Month: January 2023

News Beyoncé Gives First Performance Since 2020 at Dubai Hotel Opening The hourlong concert was attended by over 1,000 people, including the singer’s family By Madison Bloom January 22, 2023 Facebook Twitter Beyoncé, January 2023 (Mason Poole/Parkwood Media/Getty Images for Atlantis The Royal) Facebook Twitter On Saturday night, January 21, Beyoncé performed during the grand
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Refresh for latest…: It’s now official, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has become the sixth movie ever to cross the $2B mark worldwide. It is also the filmmaker’s third to hit the milestone, alongside Titanic and the original Avatar. The mega-achievement was presaged ahead of the weekend with the global gross on the
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Is the 21st century “an epoch in which games and play are the model for how we interact with culture and each other”? Designer and professor Eric Zimmerman thinks so. At the very least, games can provide an extraordinarily useful way to learn by doing. In The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and
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The horror genre has always been an excellent vehicle for metaphors for grief and trauma. After all, what better genre is there to take our emotional monsters and make them literal? We’ve seen a rise in these types of films over the past decade, with particular standouts being films like The Babadook (review), Hereditary (review) and Relic (review).
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Jack “King” Kirby is a legend in the comic book world. For the uninitiated, he was the biggest artist working when Stan “The Man” Lee was writing practically everything that came out of Marvel Comics. He was part of the creative team behind the X-Men, Captain America, The Avengers, Thor, and so many other amazing
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Although sheepshearing typically involves a bit of frustrated grunting from shearer and shearee alike, when done right, the act can resemble a ballet: two bodies bending and swooping in sync, the whirring of wickedly sharp clipper blades their only accompaniment. As readers will learn in Peggy Orenstein’s illuminating, informative and often funny Unraveling: What I
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Lisa Marie Presley‘s kids were always on her mind. After all, the singer, who died at age 54 on Jan. 12 after a possible cardiac arrest, once described herself as “ferociously protective” of her children: daughter Riley Keough, son Benjamin Keough and twin girls Finley and Harper Lockwood. “I just smother them in love,” she told Healthy Living back in 2014. “They
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The horror genre has always been an excellent vehicle for metaphors for grief and trauma. After all, what better genre is there to take our emotional monsters and make them literal? We’ve seen a rise in these types of films over the past decade, with particular standouts being films like The Babadook (review), Hereditary (review) and Relic (review).
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News Aphex Twin Teases First Show Since 2019 A mysterious website has fans speculating that the enigmatic producer could take the stage at London’s Field Day in August By Rob Arcand January 20, 2023 Facebook Twitter Aphex Twin at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2011 (Kristy Sparow/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Aphex Twin could be coming back
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The nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced this week, with the annual awards honoring media for “fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.” Of note here in the world of horror, Don Mancini‘s “Chucky” series, the second season of SYFY and USA’s hit series, has been nominated this year. “Chucky,”
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This film about a Jersey guy brimming with toxic masculinity was Gordon-Levitt’s feature writing and directing debut. He starred as the title character, with Scarlett Johansson as the woman of his dreams, who still can’t match his distorted, X-rated expectations. “That’s what I always wanted,” he says. “Direct a movie that plays Sundance. It was a life
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For their entire lives, Penny and Tate have orbited each other reluctantly. Since before Penny and Tate were born, their moms, Lottie and Anna, have been attached at the hip, and this permanent package deal means constant, unwanted proximity for the two daughters. See, Penny and Tate are not friends. They’re also not not friends.
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