Every year, Barnes and Noble selects a list of the best books of the year in various categories as well as their overall best book of the year. The lists are out now, but the Book of the Year won’t be announced until November 15th. Until then, they’ve shared their finalists for you to peruse.
Month: October 2024
Keenan “Special” Bristol, CEO and Founder of “Music Brings Life”, proudly presents a heartwarming film dedicated to bringing awareness of the shortage of blood donations for victims facing sickle cell disease by African-American, Latino and Caribbean donors. The movie is entitled “Students Are Heroes: A Sickle Cell Warrior’s Story.” All proceeds support Music Brings Life’s High
Everyone will begin returning to the movies just before Thanksgiving on November 22 as Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator II just hit tracking with respective openings of $80M+ and $65M. Both have potential for upside, and we won’t know if we’re within a Barbenheimer vortex until it happens — though that would not be a
If you’re looking for something chilling and quick to watch on this lovely Halloween, look no further than Josh Folan‘s chilling found footage short Grave Robbing For Morons II: Dead by Dawn. Yes, the title may make you giggle, but between the analog aesthetic and the matter-of-fact tone, there’s something incredibly unsettling about the short
Halsey has revealed an incident they experienced in which a “powerful” music executive went through her nudes without consent. The ‘Without Me’ singer – who uses she/they pronouns – appeared as a guest on the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast and opened up about the disturbing incident in which a music executive
Apple could shake up its iPhone lineup next year by introducing a new iPhone 17 Slim (or Air) model, according to recent reports. While it’s currently unclear whether Apple will replace its Plus model with a new ‘Slim’ model, a South Korean publication reports that Samsung is also considering the launch of a ‘slim’ Galaxy S25 handset. This
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, locking in future temperature increases for years to come, the United Nations warned Monday. Levels of the three main greenhouse gases – the climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – all increased yet again last year, the UN’s weather and climate agency
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper!” Greenwich Village, on the corner of 4th and MacDougal, a crowd has gathered to watch the spectacle of Police officers cording off an area of apparent homicide. The young redheaded woman has been the fourth victim this month. As the Ambulance crew
Like all of its predecessors in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus is full of squishy, splatty, and generally horrid bits of sound. It’s a key part of the cinematic experience that makes the new horror movie a throwback delight – and perhaps the only thing gnarlier or grosser than the xenomorph action on screen are
A lot of times horror movie fans don’t listen to critics, and that makes sense because a lot of the time critics are wrong. But there is still that confirmation bias we hope to get once we see a movie we really liked and hope our favorite critic likes it too. 2024 brought us many
During a special concert in São Paulo, Brazil, in September, the Weeknd and Brazilian pop star Anitta debuted a new song called “São Paulo.” It’s now been officially released, along with a video directed by Freeka Tet. In the visual, Anitta is masked and pregnant, and her belly is more than a bit unusual. Find
5G network speeds of top telecommunications providers in India such as Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have declined significantly, according to a market analysis report. While Airtel emerged as India’s best 5G experience provider, courtesy of the fastest average 5G download and 5G upload speeds, Jio achieved a score of 66.5 percent and won the
SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup Viridian Space Corp. is developing an electric propulsion system for spacecraft in very low Earth orbit that scoops up air for plasma thrusters. The technology promises to extend the life of satellites and enable them to move around in orbit, Rostislav Spektor, Viridian CEO and former manager of the
The original Bayonetta launched in Japan on October 29, 2009, and with the series now celebrating its 15th anniversary, Mari Shimazaki, the artist who designed the title character, has now shared an artwork to X to mark the occassion. “Congratulations on the 15th anniversary of Bayonetta and the 2nd anniversary of Bayonetta 3! Sorry it’s
Over the weekend, Hasbro revealed new Transformers products at two events, the online HASBRO 1027 event and MCM London Comic Con. Across both events all reveals were from the TRANSFORMERS STUDIO SERIES. We’ll take a look at the 1027 reveals first, as they’re a bit more eagerly anticipated as it was the debut of the
Imax shares nosed higher in after-market trading, up over 3% on solid numbers, new installations, and a roaring good outlook by CEO Rich Gelfond. Content revenues of $30 million fell 32% year-over-year, up against Christopher Nolan’s phenomenon Oppenheimer — the company’s fifth highest grossing title of all time — in the year prior. Despite the decline, the
M3GAN is more than a toy, she’s family… and now she’s joining Mezco Toyz’s Living Dead Dolls family. The Model Three Generative Android stands 10″ tall and has five points of articulation. It’s packaged in a die-cut window box. “With her watchful gaze, this killer robot doll is dressed in her signature outfit: a gray-and-white
Ginger Root has been praised by fans after announcing his “first ever downgraded show” and being transparent about low ticket sales. The group’s frontman Cameron Lew took to Ginger Roots’ official social media accounts and shared a video announcing the new, smaller venue where their show in Los Angeles will now take place instead of
OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R are getting the OxygenOS 15 open beta update in India. The two phones are the first in the entire OnePlus lineup to get the Android 15-based operating system (OS) update. The new OS update will introduce a redesigned user interface, artificial intelligence (AI) features, and faster processing. It also integrates Android’s
Recent research on animal sleep behaviour has revealed that sleep is influenced by the animals around them. Olive baboons, for instance, sleep less as group sizes increase, while mice can synchronise their rapid eye movement (REM) cycles. In western society, many people expect to sleep alone, if not with a romantic partner. But as with
You know how Baldur’s Gate 3‘s mods were proving pretty popular since Patch 7 brought them to everyone? Well, that’s not slowed down, as Larian’s just revealed that 50 million have now been downloaded by players across all platforms since that point. That big figure might not yet include everything the studio suggested modders would
With his breakthrough 2014 novel, The Troop, which was one of the most acclaimed horror novels of the last decade, Nick Cutter established himself as a writer of propulsive, muscular, unrelenting journeys into terror. His latest book, The Queen, reaffirms his place as one of the genre’s most entertaining storytellers, delivering a creature feature and
We’re winding down to the final months of the 2024 movie schedule, and the first half of Wicked’s cinematic adaptation is poised to be, as Glinda herself might say, popular. The press cycle for Jon M. Chu’s film has been ramping up as people are starting to see the finished product, and fan anticipation continues
Halle Berry is an icon, there’s no doubt about that. She’s shaped contemporary cinema with her enigmatic performances and that’s no different in her latest film, Never Let Go, directed by horror master Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Crawl). In this post-apocalyptic thriller, Berry embodies a role unlike anything you’ve ever seen as a mother who
Denzel Curry is back with the new song “Still in the Paint,” produced by Charlie Heat and featuring Atlanta rappers Lazer Dim 700 and Bktherula. It comes with a music video directed by Ari Mairena-Dannon and set in a subway car. The visual also features a cameo from Atlanta royalty Waka Flocka Flame, whose “Hard
Snap Inc. is planning to introduce a “Simple” Snapchat app next year, the company CEO announced at the quarterly investors call on Tuesday. The company revealed that it added 37 million users daily active users globally in the third quarter (Q3) of 2024, taking the total to 443 million. Meanwhile, the fifth-generation Snapchat Spectacles, which
In the year 1181 CE, the sky exploded. Well, a part of the sky – a pinprick of nothing suddenly blossoming into visibility, a new, temporary ‘guest star’ in the constellation of Cassiopeia that astronomers in China and Japan watched and recorded for months. That star was a supernova, the violent eruption as a dead
Asus and G.Skill announced a world-record memory overclocking score, hitting DDR5-12112. The new record goes to well-known South Korean overclocking specialist SafeDisk, who has worked with Asus and G.Skill hardware to set and break numerous overclocking records in the past. The DDR5-12112 speed is impressive, considering that retail G.Skill Trident Z5 memory tops out at
The Hasbro Marvel team revealed several new products at MCM Comic Con in London, including new additions to the Marvel Legends Series line inspired by Marvel Studios’ upcoming film, Captain America: Brave New World including Captain America, Red Hulk, and Marvel’s Falcon.These are available for pre-order now on Hasbro Pulse and fan channel retailers. Marvel Legends Series Captain America(HASBRO | Ages 4
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