Frenetic

If anyone has the right to sit on a throne in the middle of Las Vegas, it’s Usher. The King of R&B, whose residency graced the city for 18 months, has earned his crown as an ambassador of near-peerless showmanship, luscious escapism and a good time. He’s an old-school performer, the kind to give and give, to one-up himself on a ceaseless quest to entertain. And so the 45-year-old resident star of Vegas (with all due respect to Adele) opened his Super Bowl half-time show – an achievement explicitly aimed as both a…

To some, if not most, the news that sales of vinyl records are now at their highest level this century – in 2023, they rose for a 16th consecutive year to 5.9m – will come as little surprise, for all that we were once told the format would soon be as dead as a dodo. Yes, streaming is inarguably highly convenient; let us give grateful thanks for the fact that we can download an album even as we run in the park, or wait on a cold platform for an endlessly delayed train. But the sound of digital music, as every vinyl fan…

TODAY'S BEST DEALSAfter eight years, the next entry in the Bayonetta series is finally here, and while overall positive, the results are a bit more mixed than some might've expected.While prior games have seen the titular Umbra witch Bayonetta tackle the angels of Paradiso and the demons of Inferno, here in Bayonetta 3, the threat comes from man-made bioweapons called Homunculi. Upping the stakes, these Homonculi aren't content to destroy just one world: They intend to bring down the entire multiverse. So once again,…

The Russo brothers are not known for a muted style of film-making. But even by their usual bombastic standards – and take into account these are the men behind the Marvel cataclysms Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame – their latest, the Netflix-produced espionage thriller The Gray Man, is cacophonous on every level. The score, what you can hear over the barrage of heavy artillery, sounds as though it was played with hammers and industrial machinery. Then there’s the visual noise, a clutter of blurry agitation, wheeling…

A leaked cache of confidential files from ride-sharing company Uber illustrates ethically dubious and potentially illegal tactics it used to fuel its frenetic global expansion beginning nearly a decade ago, a joint media investigation showed Sunday.Dubbed the "Uber Files," the investigation involving dozens of news organizations found that company officials leveraged the sometimes-violent backlash from the taxi industry against drivers to garner support and evaded regulatory authorities as it looked to conquer new markets…

via Next Entertainment World The zombie movie continues to endure as one of horror’s most popular subgenre, even though it’s getting increasingly harder to put a fresh angle on the familiar tropes and trappings. Smash hit Train to Busan managed to bring a new perspective to hordes of the undead, but sequel Peninsula was a somewhat more underwhelming affair. It’s still a fast-paced, frantic, and eminently enjoyable escapade, though, but it couldn’t hold a candle to its more illustrious predecessor despite upping…