Fired from her lackluster job as an adjunct professor of writing, and on the verge of needing to move back in with her parents, Zelu has lost control of her life. Because she’s disinclined to pick up the pieces in a way that will satisfy her family, a Nigerian American dynasty for whom being exceptional
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Fanhome, the leader in subscription-based collections and models, expands its catalog of officially licensed Marvel products with the release of the Iron Spider build-up model. The new subscription recreates the custom suit created by Tony Stark to deliver a much more sophisticated and powerful version of Peter Parker’s original Spider-Man outfit. The Fanhome Iron Spider
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Disaster movies used to be all the rage. Back in the 1990s, movie theaters were chock full of one disaster epic after another. Armageddon was a sensation, Independence Day remains an annual watch for many, and both Tommy Lee Jones and Pierce Brosnan duked it out with killer volcanoes in Volcano and Dante’s Peak respectively. Disaster movies used to be the juggernauts for
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NEW ORLEANS – Weather intelligence startup Tomorrow.io unveiled NextGen, a global-precipitation forecasting platform, Jan. 14 at the American Meteorological Society annual meeting here. NextGen ingests data from Boston-based Tomorrow.io satellites to provide global precipitation forecasts with a resolution of 2.5 kilometers, updated every five minutes. With NextGen, Tomorrow.io is filling “critical radar gaps worldwide” to
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Nintendo has removed individual Retro Studios employee names in the end credits in the soon-to-be-released Nintendo Switch version of Donkey Kong Country Returns. The end credits for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD now simply say “Based on the work of the original development staff” and credit the current team at Forever Entertainment. A similar thing happened
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Eggs Got Legs! — or Love Conquers All! Somewhere inside the Bermuda Triangle, miles below the surface of Monster Island, Reed Richards and his “wife” have the combined strength of the New Fantastic Four, Skrull commandos, and moloid army bearing down on them. Reed and “Susan” only
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Director Dutch Marich’s Horror in the High Desert trilogy serves as a reminder that the found footage genre is not dead and if handled correctly can overcome fatigue within the genre. It’s not like Marich is re-inventing the category, but he knows how to make it believable and most importantly, scary. He uses the documentary
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The Bible’s lex talionis – “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” (Exodus 21:24-27) – has captured the human imagination for millennia. This idea of fairness has been a model for ensuring justice when bodily harm is inflicted. Thanks to the work of linguists, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, researchers know
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Khruangbin have announced another tour in support of their 2024 album A la Sala. The Houston-based funk and psych trio will start their long run in Christchurch, New Zealand on February 20 and then head to the U.S. and Europe for dozens of additional concerts. Find their complete list of new tour dates below. Following
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iPhone users are experiencing a surge in so-called “smishing” attacks that encourage them to disable basic iMessage protections, according to the cybersecurity news site BleepingComputer. Once Apple’s scam guardrails are removed, users are more susceptible to suspicious links that extract personal information from their phones. Smishing—short for SMS phishing—involves text messages that appear to be
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While I try to be a good librarian on this site, sometimes WordPress makes it difficult to sort older posts. Since I’ve just reviewed Fantastic Four #1 this week, all of my previous Volume 01 posts need to be put into order (for sorting). So, I shifted all of the post dates for the older
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UPDATED: This has been a solid holdover weekend with milestones crossed and neared for the major titles in release as we come off a really strong end to 2024. But it’s bittersweet as we cannot ignore the fire devastation in the home of Hollywood. My thoughts go out to you all who have been affected,
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Written and directed by Leslie Stevens, 1966’s Incubus is a weird piece of horror history. It’s atmospheric, even meditative at times. It’s gothic, it’s a fairy tale, it’s folk horror and it’s a morality play. It reaches toward Bergman, though it doesn’t quite get there. Still, it’s easy to get lulled into the dreamscape of
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Image: Maksym Vysochanskyy trading as IndieGames3000 This year marks five years since the last mainline Animal Crossing game launched. Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out at the perfect time and made an absolutely huge splash worldwide. But with its fifth anniversary fast approaching, we’re sure lots of fans are champing at the bit for a
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