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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWill & Grace star Debra Messing and Hostel director Eli Roth are among the 450 Jewish creatives and Hollywood executives who have signed an open letter denouncing director Jonathan Glazer for the speech he gave at this year’s Oscars.Glazer was accepting the Oscar for Best International Film for The Zone of Interest, his movie about an Auschwitz commandant and his wife who try to…

A satellite image of a phytoplankton bloom off the coast of St. John’s, N.L. Credit: NASA, MODIS Rapid Response Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring bloom occurs. Visible from space, spectacular large and ephemeral filament-like shades of green and blue are shaped by the ocean currents. …

Article contentA Nashville hardcore punk band has kicked out their singer after he admitted to dosing a fellow member with estrogen to sabotage the relationship with his partner.According to a post shared recently on Llorona’s since deactivated Instagram account, “Diego” was dropped by the group after admitting to swapping pre-workout protein powder with high amounts of estrogen and gifting it to bandmate Sixx to make him appear more feminine.Article content“We have decided to part ways with our vocalist Diego due to…

A previously unknown satellite may be shaping the rings of Chariklo, a petite body that orbits the Sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, according to a team of astronomers that recently simulated the rings’ dynamics.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Chariklo is about 160 miles (257.5 kilometers) across and is one of the Centaurs, a group of icy bodies between Jupiter and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Chariklo is the largest of these small bodies, making it similar to a large boulder the size of a small…

In a typical battery, charged ions zip one way through a sea of other particles as the battery recharges, before racing back in the other direction to release the stored energy on cue.Back and forth the ions go, some getting diverted along the way, until the capacity of the battery is drained, and it loses energy too quickly to be of any use.But physicists, good on them, are imagining new ways of storing energy in handy portable devices by drawing on a strange quantum phenomenon that twists time, amongst other unusual…

Wildfires have been raging throughout Nova Scotia since last week, lowering air quality for cities in the Northeast. As a result, skies across New England, New York, and New Jersey have been hazy this week as smoke from the wildfires made its way down south.Biggest Forest Fire in New Mexico HistoryResidents across Massachusetts have reported smelling wildfire, the Boston Herald reported on Tuesday. This led to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issuingan “Air Quality Alert” yesterday for nine…

To find out if the microbes being introduced might be “good” or “bad”, Fackelmann and her colleagues analyzed the microbiomes and looked up individual types of microbes in databases to work out what they do. They found that, with more plastic, there were more microbes that are known to break down plastic to some degree. There were also more microbes that are known to be resistant to antibiotics, and with the potential to cause disease. Fackelmann and her colleagues didn’t assess the health of the birds, so they don’t…

The making of Top Gun: Maverick was no small task, and it involved working extremely closely with the United States Navy to pull off this authentic and extreme movie about fighter pilots. Joseph Kosinski, the director of the legacy sequel, has been extremely open about his “quest for authenticity” on this movie, as he told Deadline. Most recently he talked about how he was allowed to go places and see things within the Navy that many civilians could never see. However, because the Navy was letting the director behind the…

Frigid temperatures are expected to sting two-thirds of the continental US this week as a powerful storm system races eastward. The timing couldn’t be worse, hitting right before the holidays, when many Americans are planning to travel. Those journeys — and even just being outside in some of the hardest-hit regions — may become treacherous as brutal cold blankets the country.“What better way to kick off the official start of astronomical winter than with numerous winter weather hazards impacting a majority of the Nation,”…

Image: Studio MAPPA/Toho AnimationSimilar to what HBO Max did back in 2021, Netflix launched an ad-supported plan at the start of November. At a cheaper price, it’s the streamer’s way of bringing in more users to balance out its loss of subscribers from earlier in the year. That alone would be notable, given Netflix’s prior comments about bringing ads to its service, but the new plan’s existence also has some unintended consequences for the streamer’s anime selection.Recently, The Japan Times reported that the country’s …