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In a surprising turn of events, the gaming community is abuzz with excitement following the latest revelations about Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6), courtesy of a mysterious Redditor known as…

Image: Rochlin/FilmMagic (Getty Images)Once upon a time, Gore Verbinski was releasing movies at a reliable cadence, from Mouse Hunt and The Ring to the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy. Things took a turn in the 2010s with a pair of box office bombs: 2013's The Lone Ranger and 2016's A Cure for Wellness. He’s been in director purgatory since then, but a potential comeback may be on the horizon with his next film.Director Francis Lawrence on Making Netflix's BioShock FilmPer Deadline, Verbinski has rounded up a cast for…

Italian horror master Lucio Fulci is best known for his gruesome Gates of Hell trilogy—especially The Beyond—and the immortal Zombi 2, but his career also contained excellently off-kilter giallo movies, including Don’t Torture a Duckling and The New York Ripper. The Psychic, coming soon to Shudder, has fewer of those lurid elements that became Fulci trademarks, but it’s a tightly wound thriller with just enough weirdness to remind you who was calling the shots.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DLike most…

The dead are returning in the chilly Norwegian drama Handling the Undead, a sad, somber attempt to guide the zombie genre from midnight movie to arthouse. It works in parts, as a study of the ache and irrationality of grief, asking its characters how much they’re willing to accept and deny in order to see their loved ones again. But the first-time director Thea Hvistendahl’s patience-insisting slow burn can be testing, like watching a block of ice slowly melt, a story told in the smallest of drips, some of which sink in…

Former Vice President Al Gore will retire from Apple’s board of directors next month after more than 20 years with the company. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Apple announced Gore, along with former Boeing CEO James Bell, will retire during the company’s 2024 annual shareholder meeting next month. The board has a policy that directors generally can no longer stand for reelection to the board after reaching the age of 75 years old. Gore and Bell turned 75 last year.…

Apple has announced it is welcoming the president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Wanda Austion, to its board of directors. Meanwhile, Al Gore and James Bell are both set to retire at the age of 75. Apple announced the move by way of a press release Thursday, stating, “Apple today announced Dr. Wanda Austin, former president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, has been nominated for election to Apple’s board of directors. Dr. Austin brings decades of science and technology experience to her role, and she has…

Apple’s board of directors is getting a shake up.Longtime Apple board member Al Gore is retiring from the board, the company announced Thursday. The former U.S. vice president had been a board member since 2003, a witness of the company’s rise and transformation a few years after the return of co-founder Steve Jobs as chief executive.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Apple’s board of directors is getting a shake up.Longtime Apple board member Al Goreis…

Mortal Kombat 1Rating: 4.5/5Developer: NetherRealm StudiosPublisher: Warner Bros.Platform: PC, XBS, PS5Price: Rs 4,499 Who doesn’t love exploding chunks and gore in a videogame, once banned for being too violent Mortal Kombat has, over the years, truly stood the test of time version after version. So, some might say that it was due for a reboot like any successful franchise, while others might prefer dwelling in the past with familiar control systems and static lore. The good news is that NetherRealm Studios has…

Monster movie fans were thrilled when Ben Wheatley was confirmed as director of Meg 2: The Trench. The director of Kill List unleashed on a film in which Jason Statham battles giant prehistoric sharks? To quote the Sickos meme: “YES. .. HA HA HA ... YES!” The trailer looked promising. This could have been just what the fledgling franchise needed, especially as even Jon Turteltaub, director of the first Meg, had expressed disappointment at the first film’s lack of gore. “The number of really horrifying, disgusting and…

Moïra Fowley is the well-regarded author of three Young Adult novels, best known of which is The Accident Season. Eyes Guts Throat Bones is her first venture into stories for adults, which came about when she abandoned writing a fourth YA novel during the pandemic to bring, in her own words, something “bloody and beautiful” screaming into the world in a “horror-adjacent” mode.The first story, What Would You Give for a Treat Like Me, is a strong opener: a vivid, neatly executed post-apocalyptic road story with fairytale…