Polarizing

Konami I had some expectations for the Silent Hill series going into PlayStation’s first State of Play of 2024. Chief among those, I assumed we’d finally get a release date for Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2. That didn’t happen, as a newly revealed combat trailer didn’t even drop a hint about when we might see it on PS5. I didn’t leave the showcase empty-handed, though: Konami would surprise-release a whole unannounced Silent Hill game to make up for it. Silent Hill: The Short Message, available for free on PS5 right…

With 2024 in full flow, information surrounding the next iPhone has started to ramp up, and a new prototype points towards the iPhone 16 Pro sticking with a similarly designed Action button to this year’s 15 Pro model.According to MacRumors, Apple has been testing multiple Action button designs for the next generation of iPhone, with previous reports hinting at a slight design change. The latest prototype, which is in the “Proto2” development stage, shows the Action button exactly as we know it.Throughout the iPhone 16…

Greta Gerwig has responded to Jo Koy's joke on Barbie at the Golden Globes, that polarized audiences. Speaking to Radio 4’s Today program, as per a report on The Independent, the director defended the host and said that 'he’s not wrong.' (Also read: Taylor Swift joke was ‘a little flat,’ admits Golden Globes host Jo Koy amid backlash) Jo Koy's joke on Greta Gerwig's Barbie didn't sit well with many fans. What Greta Gerwig saidGreta Gerwig did not seem to mind Jo Koy's dig at Barbie at the Golden Globes…

Outside of this list, you have most likely encountered the idea of a “hot take.” This is simply an opinion, view, or idea (the “take”) that is quite controversial (the “hot” part.) What you might not have known is that this term comes from sports radio, of all places. Originally, the idea was to promote some listener engagement through good, old-fashioned rage baiting,The strategy would be for the radio hosts to choose "a topic from the sports zeitgeist, often one that has no business being discussed because the answer is…

Meta said Thursday that it removed 4,789 Facebook accounts in China that targeted the United States by posing as Americans and spreading polarizing content about U.S. domestic politics and U.S.-China relations. In its Q3 Adversarial Threat report, Meta, which owns Facebook, said it was able to identify and remove the accounts before they gained traction with real people and communities. The accounts included fake photos, names and locations in an effort to appear like average American citizens expressing…

Forget turkey. Let’s talk cranberries. And if we’re talking cranberries, we have to start with Ocean Spray’s canned, jellied cranberry sauce, that jiggly staple of the Thanksgiving table. Somehow this cylindrical blob of sweet, glistening, ruby tartness has become synonymous with America’s most gluttonous day. You know it and love it, unless you hate it, in which case you might use homemade sauce cooked with some of the trillion cranberries that the company’s owners grew. Either way, Ocean Spray wins. Copyright ©2023Dow…

It’s been seven years since he last directed a feature, so maybe time will have mellowed out the often-incendiary work of Nicolas Winding Refn whenever he decides to step back behind the camera and call action on a new movie. He was announced to be developing an entire trilogy based on Enid Blyton’s family-friendly Famous Five series of books after all, so maybe he’s seeking to chill out and step away from the bursts of brutal violence, geysers of blood, and psychosexual undertones that have characterized much of his…

There’s a belief in some quarters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom that critics are harsher on the franchise than they need to be, but even if that does hold any water, it hasn’t done a thing to quell the discontent that greeted the first episode of Secret Invasion. While the premiere certainly had its moments, it wasn’t quite the top-tier political thriller the world was promised, although there’s still five weeks left to change that. It’s also worth noting that critics only had…

Image via Marvel We’re convinced at this point that every contract involving a Marvel Cinematic Universe film comes with the stipulation that the studio has full creative control of the third act, complete with a CGI army fight and a one-in-two chance of completely butchering an otherwise passable-at-worst movie up to that point. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the most egregious culprit, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was lucky enough to have a solid enough script that it didn’t suffer too heavily.…

via Warner Bros. If you want to get a decent handle on how a particular person feels about one of the most hotly-debated, talked-about, and polarizing blockbusters of the 21st Century, all you need to do is whisper “Martha” in their ear and wait for a reaction. Seven years on, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice remains capable of causing incendiary debate at the drop of a hat. There are plenty of vocal supporters – including director Zack Snyder – who’ll defend it to the death for being an ambitious…