Pumped

Although Godzilla vs. Kong started off with the two titular Titans coming to blows, by the end of the fourth MonsterVerse movie, they later joined forces to battle a common enemy, Mechagodzilla. For Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, one of the major tentpole releases on the 2024 movies schedule, these gigantic beasts will team up once again, though that’s not to say they’re now on great terms with one another. In fact, their begrudging alliance was inspired by a classic buddy cop movie, and now I’m even more pumped for…

Bradley Cooper’s Netflix movie, Maestro, has received seven nominations at the 96th Academy Awards, with Cooper himself receiving nods for Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture. However, the Oscar nominee wasn't able to make the cut for Best Director. He seems to be taking that turn of events in stride, though. On that note, Cooper's buddy, Brad Pitt, (while honoring him), hit him with a sick burn over the snub. And Kansas City Chiefs fans are sure to get a kick out of it ahead of Super Bowl LVIII.In…

Chris Jericho is a WWE star known for making memorable cameo appearances. In 2021, he showed up in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and he made a remarkable appearance in the closing moments of the 2022 blockbuster extreme horror flick Terrifier 2. The AEW Rampage star is set to return in the upcoming horror movie follow-up, Terrifer 3, and he just provided an update. Let me tell you, his tease has me even more pumped for the flick. In conversation with MovieWeb about his documentary The Death Tour, which debuted at the…

As a huge fan of Disney’s Tron movies, I’m pretty excited by the fact that the long-awaited three-quel to one of the best sci-fi movies has finally started filming. More commonly called by its unconfirmed title, Tron: Ares’ cast has been adding exciting players over the last year, with Evan Peters and Jared Leto among them. However, my excitement has just taken a huge leap forward, as X-Files vet Gillian Anderson has now been announced as officially on The Grid. Deadline recently broke the news that Anderson will be…

Japan may have just given us the best Godzilla movie ever with Godzilla Minus One, but the massive kaiju will be back on the screen before too long with 2024’s upcoming movie release Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. As a big fan of the current Monsterverse, I’m certainly looking forward to the new entry, but now even more so following some new details on the film’s villain, the Skar King.Director Adam Wingard recently spoke with our sister site Total Film (via GamesRadar) and revealed a bit of new info about the creature…

Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on April 14, 2021.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFor crypto bulls, the most lucrative bets in 2023 were in the stock market.While bitcoin rallied over 150% for the year, shares of Coinbase, MicroStrategy and the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which are all tied closely to the digital currency, did substantially better, rising more than 300% in value. Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital soared 688%.Not only…

As a less invasive alternative to open-heart surgery, cardiac surgeons are increasingly accessing the heart from within using central venous catheters. An experimental new catheter could soon make such procedures quicker and easier than ever before.Ordinarily when using a central venous catheter for heart surgery, the device is inserted into a vein in the patient's neck, chest, arm or groin via a small incision.The surgeon then guides the catheter up that vein and into the heart, typically guided by ultrasound images.…

‘I’m going to need a new tour bus,” quips Johnny Marr, referring to the vast amount of people on the stage. His regular band of 10 years has expanded and now includes his son Nile on “guitar and fabulous harmonies”; a 30-piece orchestra – conducted by Fiona Brice – is here to provide what the 60-year-old frontman has called a “highly pumped symphonic feel”.The occasion marks Marr’s 10 years as a solo artist and new solo best of, Spirit Power. It’s also the inaugural large music event at Manchester’s Aviva Studios. The…

For a final point of comparison, Smith calculates that cosmic rays interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean annually cause the natural deposition of 2,000 times more tritium than will be introduced by the gradual Fukushima release.Tatsujiro Suzuki at Nagasaki University remembers watching in horror as the disaster unfolded back in 2011. “We all thought that this kind of thing would never happen in Japan,” he says. At the time, he was working for the government. He recalls the confusion over what was…

Between 1993 and 2010, humans extracted and moved so much of our planet's groundwater that it contributed to the migration of Earth's poles.Just the contribution of groundwater redistribution resulted in a polar shift of 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) towards the east, according to a new analysis led by geophysicist Ki-Weon Seo of Seoul National University in South Korea.These findings allowed scientists to confirm that previous estimates of groundwater depletion caused by human activity are equivalent to a total sea level…