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30. Keep on Going (1973)A fantastic curio from the Mystery to Me album. Written by Bob Welch, Keep on Going sets Christine McVie’s voice against an arrangement audibly influenced by the soul music coming out of Philadelphia International Records at the time: high-drama strings, dancefloor drums. It’s like nothing else Fleetwood Mac recorded.29. Spare Me a Little of Your Love (1972)If you want to trace the roots of Fleetwood Mac the multimillion-selling pop-rock phenomenon, start with the LP Bare Trees. Tellingly still in…

Colorado Springs and Boulder were ranked as some of the best places to live in the United States in 2022, according to U.S. News and World Report. Colorado Springs was ranked as second overall, falling only behind Hunstville, Ala. The city got a score of 6.4 out of 10 for quality of life and 5.7 for value. The rankings also gave Colorado Springs, which has a median age of just under 35 years, a score of 10 for desirability. The list said the city’s landscape falling below Pike’s Peak — the inspiration for “America the…

The latest broadband stats are in and there's one clear winner when it comes to customer service. According to the latest tests from telecoms regulator Ofcom, it appears that BT is leading the way with the company performing best for overall satisfaction. In fact, BT scored a significantly better result for its internet service than any of its rivals which helped to placed it top of the broadband leaderboard.The average score for "Satisfaction with service overall" was 83 percent but BT managed to post a rating of 88…

Sam Raimi is one of the last auteur filmmakers working in the industry, and has become a staple of several genres since making his first features in his college days. Raimi came up around rogue, independent filmmakers who truly believed in their projects, and put their blood, sweat and tears into their projects. All of this is evident as early as his first feature film, 1980’s seminal horror flick The Evil Dead. Since then, he’s worked in other genres such as superheroes, fantasy, westerns, sports, and noir. As a film…

10. Flesh+Blood (1985)Rutger Hauer, in his sixth and last film for Verhoeven, plays the leader of a band of mercenaries who kidnap and deflower the fiancee of a duplicitous nobleman, in this Dutch-American mini epic set in Italy during the middle ages. Brace yourself for non-PC sex and violence, Carry on up the Codpiece humour, and buboes a-go-go.9. The Fourth Man (1983)Soldier of Orange may be the best film from Verhoeven’s early Dutch period, but The Fourth Man is the most fun. Jeroen Krabbé plays a gay alcoholic writer…

20 Hidden Figures (2016)A rare unsympathetic outing for Kirsten Dunst in this much-loved true-life biographical drama about the African American female mathematicians at Nasa in the 60s, whose work was vital in getting the US into space. Dunst plays the white supervisor, Mrs Mitchell, who is coldly and blandly racist towards the women, and the role plays on her ability to project hostility.19 Mona Lisa Smile (2003)A smugly reactionary married student … Kirsten Dunst and Jordan Bridges in Mona Lisa Smile. Photograph:…

20. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)Liza Minnelli’s first screen appearance was in this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, a vanishingly brief cameo as a three-year-old toddler. It’s full of poignant family significance and also uneasily prophetic, given that the adult Minnelli was all too often booked for nothing more than a celeb walk-on. The doe-eyed moppet appears in the film’s closing shot between Van Johnson and her real-life mother, Judy Garland; the pair, after their comedy-of-errors romance, are now…

You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth Green buying a set of speakers designed to be so loud that they can blow a woman’s clothes off. In a career in which Wahlberg has sometimes appeared to actively seek out bad movies, this will forever be his worst.Marky Mark and the monkey bunch … Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter in…

20. Don’t Move (2004)A bizarre, unwholesome, sexually explicit melodrama whose depiction of rape would now be considered problematic, to say the least. Penélope Cruz is made up to look authentic and unglamorous as Italia, a vulnerable working-class woman assaulted by a prominent surgeon (played by the film’s director, Sergio Castellitto) who then conceives an obsession with her. Not a great part for Cruz, but the movie does at least approach her with something other than the traditional celebratory/lifeforce reverence.19.…

Over the last few seasons, the developers of Apex Legends have worked on opening up the game, both with a massive new map and adding a temporary game mode that swaps out battle royale action for a more traditional team deathmatch. On May 10th, they’re introducing another new legend to the arena with Newcastle and making changes that might help players focus on teamwork. Season 13 of Apex Legends carries the title Saviors, which matches Newcastle’s kit of abilities that are about keeping his teammates alive longer to…