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Many recent live-action takes on Batman have been centered around a younger version of the character. Whether we're talking about the newbie Dark Knight seen in "Batman Begins," the even younger Robert Pattinson iteration from "The Batman," or the teenage Bruce Wayne who leads "Gotham," there are plenty of rookie Batman tales to go around. Though Christopher Nolan highlighted a well-established Batman in "The Dark Knight Rises," it wasn't until "Batman v Superman" that we saw a truly seasoned Caped…

If recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing outside your apartment and trying to peek through your windows at night with binoculars obsessed.If the films were smarter or more daring, Pakistan might be flattered. Instead, we are beginning to be mildly confused by all the attention.Even though our common neighbour China has taken – without too much of a struggle and aided by a helpful press blackout in India – 38,000 sq km of…

As Marvel fans well know, death isn’t necessarily the end in the superhero universe as we’ve seen various characters come back from the great beyond in the MCU. And that’s now more possible than ever thanks to the introduction of the multiverse. Still, one superhero team that made their debut in the franchise’s recently concluded Phase Four really seemed to have been wiped out for good, but that hasn’t stopped fans from theorizing of a smart way they could return. Whether we want them to or not. The team in question is,…

It seems safe to say that Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a bona fide success. Within days of being released on Netflix it quickly scaled to the top of the streamer’s top 10, and the film currently stands with a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Once again, director Rian Johnson found success by taking private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) and having him sort through a group of wealthy eccentrics to solve a murder — this time with a cast boasting the likes of Kathryn Hahn, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe,…

In 1971, 19-year-old musician Paul Southwell left Accrington and headed for the bright lights. At that time London’s gay scene consisted of a selection of seedy pubs, after-hours basement drinking dens and regular discos organised by the Gay Liberation Front, which had formed the previous October. But none of the acts playing GLF events were out: most of the entertainment was supplied by decidedly straight bands.Southwell would change that. Alongside Dave Jenkins and Alan Jordan, he formed Handbag, a powerpop band whose…

Andor has been an excellent revitalization of the Star Wars franchise on Disney+, as the show has wrapped up its first 12-episode season with a level of emotion and drama fitting of its atmosphere, all the while sowing the seeds for what we should see in season 2. The gritty, grounded premise of this latest venture has proven to be tantalizing sci-fi TV, showing the humanity and embers of the Rebellion being nurtured at a grassroots level often not seen in the franchise. The series has done an excellent job with its…

Previous rumors of Apple's iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max getting an 8P camera might have been wide of the mark, according to a new report.The camera upgrade, rumored for a while now, would see the new Pro models getting an upgraded camera setup to differentiate them from the non-Pro models further. But now analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that might not be the case.No-go KuoI think the rumored iPhone 15 Pro series's adoption of an 8P lens won't likely come true.October 30, 2022See moreThe 8P references the number of…

House of the Dragon cemented itself as one of the best shows currently streaming on HBO Max and aired on HBO with an explosive finale that finally began the Dance of the Dragons. After 10 episodes of development spanning 20+ years and multiple storylines, the show finally delivered on its promise of fire and blood and officially kickstarted the Dance following Lucerys Velaryon’s death at the hands of his uncle, Aemond Targaryen. In a major departure from Fire & Blood, Lucerys’ death was accidental, adding an…

Apple's addition of Crash Detection to its latest Apple Watches and iPhones has caused quite a stir, and early testing has shown it to work pretty well. But a new round of tests carried out by the Wall Street Journal shows that Crash Detection isn't as flawless as we might have hoped.In fact, in a number of tests, the Crash Detection feature simply refused to work at all.No crashes detectedThe video, which we've embedded below, is as entertaining as you might have come to expect from a WSJ project. In it, we see a derby…

Talking to Maggie Gyllenhaal can be a little disorienting. She has a high-pitched, cartoonish voice, which she uses to express deep things. One critic notoriously said that she possessed a “Kewpie-doll silliness”, but clearly it’s a flaw in our culture that we expect serious thoughts to be couched in sonorous tones. “We live in a masculine world,” she says, “and in America – especially very recently – as much as we would like to believe otherwise, it’s a misogynistic world.”The 41-year-old, Oscar-nominated for Crazy Heart…