Month: January 2023

If the viewer count for Robert Waldinger’s TED Talk “What Makes a Good Life” is any indication, a lot of us (43 million and counting) are interested in finding out how to live meaningful and happy lives. In The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, Waldinger and co-author Mark Schulz
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Nearly a year ago, Zoreen Kabani was consumed by an overwhelming sense of ennui. She felt stagnant, and, quite frankly, bored at the job she’d had for the last nine years. So, the 35-year-old financial advisor switched to another company—and then promptly quit two weeks later. It wasn’t where she worked, she realized, but what
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Sony Pictures will open Legendary Pictures’ The Machine on May 26.  The Peter Atencio directed movie takes place 23 years after the original story that inspired it. In the pic, comedian-star Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father (Mark Hamill) when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous
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News Peter Gabriel Shares New Song “Panopticom”: Listen Brian Eno plays synth on the track—the first taste of an album Gabriel has teased for two decades By Allison Hussey January 6, 2023 Facebook Twitter Peter Gabriel, October 2022 (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM) Facebook Twitter Peter Gabriel has shared a new single, his
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Ambitious historicals, creative rom-coms and a new wave of angsty romances are ready for their meet cute with readers in 2023. Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn Kensington | January 24 Kate Clayborn’s gorgeously written romances are a perfect counterbalance to the current wave of high-concept rom-coms. Down-to-earth and achingly realistic, her novels catch people
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When Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, stepped off the train this past September for her vacation in Tehran, she wore a loose, black chiffon headscarf with five strands of hair showing. The hair was a statement—the five strands symbolizing bold defiance of the regime, en route to a removal of the headscarf altogether. She
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While Jessica and Ben, who got engaged in September 2021, originally planned on a big wedding, life had other plans. “Ultimately, we decided that we needed more time to pull off the massive celebration that we thought was worthy for our family and friends,” Jessica explained. “Considering the timing we are looking for in terms
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Before booting up M3GAN for producers James Wan and Jason Blum, Gerard Johnstone made his feature directorial debut on Housebound, an awesome horror comedy that’s brimming with bloody fun. In the film, a young woman is forced to return to her childhood home after being placed under house arrest, where she suspects that something evil may
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Hollywood actor and filmmaker Edward Norton always thought his connection to Pocahontas was nothing more than “family lore.” In a new episode of the PBS show Finding Your Roots, an investigation into Norton’s genealogy discovered that Pocahontas, one of the most widely portrayed (and oft misrepresented) Indigenous women in history, is his 12th great-grandmother. Norton, who
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Bloody Disgusting’s M3GAN review is spoiler-free. From the moment M3GAN was introduced in trailers and danced her way into the internet’s collective hearts, the high-tech killer doll seemed destined for horror icon status. It helped that M3GAN reunited producer James Wan and screenwriter Akela Cooper, both responsible for 2021’s highly entertaining Malignant, and put Housebound’s Gerard Johnstone at the helm. The horror-comedy does live up to
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News Theophilus London Found “Safe and Well” After Being Reported Missing, Cousin Says The musician was located on Wednesday after friends and family filed a missing persons report last week By Madison Bloom January 5, 2023 Facebook Twitter Theophilus London (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Grey Goose). Facebook Twitter Theophilus London has been found
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Don’t say Disney isn’t a practitioner of theatrical windows: Their $821M-plus grossing Marvel Studios hit Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will finally land on Disney on Feb. 1, 82 days after its U.S. theatrical release. The movie opened on Nov. 11 to a stateside gross of $181.3M, $331.6M WW. While the previous Bob Chapek-led era of
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