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Film: Arthur The King Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu, Bear Grylls, Michael Landes, Paul Guilfoyle, Ali Suliman, Rob CollinsDirector: Simon Cellan JonesRating: 3/5Runtime: 107 min. “Arthur the King” is based on the true story about a team participating in an adventure race - the most extreme conceived. Mark Wahlberg plays team leader Michael Light of The American team, that is making a last-ditch effort to score big, racing through the jungles, mountains, and rivers…

New research reveals that feeling known rather than knowing others is key to relationship satisfaction, impacting how online dating profiles should be crafted to attract potential partners effectively.Demonstrating an interest in understanding potential partners in online dating profiles can significantly increase attractiveness and potential for relationship satisfaction.In writing a good online dating profile, the average love-seeker is likely to fill it up with all the appealing qualities and interests that make them…

Partial regression plot of the effects of feeling known (standardized residuals controlling for felt knowing) and felt knowing (standardized residuals controlling for feeling known) on the standardized residual of relationship satisfaction with family in Study 1a. Credit: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104559 In writing a good online dating profile, the average love-seeker will likely…

Sadness Sets Me Free is, by his own estimate, about the 25th album from Gruff Rhys, if you include his work with Super Furry Animals and all of his various side projects. As with so much of what has gone before, it’s a finely balanced mix of melancholy and joy: heavy subjects and a lightness of touch. They Sold My Home to Build a Skyscraper – about cultural spaces being razed to make way for luxury flats – is a case in point, its downbeat lyrics (“They floored my people down with sandpaper”) at odds with its gloriously…

Of the many gestures of love, small and, more frequently, supersized, in Love Actually, the one that always stood out to me is of the former kind. Hugh Grant’s prime minister sits in a grand yet cosy drawing room at No 10, alone on Christmas Eve, rifling through holiday cards in his red despatch box. He comes across one from Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), the tea lady he’s been pining for since their first, expletive-filled meeting. “If you can’t say it at Christmas, when can you, eh?” she writes. “I’m actually yours.”This…

With Blur about to release a new album and Pulp’s return taking the form of a bustling summer gig schedule, all we need to make 2023 the return of the Britpop Big Three is an Oasis reunion. Alas, with Liam and Noel still scrapping, lately via the mediums of talkSPORT and Twitter, it looks like the closest we’ll get is another High Flying Birds record. Which is, admittedly, quite far. If the Gallaghers did miraculously patch things up at short notice, Noel’s solo project already has the perfect comeback track: Easy Now,…

As quixotic quests go, it’s a doozy: take 96 hours of raw footage filmed during one of the craziest and most tumultuous shoots in movie history and attempt to create a new version of the film described by Variety on release in 1979 as “a moral Holocaust”.Step forward Thomas Negovan: the man who rescued Caligula. “There were definitely a lot of points in the last three years where I thought I was crazy,” he says. “I thought: ‘Is anyone going to care about this?’” But, in fact one of the most important entities in the…

Lisa Cortes’s documentary is an irresistible tribute to the pioneering rock’n’roll genius, whose wild transgressive energy and explosive sexuality blazed a trail and created a musical and performing language for James Brown, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Prince, Elton John, David Bowie, and many other stars – some of whom had the good grace to thank him.And he is now considered a great queer artist, which is how many interviewees here describe him; Little Richard in fact described himself as gay, and the movie perhaps…

OnePlus Pad: A High-End Tablet with an Attractive Price At the beginning of last February, the Asian manufacturer, OnePlus, unveiled its first-ever tablet, the OnePlus Pad. It is an impressive product that exudes quality from every aspect, but the company had kept its price a mystery until recently. Now, thanks to a leak from a popular Indian store, we finally know the price of OnePlus Pad, and we must say, it’s surprisingly attractive. The tablet can compete face to face with Apple’s iPad family, but it will not…

The crypto world has evolved rapidly since Bitcoin’s humongous success. The increased interest in the concept of cryptocurrencies shows that the crypto world, indeed, has the potential to replace the current global economic system. Cryptocurrencies that started with Bitcoin are much more diverse today; new crypto phenomena are entering the race and are gaining recognition. One such phenomenon that took the crypto market by storm is the meme coin industry. The origin of the meme coin industry is credited to a dog-based…