Goofy

It’s still too early to say if Amazon’s live-action take on Fallout will be any good. But the first few trailers at least make one thing clear: the show seems like it’s nailing the distinct vibe of the games.The newly released second trailer follows a lot of the same beats as the first, tracking a Vault Dweller named Lucy (Ella Purnell) heading out into the Wasteland only to discover how dangerous things have become two centuries after the apocalypse. The show looks gritty and violent, as you’d expect from a…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Madame Web… Oh come on, like you care. Madame Web is A Goofy Movie. Yes, those italics are deliberate. Every single person who has seen Sony’s Spidey-less Spider-Man spin-off in theaters (which, going by its abysmal box office, isn’t that many) can agree that it’s a goofy movie. Whether that’s why it’s one of the worst films of all time or destined to become a camp cult classic is up to you. What we didn’t realize until now, however, is that it is practically copyright…

Actually, it was from the head as much as anything: a movie that arose from Francis Coppola’s shrewd, professional calculation that he could create and control an entire old-fashioned Hollywood romantic drama from his own studio, Zeotrope. The result was a lavish production which was very ambitious, hubristically or perhaps even ruinously so. But at the same time it looks oddly small scale, emotionally parochial and essentially monogamous – certainly a downshift from the colossal sweep of Apocalypse Now or The…

`Gossip Girl` star Ed Westwick and British actress Amy Jackson recently made headlines after they got engaged. The couple has been dating for a couple of years now. Two days after a dreamy proposal in Switzerland, Ed took to his social media handle to wish Amy on her birthday. Ed Westwick took to his Instagram handle and shared a series of pictures of him and his fiancée. The carousel saw a mix of goofy and romantic pictures of the duo capturing the different phases of their relationship. Sharing the…

Earlier this week, Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro to let its strange new temperature sensor finally take readings of human bodies. I regret to inform you that, having used it, it doesn’t make this feature any less baffling.To measure body temperature, you have to sweep the phone’s infrared temperature sensor over the side of your forehead, right above the temporal artery. So far, nothing super odd here. Just this month, I got to check out the Withings BeamO, a 4-in-1 multiscope that also has you scan the same kind of…

One could be cynical and see this transposition of the Riverdale narrative universe into an Indian setting as just another exercise in brand colonialism, pasteurising youth culture one country at a time with deadly doses of emulsifying intellectual property. Or one could just chillax and dance along to the formidably catchy songs, performed with zip by the peppy and exceedingly well choreographed cast. While one is grooving along, it’s worth noting that every so often the film-makers have smuggled in a quietly subversive…

Screenwriter Juel Taylor makes his feature directing debut with his own co-written script; it’s an odd, slightly baffling but likable piece of work. It’s a conspiracy mystery-comedy that starts out as a neo-blaxploitation romp or supersmart satire on race and white privilege that you might compare with Get Out or Sorry to Bother You. But then it broadens into something sillier and goofier, almost a kids’ movie. I can imagine it building a cult fanbase by being shown every Christmas Eve on TV, and it’s certainly got three…

Those of us who have played video games from a very young age probably have some weird licensed games that we only owned because someone knew we liked a particular franchise or character. And if you’re like me, many of those were Disney games. These varied wildly in quality, but I look back fondly on decent licensed games like The Incredibles and Finding Nemo as some of my most formative gaming experiences. After going hands-on with Disney Illusion Island, I’m confident it’ll be that game for many kids in the…

Image: NetflixPink-haired, punky, and with the ability to transform into animals at will, mischievous teenager Nimona is ready for action. When the knight Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) is framed for a crime, Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz) vows to prove his innocence. Sure, he’s supposed to be defeating her, but when you have enemies this good, who needs friends?Nimona | Official Teaser | NetflixThe Nimona adaptation has has a bit of a rocky history. It was originally optioned by Blue Sky Studio, whichstarted working on…

Before the inevitable bloat of summer lands with exhaustingly over-extended runtimes and confusingly interconnected universes, there’s some unpretentious fun to be had with Robert Rodriguez’s daft and brief little B-movie Hypnotic, written in 2002 and made as if it was shot soon after. It’s such a curiously dated thriller, from the score to the direction to the casting to the overall vibe, that at times it feels like Rodriguez is in full pastiche mode, as if this was a Far From Heaven-level homage deliberately designed to…