Grit

It’s been 15 years since the sweet, shaggy slacker romcom Adventureland played at the Sundance film festival – and if that may seem a mere blink of an eye to the small but ardent cult of millennial filmgoers who took the film intensely to heart, its two stars returned earlier this month to the snowy mountains of Utah to remind everyone just how long it’s been. With four films premiering between them, actors Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg were separately the talk of this year’s festival: at the opening ceremony he…

Our mother shoulda just named you Laika Excitebike crossed with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night isn’t a mash-up I really considered, but that’s how Laika: Aged Through Blood is pitched. A “motorvania” as they put it. It’s gated, side-scrolling exploration, but you’re also playing a dark version of Uniracers. Goodness. As part of Steam Next Fest, a demo lets us get all our paws on it to find out exactly how Laika pulls off this unholy union. At over an hour long, it’s a surprisingly big bite of the game, and it reveals…

Volvo Trucks and Econ Engineering’s new electric gritter truck isn’t limited to just winter use because it has an Electric Quick Change Body (E-QCB) system. Transformer-like electric gritter truck The E-QCB, which is what Econ calls it, is much more than just an electric gritter truck. Thanks to Volvo Trucks’ customizable EV truck base, it can be turned, Transformer-like, into a tipper truck for highway maintenance, and a cage tipper for garbage or recycling collection.  The E-QCB…

Last month, the 90-minute documentary Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now premiered on Netflix. Its effect on the singer’s sales figures was almost instantaneous. Singles that were dropping out of the charts suddenly reversed their course. When his latest, Wish You the Best, came in at No 1, Capaldi had three singles in the Top 20. For good measure, he also had a Top 5 album, 2019’s deathless Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent having also enjoyed its umpteenth surge in sales and streams.The artwork for Broken By…

Ignore the talk about the Lakers belonging to Anthony Davis, or being inspired by Austin Reaves, or riding Rui Hachimura.Listen, instead, to a wordless scream directed into the face of courtside fans.Hear the loud, sweaty smack of a fighting rebound torn from the arms of a Memphis Grizzly.Feel the relentless elbowing rush to the basket in the throes of game-saving desperation.C’mon, who are we kidding here?As all the above scenes illustrated on a night when greatness showed up dressed in grind and grit, the Lakers are…

It says something about the degree of anticipation around Miley Cyrus’s eighth studio album that it was leaked, turning up on illegal download sites a good 24 hours before its official release. It’s a phenomenon that feels faintly old-fashioned. You might have thought the whole business of leaking albums belonged to a past era, before streaming supplanted downloads, and that people are now largely happy to adhere to the schedule knowing they’ll be able to stream the album for free when it arrives.But apparently there are…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Psychological grit has garnered a lot of interest in the last decade, particularly in the higher education arena. It's typically defined as passion and perseverance for long-term goals. A great deal has been written about it and the role it plays in the retention and success of tertiary students. Kelly Anne Young explored the role grit played in determining postgraduate retention among…

Grit. Don't quit. That's the mantra many parents may have in mind when they, like me, spend what feels like years ferrying children to a seemingly endless variety of sports and activities. From enduring sheets of almost vertical icy rain while cheering them on a hockey pitch, to obscenely early morning starts for rowing, I can happily say my own grit and resilience has been tested to its upper limits. But what…

The new P2E game, Calvaria, is pumping with stage 2 of the presale, raising more than 420,000 USDT. Many experts claim the game will be the next Axie Infinity – the most popular P2E game. At the same time, Calvaria’s success shed light on the collapse of other similar projects, mainly the Gala Games’ GRIT. But, what happened with GRIT, and how is Calvaria a better alternative? Learn all about this in the article. >>>Buy RIA Now<<< What happened with Gala…

This melancholy but beautiful documentary spends three years following Sharmaine Weed, a young Native American woman in her 20s who loves bareback horse racing, a sport favoured by Indigenous people in the region of the Rocky Mountains. Director Kim Bartley follows Sharmaine’s struggle to get back into racing after having taken a year off, spent helping to look after her younger sister who was paralysed after an accident on the racetrack.Entwined with this story is a subplot about Sharmaine’s passionate but tempestuous…