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Suzanne Collins’ novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, adapted for the silver screen by trusted Hunger Games filmmaker Francis Lawrence, is wonderfully referential, and not just within the context of its series, but outside of it as well. One of my personal favorite citations is the poem that inspired Lucy Gray Baird’s name. The songstress, played by Rachel Zegler in the film, is named after a William Wordsworth poem that all but informs the character’s destiny. Although we hear the Covey sing this ballad while…

WARNING: Major spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes are ahead! If you haven’t seen the highly anticipated book-to-screen adaptation, it’s playing in theaters right now. As I walked out of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the only thing I could think about was: Did Coriolanus Snow actually love Lucy Gray Baird? Or was this all one big deceptive power play? I saw this project on the 2023 movie schedule days ago, and I’m still baffled by this question. However, I’ve…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. A prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gives fans a peek behind the curtain at the corrupted leader President Snow, back in his early years before he was fighting the rebellion started by Katniss. Set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games, the Coriolenus Snow (Tom Blyth) we see is just a teenage boy trying to graduate from school and restore honor to his family…

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max colour options have surfaced online, ahead of their expected debut next month. These handsets are tipped to be lighter as they use a new material for the chassis and will feature a few noteworthy hardware improvements over their predecessors. This year, both Pro models could be equipped with Apple's purported 3nm A17 Bionic chip with improved performance and battery efficiency, while the top-of-the-line iPhone 15 Pro Max model could feature a new periscope camera with better optical…

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is still a few months away from release, but hardcore Hunger Games fans are already eager and ready for more from the world of Panem. It’s been ten years since Mockingjay Part II was released, and in that time, Jennifer Lawrence’s portrayal of Katniss Everdeen has become an icon of the genre. So it’s not surprising that audiences are expecting some sort of nod towards Katniss in the new film, which will be a prequel taking place 64 years before the 74th annual Hunger Games. In fact,…

A remarkable video shows the moment a gray whale sought help from a whale-watching captain in Mexico to have parasites picked off its head.The footage, posted to Facebook in March, was taken by a passenger on a whale-watching boat operating in the Ojo de Liebre, a lagoon on the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.It shows a gray whale approaching the small tourist boat as the captain, identified as Paco Jimenez Franco, starts picking whale lice off its head.The whale remains for a while, spinning around long enough…

Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Andre Gray ‘marry in Jamaica'(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Leigh-Anne Pinnock has reportedly got married. The 31-year-old singer and soccer star Andre Gray – the father of her 21-month-old twins – flew out to Jamaica to tie the knot in front of friends and family including her former Little Mix bandmate Jade Thirlwall. Sources told the Daily Mirror newspaper – who obtained footage and photos of the celebrations – the couple celebrated their wedding with a beachfront reception that went on late…

Dell XPS 17 (2023) review: still great, but going a bit gray MSRP $2,950.00 “The XPS 17 9730 is a disappointing update, and it's losing its leadership position.” Pros Solid productivity performance Good gaming performance Excellent build quality Great keyboard and touchpad Superior IPS display…

Sunny Southern California has not been so sunny lately, with gray skies casting a dreary shroud over the region.What causes the stubborn low clouds that muscle out the sunshine day after day?To start with, the cloud cover is a function of the season. In May and June, the upper atmosphere is more stagnant. Troughs of low pressure, the kind that brings rain in winter, still pass over the region but are much weaker. At the same time, the sun’s angle is higher and more direct. It heats the land and air, but the ocean…

This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent by readers about what’s been weighing on their hearts and minds. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.It’s that time of year again in Los Angeles. Just as we round the corner from the introverted days of winter and are graced with the briefest shimmer of sunny spring, the clouds roll in.I’m no meteorologist, but this May has seemed even gloomier than normal. An actual meteorologist, David Sweet of the National Weather…