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Anna Kendrick opens up about surviving ‘emotional abuse’: ‘Recovery has been so challenging’

Anna Kendrick has opened up about her personal experience of surviving “emotional abuse”.The 37-year-old actor stars in the forthcoming drama Alice, Darling, as the titular character who is trapped in an emotionally abusive relationship with her boyfriend, Simon (Charlie Carrick).Speaking to People in a recent interview, Kendrick shared how the film’s script resonated with her in a “personal” way.“Usually, it’s just I read a good script and I like the people involved, and I make the movie,” she explained. “And it was…

Doomsday Glacier Is ‘Holding on… by Its Fingernails’

An Antarctic iceberg at sunset.Photo: Sergio Pitamitz / VWPics (AP)The Thwaites Glacier, one of the most unstable parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet, could be gearing up for even more rapid changes than we previously thought. In a study published this week in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers have published new images of the ocean’s floor that they say provide valuable information about how the glacier may have retreated during past warm periods. The insights could give a scary warning about the future of sea level

The White Rock by Anna Hope review – Mexican gods, looters and miracles | Fiction

Just off the Pacific coast of Mexico, at San Blas in Nayarit, the White Rock juts up out of the sea. For the Wixárika people, who call it Tatéi Haramara or Mother Ocean, it is a sacred place. According to Wixárika cosmogony, when time began and there was nothing but boiling water covering the earth, the rock was the first solid object to be born and the origin of all life. For thousands of years the Wixárika have made pilgrimages to the site to offer sacrifices and to give thanks.In Anna Hope’s fourth novel, The White…

The White Rock by Anna Hope review – back to the very beginning | Fiction

Anna Hope’s fourth novel may begin in the cramped, sweaty confines of a van making its way through Mexico but its narrative sweep is capacious, straddling the experiences of a quartet of very different characters over more than200 years. It has ambition to match, musing on freedom and reciprocity, on the redemptive power of storytelling and the sustaining force of ritual. Climate anxiety features prominently, too, though it’s through the rock of its title that Hope strives to bind the book together.According to Wixárika…

Gravity Rush Movie in Development at Sony, With Director Anna Mastro Attached: Report

Gravity Rush is gearing up for a movie adaptation. As per Deadline, Sony's PlayStation Productions unit and Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions are developing a live-action adaptation of the 2012 Japanese sci-fi action video game. Anna Mastro (Secret Society of Second Born Royals) is attached to direct from a screenplay penned by Emily Jerome (Panopticon), her second writing gig. The Gravity Rush movie joins the ever-growing list of PlayStation titles set for a screen rendition, including The Last of Us, God of War, and…

Does the Modern Data Stack Value the “Stack” Over “Data”? | by Anna Geller | Aug, 2022

We hear more about tools than about using them the right wayPhoto by fabio on UnsplashThere have been many debates lately about unbundling or rebundling, which led to some arguments over who’s gonna win the market for any given piece of the data stack. But those debates hide an important fact: tools are just tools. In the end, how you use them is equally (if not more) important than your product and vendor choice.The main purpose of data tools is to help solve business problems, make better decisions, and improve existing…

Marvel To Announce New Hero Today, Anna Ameyama of T.E.S.T. Kitchen #1

| Later today, Marvel Comics will announce a new hero at San Diego Comic-Con, Anna Ameyama, star of the new Marvel comic book T.E.S.T. Kitchen. Launching on the 8th of August on Marvel's Infinity Comics digital distribution streaming app. A superhero comic book story – with a recipe in every issue. Along with all the requisite comic book action, each instalment will include a recipe. Smacks of a little of Comic Strip Presents: Detectives On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown and the Gourmet Detective… Marvel To Announce New…

‘Control’ writer Anna Megill promoted to narrative lead on ‘Fable’ reboot

The next Fable game, unofficially dubbed Fable 4 by fans online, has a new narrative lead in charge of its story, and they have a wealth of experience across a variety of games. Anna Megill joined Playground Games in February 2021 as a lead writer on the new Fable instalment, according to her Twitter and LinkedIn pages, but this week announced that she had been promoted into the role of narrative lead. Megill took to Twitter to announce the “exciting news” regarding the promotion and fans responded in kind with many…

Godzilla Series on Apple Adds Anna Sawai and Kiersey Clemons

Screenshot: Legendary/Warner Bros. PicturesBring on the Titans in this Godzilla spin-off from Legendary Television and Apple. Variety announced the ensemble for the untitled series will be led by The Flash’s Kiersey Clemons and Pachinko’s Anna Sawai, and will also feature Ren Watabe, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasowski.The show is set to follow “one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch” in the wake of the battle between Godzilla and the Titans

An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring following its IPO, after Arm China…

Anna Gross / Financial Times: An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring following its IPO, after Arm China transitioned its leadership — Chief executive Rene Haas lays out ambitious course of expansion for the UK chip designer despite tech downturn Anna Gross / Financial Times: An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring following its IPO, after Arm China transitioned its…