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Last year’s departure of co-founder guitarist Freddie Cowan, following the 2016 exit of co-founding drummer Pete Robertson, doesn’t seem to have knocked the Vaccines off their stride. After five consecutive Top 5 albums, their sixth – featuring former touring guitarist Timothy Lanham – stays seamlessly true to the high-octane garage rock sound that has served them well. Opener Sometimes, I Swear is the sort of boisterously alienated anthem you can imagine being bellowed in the street. The likes of Lunar Eclipse, Sunkissed…

Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Netflix It seems the entire world finds great comfort in watching Chris Hemsworth murder countless henchmen and barely get away alive, as both of his Extraction films have the top two spots on the Netflix global chart. Directed by Sam Hargrave and written by Joe Russo — and of course produced by both Russo brothers, who never met a CG-assisted action scene they didn’t want to pay for — the first Extraction released in 2020 to mild fanfare. From a storytelling perspective,…

And the wait is finally over. The trailer of Alia Bhatt`s first-ever Hollywood film `Heart of Stone` is out. Helmed by Tom Harper, `Heart of Stone` stars Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan in lead roles besides Alia Bhatt. On Sunday, the cast launched the trailer at Tudum 2023 in Brazil. The film revolves around Rachel Stone (Gadot), a highly accomplished spy who is also secretly a member of the Charter, a covert organization that relies on advanced technology to thwart potential threats to global safety.What her MI6 team…

Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, will tell the story of the cryptocurrency exchange founder and alleged fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried in his next book.Going Infinite: the Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis will be published on 3 October, and is described by its publisher Penguin Press as a “high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century’s most spectacular financial collapses”.Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, became the world’s youngest…

Here Are 5 Reasons Why You Must Not Miss Fast X Universal Pictures (distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery) The Legacy of Fast and Furious is coming to an end with Fast X- The End of the Road begins with a lot of action, cars, explosions, and family emotions. It is a thrill-filled journey where we will see all the iconic characters from the Fast and Furious Saga coming together for one last time for the final race. When it comes to car racing, we’ll never forget the heart-pounding action scenes of Dom Toretto’s (Vin…

After decades of middling results, video game adaptations are finally the hottest thing in entertainment, especially after those . Streamer Peacock is joining the video game adaptation wars with a live action comedy based on the PS1-era vehicular warfare simulator Twisted Metal and it just dropped the first trailer. For the uninitiated (anyone under 30), Twisted Metal was a hugely popular franchise that is sort of a riff on the Battle Mode from the Mario Kart series, with a heavy emphasis on comical violence and absolute…

Blackpink, the K-pop superstars who became the first Asian and all-female band to headline Coachella on Saturday night, are a testament to the increasingly porous language and cultural barriers in pop music.The group’s members – Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa – are from, respectively, Korea, Korea via New Zealand, Australia and Thailand. Their lyrics are a free-flowing blend of Korean and English; their loyal fan base, known as the Blinks, spans the globe and several YouTube viewing records. And on Saturday, their…

Michael B. Jordan’s Creed III packs a mighty cinematic punch with high-octane drama and action(Photo Credit –Still From Creed III) The Creed series amassed a huge fan base across generations, including millennials and Gen Z, for featuring some of the best fights and stellar performances. Michael B. Jordan stole our hearts as Adonis Creed, much like Sylvester Stallone did as Rocky Balboa. Now, he is back with Creed III, another masterpiece in the series. Creed III also marks Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut has…

via Warner Bros. As one of the genre’s most enduring icons, Sylvester Stallone has starred in his fair share of classics. While 1993’s Demolition Man may not be his highest-grossing or most critically acclaimed shoot ’em up, for a lot of fans it remains their personal favorite from the musclebound legend’s long and illustrious career of kicking ass. Even after 30 years, the futuristic tale of cryogenically-frozen nemeses Jon Spartan and Simon Phoenix renewing their hostilities in the peaceful utopia of 2032 San…

Back in 2020, Chuck Brown—co-writer of the Eisner Award winning series Bitter Root—collaborated with artist Prenzy for the self-styled “hyper-violent, hyper-stylized” comic series On the Stump from Image Comics. Today it was announced the two comic creators along with letterer Becca Carey are collaborating on another comic series entitled Flawed from Image Comics this September. Here’s how the publisher describes the series: Flawed follows Gem Ezz, a psychiatrist in the Kafkaesque city of Setham, where corruption and…