Reckoning

Bumble, a once-powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. The company posted weak Q4 2023 results today showing a $32 million net loss and $273.6 million in revenue. While up from the same period a year ago, earnings came in below Wall Street expectations and were paired with a disappointing Q1 2024 forecast — sending Bumble’s stock tumbling ~10% in after-hours trading. Bumble’s taking drastic action to stem the bleeding. CEO Lidiane Jones (pictured above) announced that 30% of…

“Real Housewives” alum Brandi Glanville isn’t ready to make nice with Andy Cohen — despite the Bravo honcho’s apology Friday for sending what he admitted was a “totally inappropriate” video. Indeed, it appears that Glanville and her legal team are determined to use the ubiquitous media personality, Bravo host and executive producer of the “Real Housewives” franchise to show that powerful men in entertainment continue to get away with bad behavior. Five years earlier, the #MeToo movement exposed rampant sexism, harassment…

In 2017, “new retail” began appearing in Alibaba’s earnings reports. Coined by the Chinese e-commerce behemoth, the term refers to the seamless integration of online and offline retail. Six years later, Alibaba is having a moment of reckoning with this strategy as it looks to offload some of its offline retail assets. On its recent quarterly earnings call, Alibaba’s chairman Joe Tsai revealed that the firm has formed a capital management committee to work on divesting “non-core” assets,…

The second I mentioned Andor, Stellan Skarsgård’s face lit up. The legendary actor, who is back to portray Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, recently finished filming the second season of the hit Star Wars show where we’ll finally, hopefully, learn more about his instantly legendary character, Luthen Rael. And he seems very excited about it.In season one of Andor, Rael is a crucial character. He’s the person primarily responsible for bringing Cassian Andor into the Rebellion and risks a whole…

I didn’t think I’d be revisiting the mind of walkedoutneimans so soon after Tyko’s Dying Together, but here we are with iPad Baby. I need a breather. I can’t take this much sensory overload. I feel that deeply, since more and more I can’t stand the internet. There are too many people there. Too many thoughts, opinions, and content flying around in all directions. It becomes impossible to parse the important information from the irrelevant. Worse yet, companies like Google are continually pushing irrelevant content to the…

Image: ParamountMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One finally came to theaters last year after a longer than expected wait due to COVID. If you decided to wait for it to hit streaming, good news: it’s hitting Paramount+ next Friday, January 25.Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023But when it arrives there, it’ll be dropping the “Part One” from its subtitle. It’s been known for a few years that it and its eventual follow-up were coming as a two-part package deal that was originally meant…

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning has a confirmed OTT release date, and it's landing sooner than you might think. Well, there's another twist: say goodbye to Part One in the title. The Seventh installment of the highly successful franchise starring Tom Cruise will drop soon on Paramount Plus. The new part doesn't have a number in its title, suggesting it might have its own complete story while also allowing for possible future IMF adventures. Tom Cruise will start working on Mission: Impossible — Dead…

While Pom Klementieff is best know for playing Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s now part of another action-heavy Hollywood franchise. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, one of the bigger 2023 movie releases, saw her playing Paris, a French assassin of few words working for the rogue AI known as The Entity. Dead Reckoning left Paris’ fate on an ambiguous note, so did she die or not? Well, since Klementieff has been shown in action on the set of Mission: Impossible 8, we can rest easy knowing she’ll be…

In order to be on track for net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry will need to cut emissions from production and processing t by about 60% by 2030. That’s a huge jump, and one that will cost about $600 billion between now and the end of the decade.  Slimming down production emissions won’t be enough to reach net-zero though, so companies will also need to find ways to pivot and invest money and expertise into new technologies while ramping down fossil fuel production. Reaching the international climate goals set…

A little after halfway through Oppenheimer, fresh off the success of the Trinity atomic bomb testing near his beloved Los Alamos in the US state of New Mexico, the film’s titular protagonist learns that Little Boy, the atomic bomb he helped develop, has been dropped on Hiroshima. J Robert Oppenheimer’s invention is a raging success, as the then-US president Harry S Truman informs him. But the former cannot be persuaded. The shock of his promethean act takes away the light in his eyes, and when it comes back, it betrays…