Month: December 2020

As we enter the throes of awards season more and more films are starting to make their qualifying runs in what is expected to be a very different kind of season. For starters, Searchlight Pictures is set to release Chloe Zhao’s buzzy pic of existential wanderlust Nomadland starring Frances McDormand for its virtual qualifying run
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Zola Jesus has shared a cover of the Armenian folk song “Krunk.” Proceeds from the Bandcamp exclusive single will go toward the Armenia Fund, which provides humanitarian aid during the ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan. Listen to “Krunk” below. “I first heard the song ‘Krunk’ (Crane) while listening to a collection of songs sung by Lousine
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David Fincher’s Mank features a number of actors playing icons of the 20th century – including not just Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz, but also Arliss Howard as studio founder Louis B. Mayer, Charles Dance as publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, Tom Burke as the legendary Orson Welles, Toby Leonard Moore as the brilliant David
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Snow White is the original Disney princess. Unbelievably, Snow White was released in 1937, and the film was the first full-length animated feature to ever grace screens. While this iconic film has aged, and many other princesses and movies have followed after, it is, without a doubt, an epic. The movie is beautiful, not only
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The latest Japanese sales charts are now in thanks to Japanese sales tracker Famitsu and it’s been a very interesting week for video game hardware. The best-selling platform was the Nintendo Switch family of systems, which shifted 145,178 units. Sony’s PlayStation 5 sold 40,459 units and Microsoft’s Xbox Series console sales are 42,891 and 3,684
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Todd Rundgren has announced a virtual tour. The 2021 Clearly Human virtual tour consists of 25 “geo-targeted” online shows, beginning February 14, 2021. Each performance will be filmed in a Chicago venue, but the shows will be “localized” to give fans the sense that it is occurring in their region. Indicators of location will include
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Aevum CEO Jay Skylus said Ravn X will be ready for operations within the next 18 months after it clears regulatory reviews. WASHINGTON — Small launch startup Aevum on Dec. 3 unveiled its Ravn X vehicle, a reusable drone aircraft and rocket combination designed to launch small payloads to orbit.  Ravn X has been years
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The writers of Once Upon A Time screwed over a lot of characters. Let’s just acknowledge that right now. It’ll save time. One of the characters treated the most miserably is Belle French, the Beauty to Rumplestiltskin’s Beast. Because let’s face it, that’s all she ever really was, and that’s the problem. When Belle was introduced
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Howard Bloom will be the keynote speaker at the December 2020 Terasem Colloquium on the “Law of Cosmist Persons,” focused on “transpartisan approaches to the intersection of space expansion, emerging technologies and human rights.”  Some people want to radically change the human condition with technology, become humans 2.0, and move to space. Others want things
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Ubisoft’s third open-world title in as many months has arrived, but Immortals Fenyx Rising on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One doesn’t take place in post-Brexit London or in the midst of a Viking invasion. Also available on PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, PC and Google Stadia, Immortals Fenyx Rising takes its’ inspiration from
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Chicago rapper G Herbo is facing federal charges including aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting a larger fraud scheme, as the Chicago Tribune reports and Pitchfork can confirm via court documents. The 14-count indictment alleges that Herbo was involved in a defrauding scheme alongside eight other defendants. Among the defendants is alleged ringleader Antonio
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