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In Blumhouse’s Imaginary, coming out this week, a tattered old teddy bear hiding a spooky secret befriends a little girl. Things soon escalate from innocent to terrifying because let’s be real: a possessed toy is a scary as hell concept. This childhood nightmare is fueled by movies like Chucky from Child’s Play (a…Read more... In Blumhouse’s Imaginary, coming out this week, a tattered old teddy bear hiding a spooky secret befriends a little girl. Things soon escalate from innocent to terrifying because let’s be real: a…

USA’s former President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia Ann Obama has been stepping into Hollywood’s behind the camera world. She has already started taking efforts, and she is half way. Malia just completed her academics through Harvard University. Before entering into the glamorous world of Hollywood, Malia has taken a bold decision to drop her last name in the industry. In the Sundance Institute’s ‘Meet The Artist’ video, she was introduced as Malia Ann. She has removed her last name from her name to leave the legacy of…

Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former US President Barack Obama, has sparked curiosity with her recent decision to use her middle name, "Ann," professionally as she embarks on a career in Hollywood. Shortly before the premiere of her short film The Heart at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the up-and-coming filmmaker decided to adopt a new stage name, and the motive behind this choice may come as a surprise. President Barack Obama jokes with his daughter Malia Obama as they walk to board Air Force One.…

Things got pretty strange at the latest comedy show headlined by Matt Rife, a viral TikTok comic and an ex-boyfriend of Kate Beckinsale. During the event this past Sunday, February 4th, legendary adult film star Lisa Ann was arrested. The police arrested her for allegedly using her phone during the comedian's performance, which is strictly prohibited when it comes to a multitude of stand-up comedy venues. However, the former Brazzers Exxtra performer claims that she was wrongfully taken into custody and that the police…

She has been hailed as the literary queen of the Paris techno scene, whose cult novel Superstars immortalised the hedonism and rivalry of the sweat-drenched dancefloors and rave parties of 1990s France. But if the novelist Ann Scott, the winner of last month’s prestigious Renaudot prize, so poetically chronicled Paris’s generation X, from queer clubs to hard house, it was also because her own backstory gave a unique insight on what it was to be part of the underground.Sent by her well-meaning Paris parents to England’s…

Ann Patchett has once again demonstrated her exceptional writing skills in her ninth novel, which explores the complexities of family dynamics and relationships. Her calm and graceful literary approach draws the reader in without resorting to manipulative techniques. Tom Lake takes us to a cherry farm in America where a mother imparts her life history to her grown-up daughters, revealing the path that led her to her current situation. Cherry orchards near Woods Bay, Montana, USA. (Shutterstock) During the…

The UK’s first and so far only female poet laureate has written a sonnet to honour England’s Lionesses and their forerunners.Carol Ann Duffy, who said she grew up in a “footballing family”, pays homage to the trailblazers behind today’s team in We See You, a poem described as a “team talk” to the nation.It is “an ode to every woman from the pitch to the boardroom, the communities and grassroots who are helping to level the playing field”, said Duffy, who was poet laureate from 2009 to 2019.The poem was composed for the…

When she describes the moment she realized that CTE and football were connected, she sounds as shocked as she must have been back then.“My first football player was a 45-year-old man who played nine years in the NFL, and when I saw his brain, I was floored because it meant football was a risk for this degenerative disease,” says McKee, a homegrown Green Bay Packers fan. “I’d been watching for many years. They don’t look like they’re getting hurt, but of course it’s a slow degeneration that happens over many years.”Now…

Doomscrolling through the Netflix lineup during the streaming service’s early days in India, I stumbled upon Shetland. The crime show follows Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez, who, accompanied by Detective Sergeant Alison “Tosh” Macintosh, and Detective Constable Sandy Wilson, solves an astonishing number of crimes in the gorgeous subarctic archipelago of the same name in the Northern Isles of Scotland. PREMIUM The traditional burning of viking ship during the Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland.…

Ann Patchett’s fourth novel, the hostage drama Bel Canto, propelled her to literary fame in 2001, winning the Women’s prize for fiction. Two solid novels followed, Run and State of Wonder, but Patchett has produced the best fiction of her career in recent years, with the magnificent family dramas Commonwealth (2016) and The Dutch House (2019), a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. There has been nonfiction, too, with two essay collections, including These Precious Days (2021), the centrepiece of which is a Harper’s magazine…