Jules

Screenwriter Gavin Steckler and director Marc Turtletaub have given us this goofy, likable new twist on ET. In the Mathison/Spielberg classic from 1982, the visiting extraterrestrial found safety within the secret world of children, whose existence is beneath the grownups’ notice. Now the space alien finds himself protected by old people, who are used to being patronised and ignored.Chief among the alien’s allies is Milton, played by Ben Kingsley, an ageing widower in whose back garden his spaceship crash-lands, and who,…

One of the last conversations John Malkovich had with Julian Sands, his best friend of 40 years, concerned how to prepare yourself for death. You can see that conversation in their new film, Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes, which premiered at the Berlin film festival this week. Malkovich fears it will be their last together.Malkovich plays the Stoic philosopher of ancient Rome, an adviser and speechwriter to the despotic emperor Nero. In one scene, Seneca tells his friends: “Remind yourselves: we die every day.…

| Dark Horse Comics has promoted Cara O'Neil to VP of Marketing, and its tie-in retail chain Things From Another World has promoted Jules Morales to Vice President of Retail Sales Cara O'Neil – Vice President of Marketing, Dark Horse Comics & Jules Morales – Vice President of Retail Operations, Things From Another World/ Dark Horse PR After joining Things From Another World as a Marketing and Events Specialist in 2019—already with 11 years of management and sales experience under his belt— Jules has been promoted…

Photo: Jace Downs/AMCIn last week’s recap, I wrote the following: “Do you ever feel tense when watching The Walking Dead anymore? Does the TV show ever truly surprise you anymore? I’m pretty sure it’s been quite a while since TWD made me feel like a character was in real danger or did anything that made me wonder what was going to happen next.” I am pleased to report tonight’s episode surprised me, made me anxious, and left me wondering what’s coming next week.Now, given that next week’s episode of The Walking Dead is…

A promotional image of an Astronaut used by GameStop to advertise its NFT marketplace. The astronaut figure was used in an NFT that also evoked a famous photo from 9/11.Image: GameStopIt’s one of the most horrifying representations of the 9/11 terror attacks, and somebody thought it could make them a quick buck. Users on GameStop’s fledgling NFT marketplace were flabbergasted over the weekend when they saw somebody was selling a non-fungible token evoking The Falling Man, a photo of a man jumping from the North Tower of…

While you doubtless don’t need to be reminded of the aeons we’ve known dogs and loved them, zoology has had a tendency to neglect them. “For decades in the 20th century,” Howard writes, “dogs were considered unworthy of rigorous study,” since focusing on them for insights into the animal kingdom was “like trying to understand the adaptations of a chicken’s egg by studying the crumbs of a wet cake”. Dogs were somehow rendered inauthentic, almost processed, by their emotional and physical proximity to us.In fact, counters…