A little black box appears on health care and employment forms, census surveys and other official documents, requiring respondents to confine their racial identity to a single space that allows no fine distinctions. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. points out in his eloquent and powerful The Black Box: Writing the Race, such boxes are metaphors
Making a movie is hard work. There are so many moving parts that must come together to ensure a film is successful. One of the most crucial elements is a good script. Even a gifted director and a supremely talented cast can’t overcome a bad screenplay. Night Shift serves as proof that a poorly written script
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Apple is believed to be working on its lineup of foldable devices. While the Cupertino, California-based company has not divulged its plans for foldables, recent reports and filed patents suggest that the company is working on a foldable iPhone, iPad, and a large-display device, said to be a MacBook. Earlier this month, a report claimed
A nearby exploding star is due to offer a spectacular show that could outshine our North Star this year. The star, which is 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to burst in a gigantic explosion – known as a nova – in the coming months. NASA said in a statement that the once-a-lifetime event could
The latest edition of premier Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has arrived and Issue 1842 contains the first review of the intriguing Princess Peach: Showtime!. The four reviewers at Famitsu each gave the game 8/8/9/8 giving Princess Peach: Showtime! an overall score of 33/40. Here’s all the review scores from Weekly Famitsu Issue 1842: Outcast:
Indies in moderate-wide release claimed the nos. 6, 8 and 9 spots at the domestic box office led by Love Lies Bleeding. Kristin Steward toplines the Berlin-premiering film by Rose Glass that expanded nationwide, grossing $2.5 million for the weekend on 1,362 screens (up from five theaters opening week). The steamy crime thriller from A24
You can take your horror movie fandom to the next level with these actual props from some of your favorite films. Heritage Auctions is a collectibles auctioneer house selling movie memorabilia from classic movies. Keep in mind these things aren’t cheap, so unless you’ve got a surplus of money in your bank account you may
Yungblud has spoken to NME about his online spat with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, saying that he found it “quite funny” and branding it as “all fucking entertainment”. READ MORE: Yungblud tells us about his past, present, future and new festival BludFest The pair came to blows last year when Healy received criticism online for
Google Play Games was released for Windows in 2022, bringing a diverse lineup of select Android games to PC. Google’s gaming service, first announced in 2021, was launched in Beta in India last year, as well, offering optimised Android games for PC. Google recently announced that it will expand support for native PC games on
WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency’s network of sensor satellites in low Earth orbit — known as Tracking Layer Tranche 1 — will not include seven satellites made by Raytheon Technologies as originally planned. “SDA is reevaluating and considering re-scoping Raytheon’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer work,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement in response
Valve has announced Steam Families, a revamped program that allows players to create a group to share and play games with close family members. The program launches today in the Steam Beta Client and it replaces the Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View features. Steam Families can have up to six members, and joining
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “Red Sonja – She-Devil With A Sword” “The Temple Of Abomination!” Not many dare to travel the heavily forested region inside Nemedia known as the Darkwood. Only the bravest of warriors have explored there, less of them have ever returned to brag of their adventures. On this
Oscar night is known to have a pretty positive effect on many of the films nominated, and this years’ winners fared no differently. Not just the actors, directors, writers and producers, but also musicians such as Billie Eilish, who at 22 became the youngest ever two-time winner in the ceremony’s 96th year, and brother Finneas.
As someone who is obsessed with UFOS (or more recently known as UAPs) and the concept of extraterrestrials, I love a good documentary. Sightings have been on the rise since the 1940s, with the atomic bomb seemingly acting as a catalyst for new visitors. But what are these UFOs/UAPs? Is there an explanation or are
Jeff Lynne’s ELO, the modern incarnation of Jeff Lynne and his band Electric Light Orchestra, have announced a farewell tour. Dubbed The Over and Out Tour, the shows will take place across North America this fall, beginning on August 24 in Palm Desert, California and lasting on through to October 25 when the band will
The telecom regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) announced changes to its mobile number portability (MNP) rules last week. As per the latest amendment, if a SIM card has been swapped or replaced, the associated mobile number cannot be ported out to a different telecom operator for seven days. This is the ninth new amendment
Some 900,000 years ago, humans nearly went extinct. According to the results of a genomics study published last year, modern humanity’s ancestors were reduced to a breeding population of barely 1,300 individuals in a devastating bottleneck that brought us to the very brink of annihilation. Now, a new study has found that a mass migration
If you’re a Fallout fan and you would like a custom Xbox Series X, then you might want to check out the giveaway Xbox is currently holding.
Prime Video’s Fallout TV show is basically right around the corner, and as part of building hyper for the upcoming series, Xbox has teamed up with
The cult classic is officially getting revived by producer Barbara Crampton. The 1979 cult classic Tourist Trap has been rumored to be getting a reboot for years, with Bloody Disgusting confirming that those plans seem to finally become a reality and that genre icon Barbara Crampton will serve as a producer on the new project.
In a world where we have Hasbro X-Men Legends figures of Pretty Boy, Vertigo and Skullbuster, it’s really quite astonishing that one the greatest female X-villains of all time has never had a toy… until now. After fans’ hopes were dashed by the failed Ghost Rider Haslab, Cyclops’ first wife is finally here: the X-Men
With a solid offshore hold, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is closing in on $500M globally. The overseas weekend brought in $51.2M across 73 markets, a 40% drop versus last session (-37% excluding China). The international box office cume through Sunday is $289.4M, and worldwide the running total is $494.7M. The latter figure means the film
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In Flames, the feature debut for Pakistani-Canadian director Zarrar Kahn, mixes the texture of trauma with the cultural and political dynamics of conservative Pakistan with underwhelming results. Kahn’s film focuses on the aftermath of a patriarch dying, where the eldest daughter Mariam (Ramesha Nawal) and her mother (Bakhtawar Mazhar) exist in a state of flux.
Blade Runner Live has announced a number of new tour dates across the UK. The classic Ridley Scott sci-fi film’s Final Cut version is set to play in venues across the country in September accompanied by The Avex Ensemble, which will showcase the film’s classic Vangelis score. Starting at Glasgow’s SEC Armadillo on September 18,
Android 15 is still months away, but one of its new features has recently surfaced. Reportedly, users will be able to archive an app to save space on their smartphone, instead of completely uninstalling it. This app archiving feature is currently available in Google Play Store, for apps downloaded through the marketplace. However, there is
Sound waves fossilized in the maps of galaxies across the Universe could be interpreted as signs of a Big Bang that took place 13 billion years earlier than current models suggest. Last year, theoretical physicist Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa in Canada published a rather extraordinary proposal that the Universe’s currently accepted age
Microsoft and Google have been busy over the past year announcing new generative AI models for use in their latest products, while Apple has remained on the sidelines. It’s been reported that Apple would eventually wade into the fray in 2024 when it launches iOS 18 along with new iPhones in September. Still, it was
Jodie Foster began acting when she was 3 years old, and she’s been consistently working basically ever since. With two Oscras, many nominations and a stack of acting and directing credits under her belt, she has proven over and over again that she’s not only here for the long haul, but that she’s a shining
Sydney Sweeney is just coming off the success of her rom-com Anyone But You, but she’s ditching the love story for a horror story in her latest film Immaculate. Sweeney is taking Hollywood by storm, portraying everything from a love-lusting teenager in Euphoria to an accidental superhero in Madame Web. Although the latter got a lot