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Måneskin’s frontman Damiano David stares out into the vastness of the O2 Arena, raising his eyes to the seats at the rear, so high up that tickets come with a warning about vertigo. “Fuckin’ ’ell,” he says, almost to himself. “This is a big-ass venue.”David is not a performer much hampered by reserve – it takes him two songs to strip to his waist, and a couple more to start grinding his crotch against the microphone stand while singing “I want to fuck” – but, for a moment, he seems genuinely taken aback. Few rock bands…

After recently closing out Coachella with UK bass rollers, heady trance and comedy dubstep in his trio with Skrillex and Four Tet, Fred again..’s next move is a quite colossal dynamic shift: releasing an album of ambient songs made with Brian Eno. The pair go way back, to 2010 and Fred again..’s mid-teens, when a mutual friend invited the boy who was then just Fred Gibson to join a singing group of Eno’s. Eno is not his godfather, as has been widely rumoured, but he quickly became a mentor, bringing him on to…

via Disney Just because public domain stories are ready, willing, and able to be adapted by anyone in any way they see fit, it doesn’t always mean it’s the wisest course of action. It might be a stroke of fortune that Peter Pan & Wendy can only be found on streaming, then, because recent history hasn’t been too kind to the iconic fable at the box office. Pete’s Dragon and The Green Knight director David Lowery’s lavish live-action remake of the 1953 animated classic marks the third feature-length Peter Pan…

via Miracle Comms There’s no shortage of visually-dazzling science fiction stories out there across film, television, and video games, but crafting a story engaging enough to keep audiences invested throughout is an entirely different – and much more difficult – matter, one that 2016’s Native failed to master. Co-writer and director Daniel Fitzsimmons deserves plenty of credit for crafting such a rich, vivid, and imaginative world on a budget that makes the film look and feel much more expansive and expensive…

via Margate House Films There’s no way any screenwriter could have made up the tale of James Brooke, which becomes crushingly ironic when you sit through the uninvolving Edge of the World and realize that the people tasked to retell the incredible true story somehow conspired to waste its undoubted cinematic potential. Brooke was a former soldier in the Bengal Army who set sail to Borneo in 1839, where he lent assistance to a local governor in putting down a rebellion. From there, he ended up taking over as…

Simplifying the process of creating stunning charts with MatplotxExample of a matplotlib scatter plot with the matplotx theming applied. Image by the author.Matplotib is one of the most popular data visualisation libraries available within the Python world. However, over the years, it has gained a reputation for creating boring figures and being awkward to use.As seen in my latest articles, converting the basic matplotlib charts to something visually appealing does require several lines of code. Don’t get me wrong; I…

Mehul Reuben DasJan 06, 2023 20:07:41 ISTIt seems that we finally have scientific, empirical proof of what many people have believed in for years now –  that social media has a very adverse effect on children and young teens, and can even alter their brains. Neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina suggested in a recently published study that habitually checking social media as a young teenager leads to hypersensitivity to peer feedback and may potentially lead to permanent changes in the brain’s reward and…

via 20th Century Fox Any franchise that rumbles on for well over a decade is inevitably going to fall victim to the law of diminishing returns, but that air of resignation didn’t do much to leave longtime fans anything other than crushingly disappointed with X-Men: Apocalypse. As you’d expect from what was the ninth overall installment in the mutant saga, fresh ideas were proving hard to come by. Of course, it didn’t help that predecessor Days of Future Past is rightfully deemed as top-tier superhero cinema, so…

via Screen Gems History has shown that horror movies don’t need to find anything even remotely resembling universal acclaim to succeed, but based on the talent gathered together to craft 2014’s Deliver Us from Evil, both critics and audiences were expecting much better. Sure, the supernatural thriller earned a respectable $88 million at the box office on a $30 million budget to turn a tidy little profit, but respective Rotten Tomatoes scores of 29 and 42 percent from the aforementioned sides of the divide was…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press The stars appear one after the other — a banquet of talent, a glut of inventiveness — and yet nothing clicks. Hollywood’s most famous squirm in a slog. Welcome to “Amsterdam,” writer and director David O. Russell’s answer to the question: Can some of the top actors in the world mange to elevate poor material? The answer is a dull no. It becomes a slaughterhouse. Just look at this lead cast: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington. Russell wastes them with pointless…