Warning: mild Black Panther spoilers ahead Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther has a major part for Andy Serkis’ Ulysses Klaue, and now the man himself is teasing what would be on the villain’s mixtape. Keeping with the comedic tone of the MCU and similar to the recent Thor: Ragnarok, Klaue emerged as an unlikely source of laughter in the movie. With an all-star cast that includes Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B....
Antoine Fuqua is known for crafting action-packed thrillers with a gritty, dangerously realistic edge. From Training Day to The Equalizer, there’s a strong aura of testosterone-fueled masculinity to his work, though his films always come with an unexpected dose of claustrophobic intimacy, forcing audiences to empathize, or at least understand, the mindset of the complex characters at the center of his stories. The Equalizer is shaping up to be an surprisingly lucrative franchise....
For some time now, many moviegoers have begun to opt for watching newer theatrical releases from the comfort of their own home, and the proliferation of high-definition, wide-screen televisions readily afforded to general consumers has only made that alternative more attractive. It’s a hassle to get to the theater, and oftentimes it’s even harder to track down a local screening of some of the smaller, independent releases from year-to-year. Up until this point, online video and on-demand services like iTunes have seen fit to offer rental downloads of several motion picture productions for potential viewers at a fraction of the price allotted to regular movie theater admission....
With the release of iOS 15.1, macOS Monterey, and other Apple operating systems, the company also announced that its Apple Fitness+ service will expand to an additional 15 regions starting on November 3. During the “California Streaming” event, Apple announced that Apple Fitness+ would be expanding to Austria, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, and the UAE later this year. Now, the company revealed that all of these countries will receive the service starting next week....
Every week, Apple reveals a new exclusive offer for Apple Pay users in the US, and this week’s offer is for customers of the popular grocery delivery service Instacart. The company is offering up to $30 off orders placed at Instacart for those who pay with Apple Pay. According to an email sent by Apple to users on Thursday, customers who have never ordered from Instacart can get $30 off their first order of $50 or more....
Apple has announced a handful of technical changes coming to the Apple Podcasts back end, starting in 2023. These changes impact the approval process, will help cut down on podcaster spam, and much more. Here are the details. First and foremost, Apple said that Apple Podcasts will no longer support the “owner tag” and its contact information in podcast RSS feeds. This means that podcasters will no longer have to put their email addresses in the feed details, a change that should significantly cut down on spam issues....
One week after releasing tvOS 15.5 to the public, Apple has a new bug fix update available to Apple TV, HomePod, and HomePod mini users. The company is now rolling out tvOS 15.5.1, which is a small update and addresses some issues Apple TV and HomePod users have been experiencing since the release of tvOS 15.5. Apple says tvOS 15.5.1 for Apple TV and HomePod addresses an issue where music could stop playing after a short time....
A second Apple union-busting charge has been filed against the company, alleging that the company has violated multiple federal laws at the World Trade Center store. A previous charge of violating the National Labor Relations Act related to Apple’s response to unionization efforts at an Apple Store in Atlanta … Background We first learned of retail staff plans to unionize back in February, when groups at two stores were reportedly preparing paperwork to file with the National Labor Relations Board, with about six more locations at earlier stages of planning....
A wide range of valuable new running features comes with watchOS 9. From heart rate zones and stride length, ground contact time to vertical oscillation, and new features like ghost racing your personal best and creating custom workouts, here’s a hands-on look at the new Apple Watch running metrics in watchOS 9. Whether you’re already an avid runner, just getting started, or want to make deliberate progress, watchOS 9 offers the most robust Apple Watch running metrics to date....
Apple Watch has a number of invaluable health features that have proven to save lives over the years. Now the most recent example is a powerful story about how Apple Watch’s heart health features can uncover hidden health issues that could prove deadly if gone undetected. Reported by CBS News, a Maine woman who at one point thought her Apple Watch was malfunctioning now “swears by it.” Apple Watch heart notifications In May, Kim Durkee saw warnings from her Apple Watch two nights in a row warning her that her heart was experiencing atrial fibrillation....
Aquaman’s gigantic box office numbers reflect the success that comes with Warner Bros. learning from their past marketing mistakes with the DCEU. While there were plenty of people who had predicted that Aquaman would exceed conservative expectations and overcome lukewarm hype to become a box office success, few could have foreseen just how big a deal it would become. In less than a month, the latest addition to the oft-beleaguered DC Extended Universe has grossed over $940....
The latest poster released for Aquaman just got a fan edit that hilariously names all the sea creatures that appear on the poster. In the poster, a variety of sea life surrounds Aquaman, so it was only a matter of time before someone decided that they all deserved names. In Aquaman, Jason Momoa stars as Arthur Curry, a half-human and half-Atlantean who must juggle the needs of the surface world with the demands of the world beneath the oceans....
A Hasbro collectible for Avengers: Infinity War has given fans their best look yet at the Infinity Gauntlet worn by Thanos (Josh Brolin). The Infinity Gauntlet was first teased in Thor, when eagle-eyed viewers spotted the famous artifact in Odin’s vault. Marvel retconned that as a fake, and instead Avengers: Age of Ultron revealed that the Gauntlet has been in Thanos’s possession all along. In this year’s Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos will come to Earth....
The title of Avengers 4 remains one of Marvel’s most closely-guarded secrets - but could the film actually be called Avengers: Divide and Conquer? Marvel originally claimed they were holding the title back because it would somehow spoil the ending of Avengers: Infinity War. That film released back in April, though, so the title would long since have ceased to have that kind of effect. It’s now looking as though Marvel’s reticence is, at heart, a smart marketing ploy....
Bandcamp, an online platform where fans can buy songs and support artists they like, released an update to its iOS and Android app this week to add an important new feature. With the update, users can finally queue up songs, and even entire albums, to play next. As announced by the company on Twitter (via Engadget), the latest version of Bandcamp’s mobile app for iOS and Android now has a queue – a feature well known to people who use services like Apple Music and Spotify....
Although it’s often times a very funny comedy, HBO’s new series Barry is no stranger to sequences of extreme violence and moments that weigh heavily emotionally. The latter is especially true of Sarah Goldberg’s Sally, whose dream of becoming a movie star seems to be quickly slipping away, as the reality of her situation and the brutality of the world around her gradually sets in. The series explored as much over a recent three episode arc, starting with ‘Chapter Three: Make the Unsafe Choice,’ which saw Sally auditioning for a small role on a project where the lead was one of her contemporaries....
[Potential mild spoilers for Alien: Covenant] - Alien: Covenant is both a sequel and a prequel; it will ostensibly show a xenomorph-tinged horror adventure set a few decades before the 1979 original, but will also address several of the dangling plot threads left by Ridley Scott’s previous return to the franchise he created, Prometheus. Michael Fassbender is back as both David and new android Walter, and there’s the long-speculated return of Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw (in some form)....
To celebrate Alien’s 40th anniversary in 2019, 20th Century Fox has launched a short film competition for fans. Alien became an instant classic upon release in 1979 thanks to Ridley Scott’s taut direction, H.R Giger’s art design, and the amazing cast, including Sigourney Weaver as Ripley. James Cameron’s Aliens followed in 1986, tilting the genre from horror to action, and one that expanded the mythology while delivering great set pieces, characters, and dialogue....
For most of American Horror Story’s run, series co-creator Ryan Murphy has always seemed to enjoy keeping details about upcoming seasons as close to the vest as possible for as long as possible. This practice of course reached an infamous new extreme this year, with fans receiving almost no information at all about the show’s sixth season prior to its premiere a couple weeks back. Instead, dozens of unrelated teasers were released, with only one hinting at season 6’s actual theme....
Annihilation director Alex Garland has admitted he’s disappointed with the film’s Netflix distribution deal. Annihilation is based on the first book in a trilogy from author Jeff VanderMeer, and the story involves an all-female research team heading into an environmental disaster zone labelled Area X. Inside they find all sorts of strange creatures and plant mutations, and their sanity slowly begins to crumble the deeper they investigate. Natalie Portman will play the lead for the film version, and while writer/director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) changed some key story details, by all accounts Annihilation will retain the novel’s dreamy, psychological structure....
