Desperate

Twitter's blue check mark was once a coveted status symbol. Now, some users are calling it "the dreaded mark" or that "stinking badge."Last week, Twitter began stripping the verification symbols from the profiles of thousands of celebrities, media personalities and politicians. The shift came as Elon Musk, the company's CEO, continued to roll out Twitter Blue, a subscription service that offers special features like tweet-editing in addition to the blue badge - for $8 a month.Now that anyone can purchase a blue check,…

via Transmission Films History has shown on countless occasions that explosive war stories are among the most reliably popular subgenres available to streaming subscribers around the world, and it’s one of the most underrated to come along in years that’s currently manning the trenches after Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan dug in for a battle against the odds on-demand. Per FlixPatrol, the unfairly overlooked and severely underrated retelling of an oft-forgotten part of the Vietnam conflict has gunned down…

Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images There’s no doubt that since being announced as the creative head of a rebooted DCU, James Gunn has been letting everyone know who’s in charge. It’s clear that the Suicide Squad director has a vision that he’s keen to see realized, but that hasn’t stopped DC die-hard fans from trying to use the power of the internet to get some ideas on his radar. In a recent popular post on the DC_Cinematic subreddit, a fan pointed out that we’ve not really had a chance to see Vandal Savage…

Melissa Cassem still cannot make sense of what happened to her family at their home in the Sierra Nevada during a recent heavy snowfall.In late March, the Cassems were snowed in after a historic winter storm dropped 10 to 15 feet of snow in Alta, Calif., about 60 miles northeast of Sacramento. The family had moved to Placer County from the San Francisco Bay Area a year before. It was Melissa and husband Jason’s dream home. They uprooted their lives and moved with their 9-year-old son, Geoffrey, and 11-year-old daughter,…

Avatar 2 Writer Has Been Brought On Board To Pen Marvel’s Fantastic Four(Photo Credit –Poster From Movie) The Marvel Cinematic Universe or MCU’s quality seems to have gone down after Phase 3 i.e. the Infinity Saga. Their recent release, Ant-Man, and the Wasp: Quantumania did not do very well either. Reportedly Marvel has been working on the Fantastic Four movie along with other projects. The Studios as people know are going through a rough seems to be trying really hard to buck things up as per sources, Avatar The…

Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory takes the time-honored tradition of space rebels and turns teenage horribleness on its head. In Tesh’s own words, this novel is “about being the very worst person imaginable, and then trying to be better. It’s a book about the end of the world, and what happens after. It’s a book about survival, and hope, and change. And it’s a book about how sometimes your queer found family is your fellow cult survivors who hate you, a horrible gremlin boy who won’t stop doing crimes, the cutest alien…

Photo via Marvel Studios It’s been known for a long time that Dave Bautista has been gearing himself up to exit the MCU. We’ve known as far back as 2021 that the wrestler-turned-actor would likely not be returning to the role of Drax after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. However, it’s starting to hit home a bit more now that the final film is just around the corner. The actor has recently doubled down on his decision in an appearance on The Tonight Show where he said that he would never return to Drax. I…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJulian Sands was still on the move two days after the British actor was reported missing in “extremely dangerous” territory, phone pings suggest.A week has now passed since the 65-year-old Arachnophobia star’s wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz, told authorities that her husband had disappeared while hiking alone in California’s San Gabriel mountain range, some 40 miles northeast of Los…

It would appear that the unofficial announcement of Justice League: Power of Bagel is the straw that broke the camel’s back, with SnyderVerse supporters now deciding that they want Warner Bros. Discovery to auction off a piece of the DCU to Netflix. The reasons why this isn’t going to happen are plentiful, even though the streaming service has a habit of paying exorbitant amounts of money for blockbuster content. The plan for James Gunn and Peter Safran is to consolidate the many splintered arms of the franchise, so we…

Tesla started out the month of December by offering Model 3 and Model Y buyers in the U.S. a $3,750 credit if they have their vehicle delivered in December 2022. Now with a week left in the month, the electric vehicle maker has upped that discount to $7,500, according to the company’s website. After the news of the discount and other offers designed to increase sales in the fourth quarter, Tesla’s stock dropped another 9% and is trading at $125.12 at market close on Wednesday. It seems Tesla is…