Ruined

"This song has been a quiet beacon for me," Big Thief singer says 2024 will be Adrianne Lenker‘s year. The singer-songwriter has previewed her new solo album with the lovesick single “Ruined.” The track is sparse, with the lightest of instrumentation to best showcase Lenker’s silky, unwavering vocals: “Can’t get enough of you/You come around I’m ruined.” The accompanying clip, directed by her brother Noah, features the singer immersed in nature. She walks amongst trees, a riverbed, and dances…

Tinder is adding many new, pretty basic, features, including the profile prompts and basic info tags other dating apps, like Hinge or Bumble, have. Profile prompts, for example, are a long-standing feature on both, with Tinder users now able to share their responses to statements like “The first item on my bucket list is… ” or “Two truths and a lie.”The dating app points to Gen Z’s responses in its recent Future of Dating report as motivation for the updates, saying: “At Tinder, we understand that connecting today is…

Mutation, it is the key to our survival. That’s what Patrick Stewart told us 23 years ago when Fox launched the X-Men movie universe, and while he was talking about humanity, it’s also true of the hero team’s franchise itself. With the rights to the X-Men now resting with Marvel Studios, we’re about to see the likes of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool mutate their way into the MCU. Of course, Deadpool 3 won’t actually get here until next May, but a new nemesis has already risen up, one far more…

Andy Boxall/Digital Trends Ahead of going away for a few days, I decided to swap from the phone I’d just finished reviewing to the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, ensuring I had a great camera with me while on my break. Nothing odd about that, right? Usually, no, except I was coming from the diminutive Asus Zenfone 10, and picking up the S23 Ultra afterward felt like I’d chosen to take a 12.9-inch iPad Pro as my replacement device. For a short while, the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s enormous dimensions bordered on the laughably…

Image via 20th Century Fox Original superhero stories are getting harder and harder to come by as the genre edges closer towards saturation point on an annual basis, but there’s no denying that Chronicle still stands tall more than a decade on from its release as one of the most strikingly unique entries to the genre the 21st Century has seen. Found footage in itself was well past tired by the time the movie arrived in 2021, but painting it in a fresh coat of superpowered paint turned out to be a masterstroke…

Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Wireimage Their rivalry may have become the stuff of legend, but at least Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone managed to mend fences and become the firmest of friends, which is remarkable in and of itself given the levels of ego in play during their heated rivalry to be designated the biggest action star in the business. Whether they were firing shots at each other in the media, seeing who could rack up the biggest body count onscreen, or even hoodwinking the other into…

Ungainly title aside, it’s hard to see next month’s release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One as anything other than a huge lap of honour for Tom Cruise.The film was shot during Covid, and leaked on-set audio of Cruise being, let’s say, explosively responsible about social distancing gave him the air of the only man alive who cared about the pandemic. It’s the first film of his released since Top Gun: Maverick single handedly reminded people that cinemas still existed. And, what’s more, the slow drip of…

Screengrab via YouTube Warning: this article contains major spoilers for The Flash The Flash is not just a film that ended the Snyderverse as we know it, it’s also a giant homage to the DC franchise as a whole. The film is based on the Flashpoint storyline, in which Barry Allen (played by Ezra Miller) goes back in time to save his mother. However, in exchange, he creates a world with no meta-humans and has to relive the events of Zod’s invasion from Man of Steel. Aside from reliving past events, the film also…

The idea of deleting scenes from a film by renowned actor-director Orson Welles would be sacrilege today. But just after he made his masterpiece Citizen Kane for RKO in 1941, studio executives butchered his next great movie, The Magnificent Ambersons, burning extensive footage without consulting him.Welles was so devastated that he later lamented: “They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me.”Although the film is still considered a masterpiece and is admired for its visual creativity, expressionistic lighting and complex…

@evleaks / Twitter Motorola keeps churning out phones across all price brackets, from flagships in the Edge series to clamshell foldables in the Razr lineup. But barely any have managed to stand out against established rivals like Samsung. In 2023, that just might change with the upcoming Razr 40 Ultra/Razr Ultra, a flip folding phone that looks astonishingly good, functionally ahead of the competition, and with impressive hardware inside. This phone looks like Motorola finally decided to go all out and give the best…