Finest

On Friday it was announced that UK pop band Steps – Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian ‘H’ Watkins and Lee Latchford-Evans – had clinched the number one spot in the album charts with their latest release ‘The Platinum Collection’, fighting off strong competition from rising Mancunian rapper Aitch and the undisputable Queen of Pop Madonna. The achievement means that Steps is the first mixed-gender British band to score a number one in four different decades – ‘Steptacular’ in the 90s, ‘Gold’ in the 00s,…

Nigerian film-maker Obi Emelonye has written, produced and directed more than a dozen films, but his work is barely known beyond the Nollywood distribution circuit that serves viewers in west Africa and immigrant communities elsewhere. However, Black Mail, his London-set latest, is getting a reasonably wide release in the UK at least. The lowish-budget production values, gestural performances and blunt moralism of the scriptwriting puts this very much in the heightened dramatic tradition of mainstream Nigerian cinema, but…

| Lost in time and with nothing better to do, Dick Grayson finds a job working in the circus again in this preview of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #6. Check out the preview below. BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #6DC Comics0622DC1100622DC111 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #6 Terry Dodson Cover – $4.990622DC112 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #6 Rafa Sandoval Cover – $4.99(W) Mark Waid (A) Travis Moore (CA) Dan MoraTHE FLYING GRAYSON FLIES THROUGH TIME! The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel might have been…

Pile-driving pig people I remember being intrigued while watching my old roommate play through Hybrid Heaven. In my younger days, I had rented it and written it off for a reason I think is perfectly valid: all the environments look the same. Watching him play through it didn’t prove otherwise. Hybrid Heaven is metallic corridors from eyebrows to toe-hairs. But something about the way he was enjoying it was infectious. After he completed it, he told me that “he probably wouldn’t have tolerated it without save states.”…

CLX Scarab MSRP $5,000.00 “The CLX Scarab is a worthy choice for gamers who want a high-end PC that games well and looks clean.” Pros Great cable management Plenty of customization choices High performance out of the box User upgradable Cons Expensive, especially for…

Fans have criticised the fact that the forthcoming Wicked film adaptation, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, is set to release in two parts. Jon M Chu, the movie’s director, revealed on Tuesday (26 April) that the first part will premiere on 25 December 2024, with the second half scheduled to debut a year later on 25 December 2025. In Chu’s statement on social media he explained the choice, writing: “It became impossible to wrestle the story of ‘Wicked’ into a single film without doing some real damage to it.“As…

While most gadget aficionados are interested in typical consumer devices such as smartphones, audio products, wearables, and computers, I seem to have a slightly strange obsession with vacuum cleaners. It started out with an interest in cleaning robots, but now that I've successfully deployed artificial intelligence for the critical task of keeping my floors clean, I've looked at ways to take that further. After all, there's only so much a robot can do before a person needs to step in and apply some good old human…

via Warner Bros./Orion Pictures/Universal Sci-fi has reigned as one of the most perennially popular genres on the planet for what feels like forever, but it’s hard to look past the 1980s as the true Golden Age. While there are other decades that could lay claim to the crown, it’s hard to look past the years between 1981 and 1989 as the cream of the crop, with dozens upon dozens of cult favorites, smash hit blockbusters, all-time classics, and underrated gems arriving on a wondrously regular basis. Trying to pick…

| PrintWatch: Iron Cat #1 and Amazing Spider-Man #4 are getting second prints from Marvel Comics, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 and The Flash #783 from DC Comics, Sengi & Tembo #1 from Scout Comics and Alex Toth's Artist Edition from IDW. PrintWatch: "Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, featuring the fusion between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel that immediately captivated fans upon its reveal, gets a second printing on sale August 2, with a Final Order Cutoff Date of July 10!…

-10 ‘Just Looking’ (‘Performance And Cocktails’ 1999) -10 ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ (‘You Gotta Go There To Come Back’ 2003) No matter how I tried, I just couldn’t separate these two blissful ballads, showcasing frontman Kelly Jones’ vocals. I asked around and no one could say one was better than the other. So they tie for tenth position. -10 ‘Just Looking’ (‘Performance And Cocktails’ 1999) -10 ‘Maybe Tomorrow’…