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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Yahoo
Security concerns in Downtown Harrisburg increases as its police presence decreases
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Changes to the police patrols in Downtown Harrisburg are leaving many in the area concerned. abc27 News was told that for the last several years, there's been a lot of police downtown — on weekends especially — due to a rise in crime. During a press conference last June, Police Commissioner Thomas Carter said, 'If I have to call in the SWAT team to walk around with A-R 15's strapped to them, Harrisburg will settle down. Harrisburg will be a quiet city. Harrisburg will be a safe city. They'll bring it down horses, Capital police.' It wasn't just on-duty police helping though. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Business owners on north 2nd street would pay off-duty Harrisburg officers to provide additional security. 'Sometimes they would close off the street, blockade it,' recalled Sherod Johnson, co-owner of Ward of Health. The police department decided those off-duty officers could no longer have that side-job — after an altercation on St. Patrick's Day weekend involving an officer and another individual. Marly Taylor of Mechanicsburg took the video that went viral. 'So, I was in line standing in to wait to get into Nocturnal,' Taylor said. 'And I actually see the female police officer pull her pepper spray out. And so, I brought out my phone. I start recording and then basically a police officer came up and like, shoved him while he wasn't looking, pushed him out into the street. And they were very rough with him.' While this altercation is still under investigation, there's now concern about having less police presence downtown. 'There's been a lot of things going on down here suddenly though so I don't really know why they would take the police away, you know, when all these things are going on,' Johnson said. 'It's getting hot, people start to be outside more, it could get a little more crazy here.' Now business owners will have to hire other people for security. abc27 News did reach out to the Harrisburg Police Department for comment and was told to contact the Police Commissioners' office. We have not heard back from them yet. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Carry-On Director Jaume Collet-Serra Finds Next Project in Thriller Movie Play Dead
Carry-On director has found his next project. Collet-Serra recently directed Carry-On, the hit Netflix movie that stars Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman. He's also worked with Liam Neeson on a number of movies, including 2011's Unknown, 2014's Non-Stop, and more. Per Deadline, Collet-Serra has now been tapped to helm a new survival thriller movie titled Play Dead. Plot details for Play Dead remain under wraps at this time; however, Deadline's sources described the movie as 'Don't Breathe meets 1917.' The former title is the 2016 horror movie directed by Fede Álvarez, while the latter is the war movie from Sam Mendes that was released in 2019. The script comes from Peter Stanley-Ward & Natalie Conway. Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs are producing the film for Nocturnal alongside Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for Ghost House Pictures, JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight Pictures, and Dane Eckerle for Bad Grey. Scott Greenberg serves as an executive producer. Collet-Serra made his feature film directorial debut in 2005 with House of Wax. He followed that up with 2007's Goal II: Living the Dream and 2009's Orphan before he then went on to helm Unknown and Non-Stop. He then reteamed with Neeson again for 2015's Run All Night before directing Blake Lively in 2016's The Shallows. Following that was another Neeson action movie, 2018's The Commuter. After that, he worked with Dwayne Johnson on two movies: 2021's Jungle Cruise and 2022's Black Adam. Prior to Stay Dead, Collet-Serra's The Woman in the Yard is releasing in United States theaters on March 28, 2025. That movie is a psychological horror film that stars Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Russell Hornsby. Additionally, Collet-Serra has been tapped to direct a reboot of 1993's Cliffhanger starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan. A release date for Play Dead has not yet been announced. The post Carry-On Director Jaume Collet-Serra Finds Next Project in Thriller Movie Play Dead appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Korea Herald
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Ha Jung-woo takes 'Nocturnal' down to raw instinct
Noir heavyweight returns with a stripped-down chase thriller in which brutality speaks its own language In "Nocturnal," noir heavyweight Ha Jung-woo returns to familiar territory: the gritty underbelly of Korean crime thrillers where he made his name with the likes of "The Chaser" (2008) and "The Yellow Sea" (2010). His latest outing proves a curious specimen -- a chase film stripped to the bare bones, in which the most brazen plot holes in effect become aesthetic features and violence serves its own logic. The film subscribes to the most elemental of hard-boiled tropes: The chase. Ha's Min-tae, a former gang member, pursues his sister-in-law Moon-young (Yoo Da-in), whom he suspects of murdering his younger brother. Hovering at the narrative's periphery is Ho-ryeong (Kim Nam-gil), a novelist whose recent bestseller seems to prophesy the death—a subplot that dangles tantalizingly before dissipating into the film's propulsive momentum. Over coffee in Seoul's Samcheong-dong, Ha discusses his latest role with the same unfettered spontaneity that marks his performance—a quality, he notes, that's become increasingly rare in contemporary Korean cinema. "With multi-casting and big-budget productions becoming the norm," he says, "you often end up with films that are perfectly crafted but don't take many risks. Every figure serves a prescribed function, like cogs in a machine." Min-tae defies such neat categorization. "He's violent, but I never tried to rationalize it. That's simply his mode of existence -- his violence isn't a moral choice but a form of discourse." His hard-boiled performance bears out this philosophy -- a force that moves through scenes with the inexorable momentum of natural law, his brutality executed with spectacular resourcefulness and an almost meditative precision. "What's interesting is that the scariest people I've met in real life are the ones who don't show their emotions," he adds. "They don't shout or glare -- they're calm, controlled and dangerous. That's what I wanted for Min-tae." Shot on the heels of the COVID pandemic across Gangwon Province -- from the rickety stairways in back alleys to industrial dockyards -- the film eschewed studio artifice for on-location shooting. "When you're on a set, it might look good on camera, but you know it's just plywood behind you," Ha says. "This took me back to the days of 'The Yellow Sea': gritty, on-location shoots where anything could happen." What results is a work that hurtles forward with raw momentum, its scenes blurring past like abstract impressions through the rain-streaked glass. The plot's porousness is, make no mistake, almost criminal, turning virtually every narrative device -- including Ho-ryeong's prophetic novel -- into a mere MacGuffin. Viewed strictly as genre cinema, it registers less as a coherent thriller than a nebulous cloud of brutal set pieces -- a freewheeling showcase for Ha's established noir persona. Yet this incompleteness, less by design than accident, works in the film's favor, creating a strangely exhilarating moral vacuum where all motivations remain inscrutable and viewer's sympathy need not gain purchase. It is an amoral universe whose ruthless mechanics extend beyond Min-tae's psychopathic brutality: not a single character provides sufficient ethical currency for viewers to invest in — not even Moon-young, who slips away into the night with her daughter in tow, perpetually hunted by a circus of violent madmen. "Min-tae grew up without parents, raising his younger brother like a father would," Ha says. "His idea of family and loyalty is twisted. He thinks protecting someone means using force, because that's all he knows." The film, in effect, luxuriates in destruction while remaining oddly bound to the structural confines of a potboiler. In this world, Min-tae exists as pure phenomenon, his encounters with both gangsters and law enforcement alike producing an endless series of consequence-free carnage — a savage vitality that Ha kept circling back to with an almost intuitive recognition. "Filming was like diving into the deep end," he says, "a headlong rush without second-guessing." "Like Min-tae himself, we simply plunged forward. That's what made it so electric."
South China Morning Post
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Ha Jung-woo on ‘tremendous anger' behind his new film Nocturnal
Published: 7:15am, 28 Jan 2025 By Baek Byung-yeul Korean actor Ha Jung-woo describes his upcoming thriller Nocturnal as a raw and intense take on the familiar theme of revenge, and promises that its director, Kim Jin-hwang, will bring a fresh perspective. 'The revenge plot isn't new, but I believe that even the same theme can provide new enjoyment depending on how the works change in form and background,' Ha said in a recent interview. He expressed great interest in the director's unique vision, which was a significant factor in his decision to take on the project. Ha in Seoul for a screening of Nocturnal. The actor sites director Kim Jin-hwang's fresh perspective as a key reason he decided to get involved in the project. Photo: WireImage 'I was drawn to Kim. His personal experiences are woven into the script, and I was intrigued by his attitude towards the characters in the film,' the 46-year-old actor explained.
