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Todays Object of the Week is a County Durham sculptire which hit the national headlines this week.

Left: Frances McDormand stars in "Nomadland" (Hulu); right: Shane Paul McGhie and Richard Jenkins star in "The Last Shift" (Sony Pictures Releasing). “Nomadland” was a big winner at an Oscars that hardly anyone watched, with Chloé Zhao winning Best Director, Frances McDormand taking home Best Actress, and the film claiming Best Picture. Contrary to what the Academy thinks of the film, I believe is one of worst movies I’ve ever watched (which is saying something). I also believe that “T...

Race, class and burgers … Shane Paul McGhie, left, and Richard Jenkins in The Last Shift. In writer-director Andrew Cohn’s deceptively modest drama The Last Shift, fast-food worker Stanley (Richard Jenkins) is finally calling it quits. He has worked the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish for 38 years, but now he’s moving from Michigan to Florida to take care of his elderly mother; grease be gone. He’s proud of his tenure, slickly handlin...

New to Stream: Starz March 2021 Movie & TV Titles Announced New to Stream: Starz March 2021 Movie & TV Titles Announced The full list of March 2021 movies and TV titles that will be available for streaming on the Starz App has been released (via Vital Thrills), which you can now view below along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service this month. 2020 films such as

Greetings, I’m Charles McNulty, your friendly neighborhood theater critic, pinch-hitting for my colleague (and Times arts desk all-star) Carolina A. Miranda, who’s taking a well-deserved vacation. Before I run out of baseball metaphors, allow me to fill you in on the arts stories that have gripped our attention in the last week. A moment of silence The nation reached a mournful milestone on Monday, surpassing 500,000 known coronavirus-related deaths. President Biden held a moment of sil...

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The Last Shift is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble. These two who share little in common are brought together through circums...

Check out the new DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming shows (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Acorn TV, Sundance Now and Disney+) coming out this week, including Honest Thief starring Liam Neeson. ~Alexandra Heilbron Honest Thief – Tom Dolan (Liam Neeson), a former demolitions expert, has over $9 million in cash from robbing banks. When he meets a woman, Annie (Kate Walsh), he doesn’t want to lie to her about his past so he calls the FBI and tells them he’ll hand over the cash in exchange...

The Last Shift. The two play Stanley and Jevon, a pair of fast food workers who have very different ideas on how to get their job done. While Jenkins’ Stanley is meticulous, organized, and a bit too vocal about the importance of flipping chicken patties, McGhie’s Jevon simply sees his job as a means to an end. Jenkins tells ABC Audio that he and McGhie really “responded to the writing.” “And that’s where it starts,” he says. “And I didn’t know where it was going to go whe...

December 22 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases December 22 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s December 22 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!  NOTE: There will be no column next week, so we have included a few of the major titles for December 25 and December 29 as well. Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank ...