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Georgian director Eldar Shengelaia’s film Blue Mountains from 1983 has already been showcased on the Klassiki streaming service: a clever satire of Soviet bureaucracy. Now one of his earlier films, from 1973, has been revived; aptly entitled The Eccentrics, it is a very different proposition. You’d be hard put to divine a political or satirical meaning here exactly, although you can find one if you really want. This is more a daft, knockabout comedy, a festival of silliness which looks like something the Georgian cousin…

An apartment project is in the works for a shuttered auto repair property in Lincoln Park. Motive Investment Partners, led by Jim Cauley, is preparing to build a five-story, 123-unit complex at 607 and 621 8th Ave. The latter parcel has a building on it that was previously home to Perry & Terry Collision Center, which closed in early 2021. The other lot, located across the alley, is undeveloped and was used to store vehicles. The site is down the road from the Denver Health campus, and a block from West High School.…

This week’s Star Trek: Picard set up big stakes for what will be the very last episode of the series—and you can’t have big stakes without some big threats and big blows for our heroes. But it turns out episode nine’s biggest blow may not matter so much in the grand scheme of things, if Picard showrunner Terry Matalas gets his way.Playing Raffi Throughout Star Trek: PicardSpeaking to Collider in the wake of this week’s surprise decision to see Todd Stashwick’s standout hero Captain Shaw sacrifice it all to save Picard and…

Gwyneth Paltrow, the Hollywood star and lifestyle guru, has prevailed in a dramatic court tussle over contrasting ski-crash claims with the retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, who had sued the actor for liability in a collision on a Utah mountain in 2016. The jury returned after two hours and 20 minutes, finding Sanderson at fault for the crash and at fault for Paltrow’s harm. As Paltrow left the court, she touched Sanderson’s shoulder and said: 'I wish…

Image: DC ComicsBack in the ‘90s, Marvel released several Swimsuit Specials, mimicking the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, but for its audience of horny nerds. The results were... well, tragic might be overselling it, but Marvel heroes (including some male ones) were stuffed in the skimpiest costumes imaginable, often contorted into overtly sexual (and frequently impossible) poses. Thirty years later, DC Comics has decided to follow (swim)suit, but the results are much, much better.These eight variant covers, all due…

A collection of newly rediscovered short stories by Terry Pratchett, originally written under a pseudonym, are to be published later this year.The 20 tales in A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories were written by Pratchett in the 1970s and 1980s for a regional newspaper, mostly under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns. They have never been previously attributed to Pratchett, who died in 2015 aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.The collection was bought by Pratchett’s longtime publisher Transworld…

My earliest reading memoryUnfortunately my memory for this kind of thing is a complete blank, so I’ve decided to manufacture an incident where my copy of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had to be confiscated from me at preschool because I was having too many insights about it.My favourite book growing upI devoured The Colour of Magic and at least 20 other Terry Pratchett novels as a child and consequently have never got over the feeling that there’s something pretty fundamental missing from nearly all “grown-up”…

Image: ParamountAqua Teen Hunger Force will return for a 12th season. Roxanne Benjamin is still working on her Night of the Comet remake. Get another glimpse at The Flash’s final season. Plus, Gotham Knights casting, and a new look at Shazam: Fury of the Gods. Spoilers, away!SéanceDeadline reports Vivian Kerr is attached to direct Séance, a complicated, supernatural relationship drama set in 1890s California. Starring Scottie Thompson, Jilon VanOver, Connor Paolo, and Kerrherself, the story follows “a female novelist…

Terry Hall, who helped create one of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as the lead singer of the band, The Specials, has died. The group announced that Hall, 63, passed away after a brief illness. They called him “our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.” In the late 1970s, during the time of racial tension, economic gloom and urban unrest, Hall joined the band that came to be known as The Specials. Their most…

The Specials frontman Terry Hall died as a result of pancreatic cancer, his bandmate Horace Panter has said.In an emotional note shared on Facebook, the band’s bassist said that the group – then comprising Panter, Hall and guitarist Lynval Golding – had intended to record a new album in Los Angeles in November, produced by Roger Rivas of the Aggrolites.It was to be the reggae album they intended to make in 2020 before Hall’s writer’s block pushed them towards an album of political covers, Protest Songs 1924–2012, released…