest who worked there once admitted to fondling and kissing a teen girl he met at another church institution.
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Tom PettyThe process of creating the defining album that the singer deemed his finest is explored in a dense new documentary
The album Tom Petty considered to be the best work of his career chronicled the most tumultuous period of his life. Between the summer of 1992 and the spring of 94, the stretch in which he recorded his classic album Wildflowers, Petty’s 22-year marriage to the mother of his two children fell apart, he fired the drummer with whom he had worked since his Heartbreakers band began nearly three decades before, and he left both the record company for which he recorded all of his hits and the producer who shaped some of his biggest ones.