For fans of a certain age-old age, the video store is a haven of a bygone era. For fans with even more gray hairs, they remember video stores littered with shot-on-video movies. These movies weren’t produced by major studios and were usually shot on whatever qualifies as less than a shoestring budget. Before YouTube was
Discovering a new species and placing it on the tree of life is a big responsibility. I have been fortunate to name four species from some of the deepest, most remote and least sampled parts of the ocean. Each new species helps us uncover how life thrives in the hadal zone (anywhere deeper than 6,000
Just about every week there’s a blockbuster round coming out of South America, but in certain countries such as Ecuador, things have been more hush hush. However, Kushki, a Quito-based fintech, is bringing attention to the region with today’s announcement of a $86 million Series B and a $600 million valuation. “We never thought that
Paul Anka‘s gained a new generation of fans thanks to one of his classic songs being used for TikTok’s “Silhouette Challenge” … and he’s capitalizing by re-releasing it, with the help of Olivia Newton-John. TMZ’s got the first look at the music video for Anka’s “Put Your Head on My Shoulder,” featuring the “Grease” star
When your local library does not have the book you want in their collection, what do you do? For most folks, particularly if they’re searching without the aid of a library staff member, the go-to solution is to purchase the book. But even then, costs can sometimes be prohibitively expensive or unjustifiable. Fortunately, many libraries
Thanks to a drive-in double-feature with box office champ A Quiet Place Part II, the 2013 Brad Pitt vehicle World War Z is one of the top ten films at the U.S. box office for the week ending on May 31, 2021. The double-feature, which took place at 80 drive-in theaters around the country, raised
If you’re a fan of everything Warhammer, look sharp: The Skulls for the Skull Throne event returns with a punchier name, Warhammer Skulls, tomorrow (June 3). The week-long celebration of Warhammer kicks off with a stream that’s guaranteed to feature new announcements from the studios behind games like Total War: Warhammer 3 and Darktide, to name but
WandaVision composer, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, wishes the series could have included a dance scene reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video. Anderson-Lopez is known for her work creating songs alongside her husband, Robert Lopez, for Disney’s Frozen, Coco and Frozen 2. The pair was once again tasked by Disney when asked compose WandaVision‘s theme song, as well as the popular
Ahead of the show’s final season premiering this coming August, we’ve learned that “The Walking Dead: The Complete Tenth Season” is first getting its Blu-ray release this summer. The Whisperer war is upon us when Season Ten of “The Walking Dead” arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital) and DVD July 20 from Lionsgate, a press release sent
Henry “Nacho” Laun — the extreme eating star of “Wahlburgers” and one of Mark Wahlberg‘s OG entourage members — has died after suffering a medical emergency a couple weeks ago … TMZ has learned. Sources close to Laun tell us he passed away Tuesday at a Massachusetts hospital. We broke the story … the reality
The legacy of one of the brightest stars in the physics firmament has been secured. Around 10,000 pages of the writings and other papers of legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will be preserved in a special archive by the Cambridge University Library in the UK. This will include a digitization project, to be made freely
Even as remote software uptake has boomed during the pandemic, certain workflows have gotten prioritized for specialized toolsets while other team members have been left piecemealing their productivity. Employees designing the copy that directs users and encapsulates company messaging have been particularly forgotten at times, say the founders of Ditto, a young startup building software
News Perfume Genius Announces 2021 Tour The run of September dates includes shows with Tame Impala and Death Cab for Cutie By Noah Yoo June 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius, photo by Camille Vivier Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius is headed back out on the road. Mike Hadreas will perform a show at Henry Miller
Disney+’s live-action 101 Dalmatians spinoff Cruella drew 686K U.S. households over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend according to today’s figures from Samba TV. It’s a number that’s 39% less than the 4-day Labor Day traffic for another Disney+ Premier title, Mulan, which pulled in 1.12 million U.S. households over Sept. 4-7, 2020. Both titles were available
Perspective drawing of “Nintendo Gallery” (tentative name) (Image: Nintendo) Nintendo has announced its Uji Ogura Plant and the land surrounding the building is being transformed into a new gallery to showcase the company’s development history and philosophy. The gallery will be tentatively known as the “Nintendo Gallery” and renovations are expected to be completed within
Licensed games used to get a lot of flack for their shoddy production value and rushed development cycles, but that doesn’t mean they were all bad. Sometimes, passionate developers and the clever use of beloved IPs can be enough to overcome limited budgets and impossible deadlines, resulting in quite a few hidden gems even in
Are you ready to dial up the nostalgia? Paramount+ is set to revisit iCarly on June 17 when the highly-anticipated reboot debuts on the streaming service. The new iteration picks up 10 years after the classic Nickelodeon show ended and follows original influencer Carly Shay and her friends navigating work, love, and family. Miranda Cosgrove,
A 2,300-year-old ceramic jar filled with the bones of a dismembered chicken was likely part of an ancient curse to paralyze and kill 55 people in ancient Athens, archaeologists say. The finding reveals new evidence for how people tried to use “magic” in the city. They discovered the jar, along with a coin, beneath the floor
Polish computational chemistry outfit Molecule.one has raised $4.6M to expand its quest to bring theoretical drug molecules to reality. Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. Molecule.one went on stage at Disrupt SF 2019’s Startup Battlefield, where they explained the
DaBaby is being questioned by Miami police following a shooting late Monday night that left 2 people injured — one critically … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement tells us … cops interviewed the rapper as part of their investigation into the incident, which went down near several popular Miami Beach restaurants just before midnight. We’re
Dungeons & Dragons star Rege-Jean Page has provided fans with a promising tease about the upcoming movie’s script. Last month, Variety profiled Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page about his meteoric rise in Hollywood, which included a few bits about his upcoming role in the in-production Dungeons & Dragons movie. Variety published another article today that includes
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are heading back to the big screen, though it won’t be the versions we saw in 2014 and 2016. Instead, it was announced last year an animated reboot centered on the heroes in a half shell is on the way, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg attached to produce. Cut
E3 2021 will soon be upon us later this month and it is either going to be a great digital event or a more muted show due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has hampered game development across the globe. The event kicks off on Saturday 12th June and the final day is Tuesday 15th
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (read Meagan’s review) is coming to theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021, and the final trailer today previews the return of Ed and Lorraine. This time around, they’re heading into the 1980s for one hell of a wild true story… “The Devil Made Me Do It reveals
A newly discovered repeating fast radio burst (FRB) named FRB 20200120E is deepening the mystery of these already deeply mysterious space signals. Astronomers have tracked its location to a galaxy 11.7 million light-years away, which makes it the closest known fast radio burst, 40 times closer than the next-closest extragalactic signal. But it also appears
Great news for typo-prone tweeters: Twitter Blue, a $2.99 monthly subscription, appears to be coming soon to a Timeline near you. Two weeks ago, researcher Jane Manchun Wong first reported that Twitter’s new subscription service is in the works. But yesterday, Twitter’s iOS App Store listing updated to list Twitter Blue as an in-app purchase,
News Parquet Courts to Reissue Debut Album American Specialties A mastered redux of their hard-to-find debut comes with a new zine from the band’s Andrew Savage By Jazz Monroe May 31, 2021 Facebook Twitter Parquet Courts, photo by Daniel Boczarski/Redferns via Getty Images Facebook Twitter Parquet Courts will reissue their hard-to-find debut album, American Specialties,
Just weeks after news broke of a graphic novel based on Threat Level Midnight, the fictional film directed by Michael Scott (Steve Carell) on The Office, last week, via a YouTube announcement from actor Jay Jackson, who played Pawnee’s local news anchor Perd Hapley on Parks and Recreation, that Mouse Rat will release a full-length
New fan art for Toy Story shows what the characters could look like in a live-action movie. Toy Story made waves at the box office when it was released in 1995 and put Pixar on the map. The success of the first fully computer-animated movie launched one of Pixar’s most popular franchises resulting in three sequels.
There are some games that need no introduction, and after reaching iconic status since the first release way back in 1985, Ghosts ‘N Goblins is one such game. After wowing the gaming audiences for decades since, it’s now time to reboot the legendary series as Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection begins to raise the dead on