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Psychological horror films love digging into the minds of artists—a pursuit that becomes self-reflexive when the troubled character is a filmmaker. Stopmotion explores that trope from a visually dynamic point of view, following a young stop-motion animator on a dangerous downward spiral.Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis VilleneuveDirected and co-written by Robert Morgan, who also crafted the film’s eerily tactile stop-motion sequences, Stopmotion introduces us to Ella (The Last Voyage of the…

Angry readers flooded TikTok and the GoodReads page of an author’s forthcoming book with one-star reviews after the author attacked one particular reviewer for rating the novel four out of five stars. GoodReads seems to have paused reviews of the book in response, freezing the page as it was on Wednesday. The book’s publisher dropped the author in response to the controversy. The author later apologized to the reviewer privately. Welcome to a bona fide BookTok scandal.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The…

The Queensland poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the $60,000 Stella prize for her poetry collection The Jaguar.It is the second year running a poet has taken out Australia’s pre-eminent award for women and non-binary writers, in as many years that poetry has been eligible for the prize. Holland-Batt’s win follows Evelyn Araluen’s victory last year for her debut collection Dropbear.Holland-Batt’s father’s diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease and his death two decades later forms the spine of her third collection, with the…

Stella Buzz electric sscooter price in India, availabilityThe Stella Buzz electric scooter has been launched in India at a price of Rs 95,000 (ex-showroom). The Stella Buzz will be offered in four colour options, namely, Grey, Matte Blue, Red, and Brown. The company will offer a standard 3-year warranty on the e-scooter. The company claims that deliveries for the Stella Buzz e-scooter will begin this month.Stella Buzz specificationsThe Stella Buzz e-scooter comes with a 2kW BLDC motor paired with a 2.16kWh lithium iron…

Some books arrive predusted with the shimmer of literary myth. Stella Maris is one of them: Cormac McCarthy’s 12th – and likely final – novel, a tale concocted at the Santa Fe Institute, “a thinktank for maverick brainiacs” where the 89-year-old author spends his days discoursing with quantum physicists and clacking away on his portable typewriter, marinating in genius.For a writer who spurns the conventions of punctuation, Stella Maris feels a lot like a full stop, a parting pronouncement on the whole sordid human…

Jaidka Group-backed Stella Moto is set to mark its entry into the electric two-wheeler market in India. The company revealed plans to launch its first-ever vehicle in this space– the Buzz electric scooter– next month. In an official statement, Stella Moto said that its goal is to design completely indigenous, affordable and well-engineered electric two-wheelers. India has a growing EV market, with sales expected to hit 17 million units by 2030. Also Read: Ola S1 Air Electric Scooter Launched in India at Rs 79,999, Details…

Published a decade and a half ago, The Road might have aptly concluded Cormac McCarthy’s extraordinary career in fiction. What better way of bowing out than with a novel that imagined, in horrifying verisimilitude, the end of all things? But no! Nearing his 90th birthday, McCarthy has returned with two linked novels: one relatively substantial and typical, and the other – presented as a coda and published a month later – spare, sinister and radical.First, the former. Set in the early 1980s, The Passenger charts the…

Stella Gonet played the Queen on the big screen in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, a drama set over Christmas in Sandringham in 1991, starring Kristen Stewart as Diana. Gonet reveals how she channelled the monarch for the role – and what other people’s reactions taught her about the real woman.As soon as I’d come out of makeup with the wig on, people changed totally towards me. It was extraordinary. “Can I get you anything? Can I do anything for you? Are you all right?” Normally people are very tactile with me but they’d…

The next chapter in the Mobile Suit Gundam saga finally has a solid release date, and our latest look at it yet gives a look at its real premise—and perhaps not quite so many giant robot fights as you might first expect.Sunrise has released a new trailer confirming that The Witch From Mercury, the next mainline series in the Gundam franchise, will begin airing on October 2. The new trailer for the series puts the spotlight on the now-teenaged Suletta Mercury—who we saw as an adorable war criminal/toddler in the excellent…

The Gundam Lfrith takes flight.Screenshot: SunriseMobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, the first mainline Gundam series since 2016, won’t properly start until October. But if you want to know what to expect beyond the short glimpses we’ve had already, you’re in for a treat: a new prequel episode just dropped online.The Witch From Mercury Prologue, which made its debut in Japan a few months ago, is now available to stream on the official Gundam Info YouTube channel, the first time it’s been officially publicly made…