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Screengrab via Warner Bros. It’s one of those weird cosmic coincidences that The Flash movie is coming out just as The Flash TV series is ending. Despite the Ezra Miller vehicle being announced the very same year the CW show first hit screens — back in 2014 — it’s taken Warner Bros. the entire length of the popular superhero series’ run to make it into theaters. Adding an extra wrinkle of irony into the mix is that these two projects mark the ends of two separate universes — the Arrowverse and the original…

via Netflix As a relative giant in the entertainment world, Netflix is no stranger to roping some of the industry’s most storied names into their many shenanigans, whether it’s a make-or-break Jeff Goldblum typecast, or recruiting the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger to hype up the streamer’s action thrillers. Speaking of thrillers, the Spanish psychological mystery series Muted has been flying high alongside Netflix’s latest franchise branch-out XO, Kitty, while one of the heaviest hitters in the history of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeQuentin Tarantino has killed off one of his movie characters.The film director, who is an honorary guest at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, shared an update about his most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood via the official Twitter account of podcast The video Archives.In the posts, the podcast, which Tarantino co-hosts with writer Roger Avary, said that Rick Dalton, the…

The CW is a network that’s often taken some strange swings, and whose shows like Riverdale or The Winchesters cause no small amount of confusion when they first get announced. When it was revealed in 2020 that the network was aiming towards a live-action reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, one of Cartoon Network’s most popular animated series back in the day, the reaction was more...erm, mixed than usual. Reboots themselves are always crapshoots, and it didn’t help that we already had a Powerpuff Girls reboot that didn’t go…

Venture capital (VC) investors welcomed the changes proposed by the government to angel tax provisions that were originally announced in the Union budget for 2023-24, saying they provide much-needed clarity on incidence of the tax while preventing it from being arbitrarily applied.“The proposed norms aim to expand valuation methodologies and eliminate price differentials between resident and non-resident investors… This inclusive approach will facilitate ongoing investments in the country,” said Karthik Reddy,…

One person was killed Saturday night in the crash of a single-engine plane near Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles’ Beverly Crest neighborhood, the L.A. Fire Department said.Fire crews discovered the wreckage and victim, believed to be the plane’s sole occupant, above a home in the 3000 block of Beverly Glen Circle after a search that was hampered by heavy fog, the LAFD said in a statement late Saturday. A search was underway of the steep terrain to confirm that there were no other victims.The plane was reported missing by…

German Labor Minister Hubertus Heil said he believes artificial intelligence will eventually create more jobs than it kills, while also helping to alleviate a labor shortage in the country.Speaking to German newspaper Tagesspiegel, Heil said, “According to everything we know and can observe, we as a society will not run out of work in the future.” He also said he doesn't support bans on chatbots like Chat-GPT but added that people need to understand the data that AI tools are being trained on. “This not only prevents…

Scientists at the University of Georgia have created a "superfoam" with two very valuable potential applications. It could be used not only to clean up oil spills, but also to keep infections from occurring at medical implant sites.Developed by a team led by Assoc. Prof. Hitesh Handa, the three-dimensional material consists of a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) matrix which is augmented with graphene nanoplatelets and antibacterial copper microparticles. These additions give the foam a coarse, porous structure which is both…

Oyster mushrooms feature in cuisines around the world, but they should be off the menu for hungry worms—which these delicious fungi kill and devour with abandon. Now researchers finally know how they do it. A study published in Science Advances details how oyster mushrooms use a particular toxin to paralyze and knock off fungus-eating roundworms called nematodes. The fungi, which grow on nutrient-poor rotting wood, then consume the nitrogen-rich worms. “Nematodes happen to be the most abundant animals these fungi…

Alaska Airlines is flying forward into the future. Or, trying to do something like that at least. The company announced a suite of changes, soon to be coming to airport lobbies, in a Tuesday press release. Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow RulesFor one, Alaska Airlines has proclaimed there will be no more check-in kiosks. Instead, customers will have to check in prior to arriving at the airport on their phones, personal computers, or with a gate agent in person. iPads that print bag tags will supplant kiosks. This…