There Amanda Jones was, living in her hometown of Watson, Louisiana, working as a middle school librarian in the school she once attended—an unremarkable and happy life. Then, everything changed. On a mid-July evening in 2022, Jones gave a short, powerful speech against censorship at her local public library’s board meeting. Four days later, she
Month: August 2024
Months ago, Bad Boys: Ride or Die rocked the box office, a development that solidified its place as one of the major blockbusters on the 2024 movie schedule. It’s easy to understand why the film has proven to be such a hit with audiences. The film features an impeccable cast led by Will Smith and
Ari Lehman, widely known for portraying the first on-screen version of Jason Voorhees as a child, has many other sides. For instance, he composes music and fronts a metal band called First Jason, which just happens to be opening for Ice Nine Kills at the upcoming Silver Scream Con. Beyond that, he’s a genuinely nice
The Mysterines have cancelled their upcoming UK and EU tour. READ MORE: The Mysterines live in Liverpool: a raucous return for hometown heroes The Liverpool grunge-rock four-piece were due to kick off a string of autumn shows in Dublin on October 18. However, today (August 31) they’ve announced that the dates won’t be going ahead. In
Brazil’s telecommunications regulator said on Friday it was suspending access to Elon Musk’s X social network in the country to comply with an order from a judge who has been locked in a months-long feud with the billionaire investor. The popular social media platform missed a court-imposed deadline on Thursday evening to name a legal
Countries where English is the official language have a lot in common due to their shared British colonial history – but a new study has found that life expectancy varies greatly between Anglophonic nations. What’s more, one nation in particular – Australia – appears to stand head and shoulders above the rest in terms of
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom just got a fresh trailer, and it’s offered us our first look at Zelda in her swordfighter form, which sees her turn blue, da ba dee da ba di, and start stabbing away at the baddies, as part of her war on the colour purple. There’s not long
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Night Of The Screaming House!” Dracula has kidnapped the daughter of vampire hunter, Quincy Harker. Now Frank Drake and his team of motley slayers must infiltrate the vampire’s newest sanctuary, known only as Whispering Hell. While they race through the fog-covered suburbs of eastern London, Dracula makes
A pair of moderate releases with a handful of docs and titles in limited release topline an end-of-summer specialty market. Labor Day weekend can be slow and indie openings are up against few new wide releases (Afraid, Reagan) and holdovers from Deadpool & Wolverine to Inside Out 2. Meanwhile, the Venice film festival, with Telluride
Hollywood comes home when MaXXXine arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on October 8 from Lionsgate in association with A24. Writer-director Ti West brings his trilogy — which began with X and continued with Pearl — to a close with Mia Goth once again in the lead. Special features include: The Belly of
A$AP Rocky has shared a zany video for new song “Tailor Swif,” finally released after leaking in 2022. Directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, and filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, two months before the Russian invasion, the video presents a surreal tapestry of bathroom hijinks, canine chaperones, airborne vehicles, and urban pandas and dolphins—soundtracked by
Apple and chip giant Nvidia are reportedly in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that could value the ChatGPT maker above $100 billion (roughly Rs. 7,870 crore), according to media reports on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal first reported on Apple’s interest, citing sources, while Bloomberg News reported on
Warp drives have a long history of not existing, despite their ubiquitous presence in science fiction. Writer John Campbell first introduced the idea in a science fiction novel called Islands of Space. These days, thanks to Star Trek in particular, the term is very familiar. It’s almost a generic reference for superliminal travel through hyperspace.
NASA has assembled a collection of six instruments it wants to get to the lunar surface, and it has turned to Texas-based Intuitive Machines to do it. The latest award in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is valued at a whopping $116.9 million. The mission will aim to land the NASA payloads near
Talia Ryder, Noah Jupe, Whitney Peak, and Deacon Phillippe could join the cast. The long-gestating adaptation of 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank may have found its ensemble cast. On Friday, it was reported that Talia Ryder (Do Revenge), Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place), Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl), Jack Dylan Grazer (It) and newcomer Deacon Phillippe are
We may remember Amy Poehler for being one of Parks and Recreation’s funniest cast members, lending her voice to the Inside Out movies and her best SNL presidential impressions of Hillary Clinton. However, we also can’t forget when she played Regina George’s “Cool Mom” in Mean Girls. Considering Poehler was such a standout in the
Quentin Tarantino, 2007. ©Weinstein Company LLC/Courtesy Everett Collection Quentin Tarantino is a die-hard fan of horror cinema and understands exactly how to craft a proper scare. I only wish he would lean into the genre more often. The director has only made one proper horror movie to date (Death Proof) and he’s been threatening to
André 3000 has shared ‘Listening To The Sun’, a full-length film featuring the music of his 2023 experimental flute album ‘New Blue Sun’. READ MORE: Listen to Romy and Sampha team up to cover André 3000’s ‘Me & My (To Bury Your Parents)’ The OutKast rapper dropped the surprise project in November last year, marking his first
Realme 13 Pro+ 5G was unveiled in India on July 30 alongside the Realme 13 Pro 5G. The handset is powered by a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 SoC paired with up to 12GB of RAM. It carries a 6.7-inch full-HD+ AMOLED screen, a 50-megapixel triple rear camera unit, and a 32-megapixel selfie shooter. Initially, the handset was available
We’ve long thought all great white sharks belonged to a single, global species of long-distance swimmers. Advances in computing and gene sequencing by an international team of researchers have now revealed groups in the north Pacific, southern Pacific and Indian Ocean, and north Atlantic and Mediterranean are surprisingly distinct. Separated from each other up to
The Castlevania series has a rich history on Nintendo consoles ever since the original game came first to the Japanese Famicom Disk System way back in 1986, and then to the NES a year later. There may be a significant release or two from Konami’s vampire-killing catalogue still missing from Nintendo platforms (we’re looking at
The Witcher 4 is probably a PS6 and next Xbox game. A new update out of Polish developer CD Projekt Red has shed light on the release of The Witcher 4, the tentative placeholder name for the next installment in The Witcher series. To this end, it looks like The Witcher 4 will be a
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Lake Forest College and is working towards a master’s
Similar to how people went on vacation with revenge as Covid simmered down, so did they return to cinemas this summer. Even though this season’s domestic box office take of $3.6 billion, per Comscore, is roughly a half-billion lighter than last summer’s $4.09 billion, chalk that up largely to a Marvel movie missing from the
It was about two decades ago that we met Australian outback serial killer Mick Taylor played by John Jarratt in the movie Wolf Creek. He returned for the sequel in 2013 and once again for the TV series in 2016-2017. He’s back once again in Wolf Creek: Legacy, a third installment to the popular slasher
The Brat musician joins Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman in the cast of Gregg Araki’s film View original source here.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) held its 47th annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday. During the conference, RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani addressed the stakeholders of the company. Ambani spoke about the advancements the company is making in the fields of 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence, the growth of its telecommunications subsidiary Jio, and more.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) held its 47th annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday. During the conference, RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani addressed the stakeholders of the company. Ambani spoke about the advancements the company is making in the fields of 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence, the growth of its telecommunications subsidiary Jio, and more.
WASHINGTON — A veteran NASA astronaut and rookie Russian cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station in September as the downsized crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, a ripple effect of problems with Boeing’s Starliner. NASA announced Aug. 30 that Nick Hague will serve as commander of Crew-9, joined by mission specialist Aleksandr
In a new interview with Game Reactor, Yoshi-P, the acclaimed director behind the hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, has said that the development team is working on and making progress on bringing the game to “Nintendo consoles.” This is most likely for the successor to the Nintendo Switch, which is set to be revealed by
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