After spending the better part of the past 20 years cranking out live-action Transformers movies, the franchise has finally returned to its animated roots with the critically acclaimed Transformers One. The prequel, which explores the friends-to-enemies relationship shared by Optimus Prime and Megatron, is one of the most fun 2024 movie experiences I’ve had all
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Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves
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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team On a clear night with dark skies, you can catch a glimpse of the Milky Way, a luminous arc stretching across the horizon. To the unaided eye, its translucent clouds are simply beautiful splashes in the night, their grandeur inspiring hundreds of
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “Johnny Storm Gets Choked By An Alien In This One” Quarks! The one thing the new Sorcerer Supreme had no dominion over. Originally discovered in 1991, the WTF particle, later renamed the OMG particle to make the term more school science fair friendly, returned to Earth. There
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FRIDAY MIDDAY: Well, this wasn’t expected, however, it’s still early in the weekend. Transformers One is currently pacing lower than expected for a $26M opening off a $9.7M first day (inclusive of $3.36M previews) at 3,978 theaters. Clearly the Josh Cooley directed Paramount Hasbro Entertainment movie is skewing family, and the question remains whether more
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Bad Bunny has released “Una Velita,” a polemic addressing the fallout from Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean in 2017. It is his first solo song since last year’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana. Listen below. The release comes as Puerto Rico prepares to vote in
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TAMPA, Fla. — Executives discussing emerging space-based computing capabilities Sept. 20 called for stronger collaboration between policymakers and technology leaders to accelerate artificial intelligence’s societal benefits. Rika Nakazawa, chief of commercial innovation at Japanese telecoms giant NTT, proposed tech providers use private forums to educate policymakers and industry players about AI advancements.  This approach, she
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The Netflix anime for Capcom’s Devil May Cry series, teased last year, has received its first proper trailer and will debut in April 2025. Animated by Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra, X-Men ’97) and produced by Adi Shankar (Castlevania), Devil May Cry will see series protagonist Dante cut through hordes of demons with blades
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Fathom Events and Warner Bros.’ DC Studios are blasting off documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a favorite from Sundance, and Music Box has the festival’s Grand Jury Prize-winner In The Summers among a handful of solid new release including The Featherweight about boxer Willie Pep, and Who’s Afraid Of Nathan Law? a doc following the
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Starting tomorrow night, we may be getting the first reviews of one of the most anticipated indie horror films of 2024, Terrifier 3. No pressure right? It will have its first official audience screening at Fantastic Fest tomorrow (Sept. 20). That means, unless there is an embargo, reviews will start pouring in all over social
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The publishing industry tends to shine a spotlight on memoirs by transgender people who are already famous: actors, models, Jeopardy! champions. Their transition stories hit similar beats as those of other trans people, but the circumstances of their lives do not. This makes Frighten the Horses by Oliver Radclyffe stand out—the author was a typical
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Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024 sale begins on September 27 for all buyers. Ahead of the upcoming festive season, the e-commerce platform has announced deals on top smartphones. Buyers can grab the iPhone 13 for under Rs. 38,000 during the Amazon sale. Similar offers have also been introduced on other top smartphones such as the Samsung
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                                                                         By Howard Bloom Tuesday the world was shocked by one of the strangest war stories of the century.   Between 2,800 and 4,000 pagers went off in the hands or pockets of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon as the fighters went about their daily lives.  Yes, pagers, old fashioned pagers, exploded. In fact, pagers blew up from
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