The night of the shooting, Dalia Karim locked the doors of her family’s 7-Eleven for the first time in 17 years. Five years earlier, Buck had been released from a long prison sentence—”15 years, 8 months, and 2 days, to be exact”—and he was deeply grateful to the Karims for hiring him despite “the stigma often associated with my personal …
Dane Brown, who survived a 2019 drug overdose and prompted an investigation against Democratic donor and activist Ed Buck, was found dead on a South Los Angeles sidewalk last week. “Ultimately, it was a bigger struggle than he could deal with.” Cannick said Brown was found dead near Vernon and McKinley avenues, across the street from the apartment where he …
Those three words — and that very emphatic punctuation — appear onscreen at the beginning of “The Harder They Fall,” setting a definitive tone for this stylish and bold new Western by Jeymes Samuel. Samuel, the British filmmaker-musician also known as The Bullitts, is a fan of old Westerns, but he introduces much that’s new — especially an eclectic soundtrack …
