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General Motors (GM) looks to get back on track this year as executives believe EV “production hell” is behind it. After missing EV sales targets for the past two years, will 2024 be the year of execution, as GM says it will? Is GM putting production hell behind it? After delivering 75,883 EVs last year, GM (again) missed its target of selling 100,000 alone in the second half of 2023. The automaker encountered freight delays, software glitches, and other issues that delayed timelines. After…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAaron Taylor-Johnson has distanced himself from claims he’ll be the next James Bond.The Tenet actor made headlines on Tuesday (19 March) when it was reported that franchise producers were awaiting his response after making a “formal offer” for him to replace Daniel Craig as 007.Taylor-Johnson, 33, was first rumoured for the role in January 2023 after it was reported producer Barbara…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Image | Tagged: Garry Brown, Gerry DugganGerry Duggan's run on X-Men comes to an end with Fall Of X. So what is he doing next? Falling In Love On The Path To Hell with Garry Brown.Article Summary Gerry Duggan concludes X-Men series with Fall Of X and unveils new project. New comic Falling In Love On The Path To Hell pairs Duggan with Garry Brown. Ashcan of the upcoming series fetches up to $25 on eBay, sparks excitement. Image Comics to release…

President Biden said Friday he would support a quickly moving bipartisan bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes the legislation.   “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden told reporters Friday, referring to the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill from Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) advanced out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee with unanimous support on Thursday, just two days after it was introduced. Gallagher…

Brad Pitt has had some big Oscar nights. He’s been nominated five times, and has taken home two awards, once for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, and once as a producer for Best Picture winner 12 Years A Slave. He isn’t one of the 2024 Oscar nominees this year, but it will likely still be a big Oscar event for him, as his champagne will be featured at the ceremony.If you’re familiar with Fleur de Miraval, it’s likely because it's the French chateau that was purchased by Brad Pitt and Angelina…

In 2014, Vita Maria Drygas was filming in a war zone. She had travelled to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine to pick up footage for a documentary when she spotted a handwritten advert offering “cheap” tours of the frontline. “It was a mindfuck,” says the 39-year-old Polish director over a video call from Warsaw, with quiet intensity.She found the idea of people buying tickets to the frontline, like a theatre production, profoundly shocking: “It was impossible. I didn’t believe it.” At first, she assumed that the advert…

For more than a decade, Twitter has been the Internet’s water cooler, a place where people can find the topics driving the day. The like, retweet, and favorite counts were crucial to this system, letting people quickly see what conversations were burning up and motivating them to get in on the action. The system wasn’t broken, but the platform’s new owner Elon Musk didn’t like it—so he says he’s going to break it himself.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIn a series of tweets on Wednesday, Musk announced that like,…

If you’ve ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you’re not alone. The truth is, no one knows what modern problems this technology can solve. Google launched a multi-year, global competition on Monday to find real-world use cases for quantum computing, and the finalists will split $5 million.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “While there are many reasons to be optimistic about the potential of quantum computing, we’re still somewhat in the dark about the full scope of…

Here is an American-made documentary that is part of the rising flood of faith-based movies; it contains people recounting visions of an afterlife they experienced while technically dead. Despite being a documentary, it’s little different from feature narrative films such as QAnon-adjacent child-trafficking conspiracy-fest Sound of Freedom or the upcoming hagiography Cabrini, both of which involved After Death’s producers Angel Studios.Despite interviewees’ conviction that their souls left their bodies and glimpsed…

American Fiction's Cliff Ellison—the flashy surgeon brother to Jeffrey Wright's Monk, who is letting his freak flag fly as a newly out gay man after divorcing his wife—ranks high among Sterling K. Brown's best performances, earning the actor his first Oscar nomination. But will it be the one to score the multihyphenate talent that coveted EGOT? Of course, that "EGOT" distinction is given to those illustrious few who have won all four of the major American performing arts awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. The most…