People attending recent screenings of Backrooms, the upcoming feature adaptation of Kane Parsons’ viral analog horror series, were surprised to spot an interesting name in the credits: Producer Osgood Perkins. Perkins reportedly played an important behind-the-scenes role on the film, acting as a mentor to Parsons throughout the production. At just 19 years old, Parsons
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PinkPantheress has released a dizzying, extremely British video for her Fancy That single “Girl Like Me.” The Lauzza-directed short opens with an introduction by the British institution Davina McCall—the TV personality who rose to ubiquity as the host of Big Brother—before PinkPantheress dances through a London-themed, cut-and-paste assemblage of moving walkways and synchronised dances, interspersed
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WASHINGTON — MDA Space is continuing work on a robotic arm for the lunar Gateway while it discusses the future of the project with the Canadian Space Agency. In a May 7 earnings call to discuss the company’s first-quarter financial results, MDA executives said they are pressing ahead with Canadarm3 despite NASA’s announcement in March
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week, including the new trailer for The Odyssey, Oprah’s next book club pick, and more. Watch the Official New Trailer for The Odyssey Last month, we were hearing about all
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I love coming-of-age stories, but Mixtape stands out even among my favorites for how well it nails its earnest, whimsical tone, treating life milestones with grave sincerity. Its stellar writing, concise runtime, and inspired use of its licensed soundtrack make it an instant classic and a heartfelt trip down memory lane. Mixtape has an incredible
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When it comes to ranking the best Witcher games, you’d be surprised by how many there are to sift through. I certainly was, and have spent the past three days getting my head around the many spin-offs to CD Projekt Red‘s mainline RPG series. They all take place at different points in and around the
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Muna just released their new album, Dancing on the Wall, and now they’ve lined up a sprawling run of shows across the U.S., UK, and Europe. The Gets So Hot Tour officially kicks off September 17 in Phoenix and runs through November. Muna will also spend the summer hitting festivals including Lollapalooza and D.C.’s All
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WASHINGTON — A spacecraft designed to raise the decaying orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite has passed environmental tests ahead of a launch as soon as June. NASA and spacecraft manufacturer Katalyst Space said May 8 that Katalyst’s Link spacecraft successfully completed a series of environmental tests at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. That work
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Kneecap have scored the highest UK chart position for an Irish language album with their new album ’Fenian’ and will donate sales profits to charity. The West Belfast band’s second studio album was released on May 1, the follow-up to their celebrated debut ‘Fine Art’, and it features collaborations with Kae Tempest, Radie Peat and Fawzi. On
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First-party Xbox Game Studios developer Double Fine, the team behind the long-running Psychonauts series, has filed a petition to unionize under the Communications Workers of America (CWA). If recognized by parent company Microsoft and if a contract is ultimately ratified, the union will include all regular part-time and full-time employees of Double Fine, totaling 42
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By Howard Bloom The current war with Iran is a necessity.  Iran is a danger to you and me.   Iran has been working on nuclear weapons for 35 years.  Some say Iran already has The Bomb. Others admit Iran has enough fissile material for from sixty to 90 bombs.  And Iran has been working on intercontinental ballistic
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The Secrets of the Abbey Jean-Luc Bannalec’s Commissaire Dupin books, set on the windswept coast of Brittany, have been bestsellers since the series’ inception in 2012. The Secrets of the Abbey is the latest and arguably best thus far. When a magpie flies into the house of an elderly, wealthy Bretonne, the woman regards it
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WASHINGTON — Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks. Osvaldo Almirón Riveros, head of the Paraguayan Space Agency, signed the Accords in a ceremony in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, attended by a U.S. Embassy official and a representative of the
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