Heaven

Image: Noh Juhan | NetflixAs Awards season continues, Squid Game supremacy is nigh. The Netflix-produced dystopian fiction show has continued to show up to award shows ready to eliminate the competition, and they have continually done so. The popularity of this show is unmatched, and frankly, they deserve every award. At the Emmys this year, Squid Game was nominated for Best Drama Series, Jung Ho-yeon, Park Hae-soo, and Oh Yeong-su were nominated for supporting actor awards, respectively. Lee Jung-Jae won Best Lead in a…

Image via Marvel Studios/Disney Plus Happy Disney Plus Day, people! While the Mouse House’s big day has perhaps turned out more muted than expected due to the lukewarm reception of the Pinocchio remake and others new arrivals like Brie Larson’s docuseries Growing Up flying under the radar, this Thursday was still a gift for Marvel fans, as it delivered both Thor: Love and Thunder‘s streaming debut and the latest episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ⏤ both of which generated a ton of discussion within the MCU…

Pile-driving pig people I remember being intrigued while watching my old roommate play through Hybrid Heaven. In my younger days, I had rented it and written it off for a reason I think is perfectly valid: all the environments look the same. Watching him play through it didn’t prove otherwise. Hybrid Heaven is metallic corridors from eyebrows to toe-hairs. But something about the way he was enjoying it was infectious. After he completed it, he told me that “he probably wouldn’t have tolerated it without save states.”…

Pros Ultra-lightweight Programmable buttons Adjustable DPI Multiple connectivity options Great battery life Cons No on-board memory for profiles Grip tape looks odd against white mouse body Honeycomb body can hold dirt and hair No DPI throttle buttonIf you've seen my review on the wired version of the HyperX Pulsefire Haste, you know it's my go-to mouse for gaming and for work. And having gotten to use the wireless version for a while now, I can honestly say I've got a new favorite; especially when it's…

A new film has been pulled from cinemas after being accused of “blasphemy”.The Lady of Heaven, directed by Eli King, tells the story of Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad. It’s billed as the first ever film to do so.Cineworld has now decided to pull the film’s release after it was met with protests. Executive producer Malik Shlibak claimed that he has received death threats.Why is The Lady of Heaven so controversial?The depiction of Islamic prophets in film has long been a controversial topic. While the Quran…

A new film has been pulled from cinemas after being accused of “blasphemy”.The Lady of Heaven, directed by Eli King, tells the story of Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad. It’s billed as the first ever film to do so.Cineworld has now decided to pull the film’s release after it was met with protests. Executive producer Malik Shlibak claimed that he has received death threats.Why is The Lady of Heaven so controversial?The depiction of Islamic prophets in film has long been a controversial topic. While the Quran…

This British-made epic earns a significant accolade: it is the first film to put the “face” of the prophet Muhammad on screen. No single actor is credited with playing him, or any of the other holy figures in his entourage. And, as a nervous initial disclaimer points out, their faces, often shown in dazzling sunbursts, are computer-generated. Presumably, this is enough to placate Islam’s prohibition on visual representation of the prophet, but this is a Shia-aligned film that is evidently a little more lenient on the…

Tarik Saleh is the Swedish-Egyptian director who made The Nile Hilton Incident in 2017, a shrewd, dyspeptic movie about the official corruption in Egypt that triggered the Tahrir Square uprising. Now in an era when the Arab spring has arguably become a bittersweet memory, he has brought to the Cannes competition this watchable conspiracy espionage-drama satirising the corruption of church and state. There’s an intriguing mix of scorn and paranoia here, together with a yearning for individual figures of decency halfway…