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There are interesting ideas – and a tremendous final choir sequence – in this scary movie; it offers a critique of British colonialism, and also plays with the text of Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem The White Man’s Burden that urged the United States to assume the thankless imperial task of civilising and subjugating the people of the Philippines, and nobly overlooking how ungrateful they are going to be. There is ingenuity here, and good acting, but the film for me feels flawed by its strained melodrama, an absence of…

Capcom is back with another VR mode, and this time it’s for Resident Evil 4 Remake. That was enough for me to dust off my PS VR2 to see whether I’d be treated to an experience as good as Resident Evil Village’s phenomenal VR mode. As is the case with Resident Evil Village, the VR mode is only available for the main story of RE4 Remake, but this time around you have trophies! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time playing RE 4 virtually so far, and while I’ve yet to complete the lengthy campaign, there are so many epic…

It’s been an interesting year for fans of Junji Ito. 2023 will be bookended by animated adaptations of the famed horror master’s work; it started with Netflix’s anthology in January, while Adult Swim’s take on Uzumaki is expected by the end of the year. And right in the middle is a new collection of his work in English with Mimi’s Tales of Terror. It’s a series of short stories inspired by urban legends — just the thing for dark, cold October nights.The book is actually an adaptation itself, taking nine stories from Shin…

No Way Home actor Tom Holland, reflecting on his life in Hollywood, has said that while he likes making movies, he doesn’t like the Hollywood life, adding that it is not really for him as the entertainment industry “scares” him. On a podcast, Holland said, “Look, I am a massive fan of making movies, but I do not like Hollywood, it is not for me. The business really scares me. I understand that I am a part of that business, and I enjoy my interactions with it. But that said, I am always looking for…

Spider-Man actor Tom Holland recently revealed in an interview with the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast that he doesn’t like Hollywood. “I am a huge fan of making movies, but I really don’t like Hollywood. It’s not for me,” confessed the 27-year-old actor. “The business aspect really scares me. I understand that I’m a part of that business, and I enjoy my interactions with it. However, I am always looking for ways to distance myself from it and live as normal a life as possible.” Holland began his acting career at the…

Image: Disney/PixarElemental’s box office has been sparking up since its mid-June release. According to the weekend’s box office reporting from Variety, Pixar’s romcom has now earned $251.9 million globally, something of a surprise given how it initially seemed like it would fizzle out as other films popped up over the summer. But over the last several weeks, Disney’s done a better job at conveying what the film actually is and relating it to the real world context of its director Peter Sohn. Combined with people now…

3. The national number of cremations for 2022 was omitted from China’s quarterly routine data reports, obscuring information relevant to understanding the covid-19 wave that followed China’s easing of pandemic restrictions. (CNN) 4. Despite being designated a national security threat in China, the US semiconductor company Micron is investing $603 million in a chip packaging facility in the country. (Reuters $) 5. France is pushing for an EU investigation and tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Other EU countries…

Photo via Netflix Say what you will about the streaming giant, but Netflix has proven time and time again to be the most diverse player in the streaming world today; diverse, that is, in how it manages to get involved with news ranging from embarrassing to heinous to inconvenient to baffling, all while only being directly responsible for a portion of it. Indeed, no one attracts misfortune and poor decisions like Netflix, which took a rather unorthodox dive into another IP as it prepares for damage control in…

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter In Stephen King’s 1973 short story The Boogeyman, a man named Lester Billings, laid out stiff as a corpse on his therapist’s couch, recounts the death of his three children. All of them, he insists, were slain by a creature living deep inside their bedroom closet. It’s an odd work, and more disturbing even than King’s usual output. Lester behaves appallingly in casual conversation, and it…

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Something really scary is happening. It’s an internet-powered horror story unfolding in front of us in three interwoven acts: (1) AI technology is improving fast enough that I recently had a bit of an existential crisis, wondering if I, too, was an AI. (2) People have no idea what’s real and what isn’t on the internet. (3) With the 2024 presidential election coming up, we have a recipe for disaster. We may be so comprehensively…