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Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer up an interesting array of original characters for audiences to love.Star Wars Brotherhood Excerpt: Dexter Jettster ReturnsOne of the newest additions for the sequel was Bode Akuna, a mercenary who shows up…

Accidents happen. Not much we can do about it, except try to do better next time around and possibly suffer the consequences.And by consequences, it can just so happen to be a certain degree of subtle public shaming. Like when you accidentally sit in the wrong seat, and then swap it for another one, and then another one, and then another one, and then the breadcrumb trail leads back to you.It’s rare for a person to board a plane and not feel tired. So, you can understand why sometimes mistakes happen because of itImage…

Jamie Dornan is confident that his "Anthropoid" co-star Cillian Murphy is going to win an Oscar though he joked that he won`t be voting for the "Oppenheimer" actor. Dornan, who is currently promoting the second season of his BBC series "The Tourist", was asked about the viral press interviews he and Murphy did for "Anthropoid", reported GQ UK. He was also asked whether the two actors planned to work together in future. "I love Cillian, and we`ve nearly worked together a couple of times since. I have such respect for him…

The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the “Hangover Whopper,” celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year’s with facial recognition. All you have to do is hold your bleary-eyed visage up to a camera, and the company says its face-scanning software will judge how hungover you look and hand out a corresponding coupon. Welcome to the future: a boring dystopia where the most nightmarish technology is just another cutesy promotional…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKeanu Reeves has recalled once giving director Francis Ford Coppola magic mushrooms as a birthday gift.“I gave Francis Ford Coppola, once, for his birthday, some mushrooms,” the 59-year-old actor told the Inside Of You Podcast with Michael Rosenbaum. “While we were doing Dracula.”Reeves starred alongside Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins in Coppola’s 1992 vampire romance…

There are some situations when people tend to behave less politely than they normally would and being in pain is one of them. It has even been shown that for the many people who don’t often use such language, swearing increases pain tolerance, among its other functions.Either way, it may be hurtful when directed at others and this Redditor raised a question about whether it would be a good idea to apologize for swearing at her doctor while giving birth.More info: RedditA woman’s doctor was great while she was in labor,…

Samsung customers have always enjoyed an extensive global repair and service network. You'll find a Samsung-approved repair provider in most countries, so you could get service for your handset even overseas. Taking it to an official service provider is always the better option since you know that the work would be done with genuine parts. You can't be certain of that with third-party service providers. On the other hand, there are a lot of users who prefer having the option to perform DIY repairs. Some do it as a hobby,…

Clare Walker, a 23-year-old in Brooklyn, has racked up about $700 worth of gift cards or, in her words, “free money,” by referring her contacts to Flip. “There were definitely some people who I haven't really kept up with since high school, but I was like, ‘Hey, add me on Flip. Here’s a free 75 dollars, enjoy,’” Walker says. Her purchases on Flip include JBL wireless headphones, a variety of luxury skin-care products, and a live houseplant.Noor Agha, CEO of Flip’s developer, Humans Inc, says his product’s sudden…

It was the late 1980s when Gary Mund felt his pinky tremble. At first it seemed like a random occurrence, but pretty quickly he realized something was seriously wrong.Within two years, Mund — a crew worker with the Eastern Municipal Water District in Riverside County — was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The illness would eventually consume much of his life, clouding his speech, zapping most of his motor skills and taking away his ability to work and drive. “It sucks,” said Mund, 69. He speaks tersely, because every…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past quarter-century, the idea has taken hold among politicians across the spectrum that one of the best ways to address inequality is to give local communities the resources to do the work themselves. Provide them with funding, and they can spend it on the projects that their communities really need. But our research has shown that while many of these projects can be very positive,…