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Madame Web’s poor initial performance at the box office suggests that few people want to see it in a theater, let alone talk about it sight unseen. But there’s one aspect of it we should talk about anyway, because it’s so wild. Madame Web is a rarity in modern superhero cinema: a movie your friends might think you were making up if you described it to them without embellishment. Ironically, this makes it entirely faithful to the era of comic books it’s adapting. Not only does the comic book version of protagonist…

It is January 1985, and the Smiths are soon to release their political opus, Meat Is Murder. NME’s December 1984 interview teasing the album begins with the earnest question, “Rather than writing about yourself in the abstract, your new songs seem to isolate particular instances …” Students across the nation are going vegetarian at Morrissey’s lead. This is very serious stuff.Over in Smash Hits, Tom Hibbert’s first question for the singer is: “What’s the matter with you?” Moz’s persistent lethargy, Hibbert suggests, may…

Last updated: January 12th, 2024 at 11:08 UTC+01:00 The Odyssey Ark 2nd Gen is getting another price cut. The bonkers gaming monitor with a curved screen and Quantum Mini-LED is now 23% cheaper. If you want to buy the Odyssey Ark 2nd Gen outright, right now, you're looking at a discounted price of $2,300, down from $3,000. The same $700 discount also applies if you want to buy the curved gaming monitor on a 36-month payment plan through Samsung Financing. It is now $63.89 a month, down from $83.34. A huge monitor…

Katherine Siew, a Pasadena attorney, has never much followed baseball — until Shohei Ohtani grabbed her attention by signing with the Dodgers in a record-smashing 10-year, $700-million deal. She felt a surge of pride that the superstar athlete was Asian, representing her heritage at the highest level of excellence in a path relatively few Asian Americans tread. “You don’t really see many Asian faces on TV across any field, let alone sports,” said Siew, 34, who is Chinese American. “I think if growing up, we had seen…

With a dizzying array of streaming services available, there was no shortage of great TV this year—and while io9 has already shared our top 20 shows of 2023, today we’re revealing our top TV moments... all 50 of them. These are the moments when we laughed, cheered, shed a tear, shrieked in disbelief, and/or realized…Read more... With a dizzying array of streaming services available, there was no shortage of great TV this year—and while io9 has already shared our top 20 shows of 2023, today we’re revealing our top TV…

I think most people will tell you Game of Thrones was great until the last season.CaptainRedBeardd:Directors literally saw what people wanted from the ending and said Nah we don't want to be predictable. Ruined the series for me. AlexandriaRealtor , HBO Report The Walking Dead. It had the potential to be such a good show, but I finally gave up like season 5 or 6, which was probably a lot more than I should have given it.ilyazrey56t43ter43:It started off as a great show and then just became a rinse…

Episode 106 of Squid Game: The Challenge. Image: NetflixThe idea was bonkers from the start—a reality competition based on a fictional series about a reality competition in which players fight to the death—but perhaps unsurprisingly, given the runaway success of its gruesome source material, Netflix’s controversial Squid Game: The Challenge is a certified hit. Even without any dead bodies.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedAccording to Netflix’s viewership report for the week of November 20, The…

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: legendary Hong Kong director John Woo has a new film coming out in December – Silent Night – and any movie from the GOAT of action flicks is a real gift. So why not revisit the movie that is arguably the most popular, and inarguably the most bonkers, of his career?Face/Off sees John Travolta as FBI agent Sean Archer, who is tracking the notorious terrorist Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage. But when Troy tries to kill him and kills Archer’s son instead, Archer becomes…

Last updated: November 18th, 2023 at 14:57 UTC+01:00 Samsung's developed a bit of a habit to launch absolute bonkers versions of its products under the “Ultra” moniker. We've seen this with its Galaxy S smartphones and tablets. The company has also done it for laptops under its Galaxy Book lineup. The Galaxy Book 3 Ultra is the company's most bonkers laptop and it has a price to match. It starts at $2,399, but for a limited time, Samsung is giving you an instant $600 discount, bringing your price down to $1,799 even…

Here is a sci-fi superhero action-comedy which pops as sweetly and insubstantially as bubblegum. It’s a sequel, of sorts, to Captain Marvel from 2019, which sketched in the origins of Brie Larson’s eponymous superhero, one of the few MCU figures with the honour of having the franchise brand in their actual name. However, the idea of a “sequel” is a bit problematic in this world, where consequences can be modified or reversed or shunted into parallel worlds, or revealed to be null and void in the post-credits sting.As the…