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Carbs did not survive the apocalypse.Image: Roadside AttractionsBill Skarsgård came to mainstream attention playing Pennywise in the It movies, and he’ll soon be seen as The Crow’s undead hero as well as Nosferatu’s vampire. But he’s clearly not casting aside roles that don’t involve prosthetics and make-up, as this beefy first look at Boy Kills World reveals.Directed by first-time feature helmer Moritz Mohr and with Sam Raimi among its producers, Boy Kills World looks to have some John Wick in its DNA; it’s the story of…

Image: Warner Bros.Wonka—the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel—has screened for critics, and the reactions are mixed... but mostly good.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedDirected by Paul King (Paddington) and starring Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka, Warner Bros.’ Wonka sets out to deepen the origin of the eccentric candy factory owner from Roald Dahl’s classic 1964 novel—and previously played by Gene Wilder in 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. (Also, there was that other…

Not even the fierce wattage of Toni Collette’s talent can light up this hokey crime comedy, a kind of wacky mobster spin on the idea of the unhappy American woman finding herself and learning to love again in a luxury Euro-tourist paradise; Mafia Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, perhaps. It’s directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a story idea by French author and film-maker Amanda Sthers, who gave us Madame – another film into which Collette tried valiantly but unsuccessfully to breathe some life.Here she plays Kristin, an…

Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar remnant that keeps its light elements separate, in a strange first.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerThe object is a white dwarf, an ancient core of a dead star. White dwarfs are small (hence their name, obviously), clocking in at about the size of Earth, but with a mass similar to that of the Sun. Under their intense gravity, heavier elements sink towards the center of the dwarf, while lighter elements float nearer to its surface.The recently…

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: Beware, heritage auctions, pre-code horrorThis cover for Beware #12 from 1954 is crazy cool, and probably scared people back then. Go to Heritage Auctions to buy it.Heritage Auctions has more pre-code horror and sci-fi than you can shake a stick at, and for my money, this is one of the coolest, weirdest covers that I have seen go through there. So much to unpack here. Beware #12, published by Trojan in 1954, had to frighten people on the newsstand, right? The…

Four walks, a knock and a balk. These were the primary ingredients in the witches brew of a cocktail that the Dodgers stirred together for a wacky eighth-inning rally that capped an 8-7 come-from-behind victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday.A crowd of 49,281 at Chavez Ravine, their voices hoarse from booing Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman, the two holdovers from Houston’s 2017 electronic sign-stealing team, cranked up the volume in the final three innings, when the Dodgers overcame a 7-3 deficit to beat the defending…

The notorious climate pattern known as El Niño has arrived, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today. El Niño often triggers more extreme weather around the world, although we’ll have to wait and see how things shake out this year.Heat is one of its trademarks. A warning from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in May said that this year’s El Niño, combined with climate change, might “push global temperatures into uncharted territory.” The world’s hottest year on record was 2016,…

This cosmic midlife-crisis drama written and directed by Colin West has a pleasingly homecrafted feel, amiably impatient dialogue and metaphysical prickles, especially with a climactic twist that’s akin to the one-sided Moebius strip paradox mentioned by one of the characters. It flips our expectations while connecting back to what we’ve seen before, running sci-fi back into science and chance into predestination.American comic Jim Gaffigan stars as floundering TV presenter Cameron Edwin, the host of wacky children’s…

CultureFilmFeaturesThe Battle for Best PictureIt may have swept awards season so far, but the Daniels’ absurdist comedy-drama is still an underdog in this race. Annabel Nugent makes the case that it’s a rare frontrunner actually worthy of the top prizeSaturday 11 March 2023 06:30Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once' (A24) CultureFilmFeaturesThe Battle for Best PictureIt may have swept awards season so far, but the Daniels’ absurdist comedy-drama is still an underdog in…

Screenshots of a maniacal, unhinged Bing chatbot have flooded the internet this week, showing the bot condescending, gaslighting and trying to steal husbands. The images, portraying the worst of Bing’s behavior, might seem troubling for Microsoft, whose business is built on trust (search) and reliability (enterprise software). But in reality, the company is celebrating.  Even in its weirdest moments, Bing’s chatbot has brought new relevance to Microsoft and its search division. Its previously-flatlining Bing app almost…