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Friday 24 May 2019
A cool concept lost in execution in 'Brightburn'

By LINDSEY BAHR this one before, right? Sure,
Associated Press everyone knows about Su-
"Brightburn " is a one idea perman.
movie. What if a baby But "Brightburn" twists that
from another planet crash hero origin story and won-
lands on earth and is ad- ders what would happen
opted and raised by a nice if this alien child was not a
childless couple living on a good person. This is a kind
farm? This kid doesn't get of bad seed with superhero
hurt, never bleeds and, powers and it doesn't bode
right around puberty starts well for all those around
to discover that he has su- him.
perhuman strength too. At It's an interesting premise,
this point you're probably certainly, but the movie
thinking that you've heard around it is wholly unexcep-

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Jackson A. Dunn in a scene from Screen Gems'
"Brightburn."
Associated Press

tional and rushes through premise because it does he knows it. Although an
key set up that might make nothing to help explain, outsider with his peers, the
the audience actually care cutting immediately to positive reinforcement he
for the characters in order grainy home videos show- receives from his teacher,
to get to the sadistic gore. ing a little boy growing up his mom and a pretty girl
The film introduces Tori surrounded by love. By this in his class go to his head
(Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle point you feel about as at- and he starts believing he's
Breyer (David Denman) in tached to the Breyer family superior to everyone. So
their bedroom, surrounded as you might the family in a you can only imagine what
by fertility books and talk- cereal commercial. happens when a strength
ing about conceiving when When the montage ends, component and some de-
a fiery object crash-lands Brandon Breyer (Jackson monic voices are added to
in their field. The filmmak- A. Dunn) is about to turn the mix — a supervillain is
ers must assume everyone 12. He's a smart kid, far be- born, and he is not messing
coming in knows the basic yond those in his class, and around.q

Nik Wallenda and sister plan highwire

walk over Times Square

ABC announced Thursday cluding one that is home to
that Wallenda and his sister The New York Times.
Lijana will cross the tourist Nik Wallenda said in a
hotspot during a 1,300-foot statement: "I am beyond
(396-meter) simultaneous excited to be able to walk
highwire walk 25 stories with my sister, Lijana, as she
above the ground. ABC overcomes near-death in-
will air the attempt during juries and continues the
a two-hour prime-time spe- Wallenda tradition of never
cial on June 23. giving up."
It will be Lijana Wallenda's His feats have included
first highwire walk since a a 1,800-foot (549-meter)
In this April 27, 2015 file photo, 2017 accident in Florida left tightrope walk from the
Nik Wallenda answers ques- her and four other mem- New York side of Niagara
tions at a news conference in
front of the Orlando Eye, in Or- bers of the family's troupe Falls into Canada in 2012
lando, Fla. seriously injured . The Times and a 2013 crossing of the
Associated Press Square walk will involve un- Little Colorado River Gorge
specified safety devices, near the Grand Canyon.
Associated Press but organizers say it does The special, which is be-
NEW YORK (AP) — For his not eliminate all risks. ing produced by dick clark
next trick, daredevil Nik ABC says the siblings will productions, will include
Wallenda plans to cross start from opposite ends of footage of the siblings'
New York's Times Square — the wire, which will be sus- preparations and their fam-
without his feet touching pended between two of ily's history of death-defying
the ground. Times Square's towers, in- stunts.q