Crows

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA moody piano. A bass chord that thuds insistently under a rolling motif that hesitates, lingers, then speeds to catch itself up. “I am ready, I am ready, I am…” sings a deep, slightly strained vocal. Hoards of elder millennials swoon. This is “Colorblind” by Counting Crows, a track eternally linked to a scene in the salacious 1999 teen movie Cruel Intentions, in which Ryan Phillippe…

Sheryl Crow has tried everything: She’s read Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra, consulted with Jesus and Buddha, and even taken mushrooms. Yet, as she sings on her new single, “Do It Again,” she keeps making the same mistakes. At least she sounds serene as she lists here near revelations (and confesses, “Yeah, I’ll probably fuck it up again”) on the four-minute, bluesy pop-rock song off her upcoming Evolution album. Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Keith Urban) produced the LP, which comes out on March 29. “I feel like I’ve…

Last week, Netflix announced it’d pulled the plug on Shadow & Bone, the YA fantasy show based on Leigh Bardugo’s popular five-book series. Much as fans mourned the show for being unable to tell the full story of the main trilogy, they were also just as devastated (if not more so) to realize this cancellation meant its intended spinoff also wouldn’t see the light of day.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksKnown as Six of Crows and named after the first book in the titular…

via Walt Disney Pictures Disney is having quite the year.  From fighting political battles with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to conquering the box office with some of the biggest movies of the year, the House of Mouse can’t be stopped. Sadly, only Avatar: The Way of Water has become a global phenomenon. Other films like the live-action The Little Mermaid and MCU movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 have fallen short of expectations. Now, it’s up to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Density, which premiered…

If you’ve discovered Shadow and Bone thanks to Netflix, you might be thinking to yourself, “Maybe I’ll pick up the books, this seems like a fun series!” And while you wouldn’t be wrong, you also wouldn’t be starting in the best place. Leigh Bardugo’s original Grishaverse Trilogy—Alina’s trilogy—is comprised of Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising. It’s a very good, if very predictable, YA fantasy series. It’s also nearly a decade old, and some of the choices it makes that were innovative at the time are…

Image: Dávid Lukács/NetflixWhen Eric Heisserer agreed to act as the showrunner for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series, he had one condition. Netflix had to get the rights to Six of Crows for him too. According to Variety, he stated that having access to those characters was absolutely essential for him to sign onto the show. Now, it seems like he’s finally poised to dedicate time and space on screen for a standalone Six of Crows tv show. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show is in “early stages” and does not currently…

There is a lot of romance in Shadow and Bone. It is based on a YA series, after all. While there are a lot of other epic fantasy shows that have a lot of sexual entanglements, I found the romances in season two—which premieres March 16 on Netflix—to be some of the most compelling character arcs within the series. We have Alina and Mal, Mathias and Nina, Kaz and Inej, and Wylan and Jesper (whose romance changes from the book in ways I found delightful and fun for their characters!). At a recent Shadow and Bone press event…

Rachele Aragno possesses the rare ability of capturing darkness and placing it inside character designs that might seem innocent at first glance. It’s a quality that artists such as Edward Gorey and Emily Carroll also possess. Characters come off as calm and approachable only to suddenly give an odd over-the-shoulder look or a cold glare that shows something hiding underneath, something not so nice. This is evident in Aragno’s collaboration with Mike Mignola on Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows, a holiday special…

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability. Recursion is a key feature of language. It enables us to build elaborate sentences from simple ones. Take the sentence…

By Jillian C. York, Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I made it big on Twitter. Now I don’t think I can stay. For a long time, it was worth it for writer Mikki Kendall to stay on Twitter because Twitter had the power to change your life. She broke big on Twitter more than 10 years ago with a hashtag, #solidarityisforwhitewomen. It was great for her career, giving her access to a global audience and unprecedented access to the editors who made her a published…