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Keyboards — we all use one at least once a day. Some of us use them all day, and so need something nicer to type on, sturdier than your average straight-out-of-the-box, included in the package, plastic keyboard. We want something that is solid as a rock, sounds good, made of premium materials, and many of us find what we want amongst the many custom keyboard options out there.NuPhy make some of my favorite mechanical keyboards — so you can bet the moment I heard it was making a customizable keyboard that would let me put…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press ” The Taste of Things ” should come with a warning: Audiences may be tempted to abandon work as they know it and start a beautiful, calm new life in the French countryside devoted to the culinary arts. There is something rather cruel about releasing a film this lovely and voyeuristic in the dead of February, in which the cinematic gardens are lush, the game is fresh, the atmosphere is tranquil, the distractions are non-existent, the conversations are intellectual and the goal is shared.…

The excitement over Dune: Part Two’s March 1 arrival is building—so much so that other movies are trying to capitalize on it. Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is returning to theaters accompanied by a special tease of Denis Villeneuve’s sequel—but first, David Lynch’s take on Dune will be getting its due.Spoilers of the Week April 24-29Fathom Events, known for its limited-run special engagements of older films, is teaming with Universal to bring the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic back to the big screen on…

This immensely likable debut novel from Irish writer Ferdia Lennon opens in Syracuse, south-east Sicily, in 412BC. The city has lately defeated a military expedition from Athens and thousands of surviving invaders have been thrown into nearby quarries to rot. No Syracusans lament their fate until two locals visit one day with an idea to cast the prisoners in a play by Euripides.The two men are Gelon, a melancholy theatre obsessive, and his wisecracking friend Lampo, who narrates the novel in a distinctly un-Sicilian…

Stories about the power of stories are an easy sell; in part, I think, because they subtly ennoble the producer and the consumer of those stories, shedding a glow of valour on the profession of the former and chosen leisure pursuit of the latter. Ferdia Lennon’s debut novel, Glorious Exploits, is very much a story about the power of stories – and the spiritual and emotional succour they give – though, fortunately, too much of a clever one to fall entirely into the mode of blithe self-congratulation.It is 412BC, the…

Screenshot: TohoThe best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.Reservation Dogs | First FandomsBrilliantly named Minus One: Minus Color, the re-release is intended to evoke the original 1954 Godzilla movie—which makes sense, given Minus One was made for Big G’s 69th and 70th anniversaries, after…

The Tardis has landed. If you have been following along, you know that Jodie Whittaker‘s Thirteenth Doctor has morphed into David Tennant‘s Fourteenth Doctor, who was also the Tenth Doctor, a re-regeneration unheard of in the annals of the Time Lords. (Someone better informed than I might be aware of a precedent — anyway, it’s rare.) You can’t go home again, wrote Thomas Wolfe, but F. Scott Fitzgerald said you can repeat the past — of course you can.Indeed, the past repeats gloriously in “Doctor Who: The Star Beast,” the…

Google Arts & Culture has taken a momentous step in chronicling the illustrious history of Hindi cinema with the launch of its expansive online exhibition, the largest ever dedicated to the globally acclaimed film industry. This initiative, accessible for free on the Google Arts & Culture platform, employs cutting-edge technology, including Google's Augmented Reality and Street View, to provide an immersive journey through more than 120 expertly curated stories and over 7,000 assets, encompassing approximately…

Stop reading this article and consider picking up Super Mario RPG on Switch. I’ll make the same pitch I made decades ago when I came across it on the SNES: it’s an all-comers RPG. No matter how much you might dislike the genre or Mario as a concept, it has plenty of ways to win you over. It’s also perfect for folks newer to RPGs as a whole and there are enough hooks present for veterans. If you’re already on board or can’t be swayed, there’s plenty of other stuff to sift through too. Persona 5 Tactica and Bluey:…

It took about nine hours’ worth of episodes for Loki to wrap up 12 years of MCU storytelling. Just nine hours. That’s like, half an Eternals.  What’s even more impressive is that the Disney Plus series stuck the landing, gracefully making it feel like its hero had always been on this path. It closed out Loki’s character arc in a beautiful, satisfying way. Even the character’s biggest fans had to admit that if things had to end, this was an ending that made the journey worthwhile.  Which makes you think: What if that…