Greed

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAgainst the odds, Wonka is a winner. It was supposed to be the prequel nobody asked for, an utterly unnecessary addendum to one of the great works of children’s fiction, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It seemed like it was addled by unflattering CGI. Its buzzy young star, Timothée Chalamet, was miscast – how could anyone fill Gene Wilder’s shoes? Now that critics have actually seen…

A WEEK AFTER THE MASSACRE in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead, 13 wounded, and a swath of New England terrorized and on lockdown, the gun industry was thinking about its bottom line. During a Nov. 1 quarterly-earnings call, Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy touted the company’s profits, and the sales boost from new products like its SFAR — a “small-frame auto-loading rifle,” chambered to fire devastating, high-caliber bullets. The firearms press is enamored with this new assault rifle, touting it as “easy to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn light of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ (SAG-AFTRA) historic move to join its fellow union, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), in striking against studios and streamers, actors and writers have shared horror stories that highlight the very corporate greed that the combined unions’ are fighting against. Follow along here for real-time…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJohn Cusack is one of several Hollywood stars speaking out about unfair wages for actors as the performers’ union goes on strike. On Thursday (13 July), the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra) joined screenwriters in strike action, picketing studios for fairer standards for actors and performers across the industry.This effectively means…

Richard T Kelly writes the kind of chunky panoramic sagas thought to have gone out with the ark. Crusaders (2008) took place in his native Newcastle upon Tyne ahead of New Labour’s rise to power; The Knives (2016), more thrillerish, offered a non-demonising portrait of a beleaguered Tory home secretary in 2010. His quietly stimulating new novel, set in the years between Suez and Thatcher, centres on the discovery of North Sea oil, a subject rich in irony, not least because the advent of “black gold”, seen as the bedrock…

Activision Blizzard leaders didn’t appreciate jokes that poked fun at greedy corporate execs via a conniving, scampering, and loot-obsessed character in World of Warcraft, so much so they fired the game designer who wrote the little goblin’s voice lines.The Boogeyman's Sophie Thatcher Reveals What Draws Her to Dark Characters | io9 InterviewIn a series of tweets posted Wednesday, former Activision Blizzard game designer and nine-year company veteran Eric Covington said that he was fired in March for “lampooning generic…

There are many indicators that assist traders in estimating where market tops and market bottoms are. Almost all of these incorporate charting patterns, but a more interesting indicator involves looking at the emotional aspects of the market. The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index shows the emotional state of the trading market and gives the opportunity to counter-trade it. Bitcoin Rainbow Chart The Bitcoin rainbow chart is almost a reverse swing-trade indicator to the Fear and Greed index. The Bitcoin Rainbow Chart is an…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tweet about greed. That's what U.S. politicians ought to do if they want to gain likes and retweets on Twitter, according to new University of British Columbia research. The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers from UBC's department of psychology analyzed every tweet…

Shiba Inu fear and greed index suggests to investors the ideal time to buy the coin after considering the trend The second-largest meme token, Shiba Inu, has been choked within a broad band between $0.00001358 and $0.00002. There have been many efforts at recovery, but price movements are restrained by the downward trendline that forms the symmetrical triangle. Shiba Inu created a pattern with a higher high, suggesting that buyers are there and pushing for a breakout. It is preferable in this situation to consider the…

Crypto fear and greed index compiles emotions and attitudes from various sources into a single, straightforward number The global crypto market’s price behavior is directly driven by sentiment in the crypto market. As a result, the market’s prevailing sentiments, which can be caused by a variety of factors, can ruin any investment strategy. The crypto fear and greed index can perform the job for individuals/businesses rather than attempting to conduct various forms of market analysis and speculating on how…