EXCLUSIVE: Avengers and Captain America star Anthony Mackie is to lead cast in and produce action-sci-fi Outside The Wire for Netflix with Mikael Håfström (Escape Plan) on board to direct. Set in the future, Mackie will play a drone pilot sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked […]
SAINSBURY’S will pay you 5p for every plastic bottle or drinks can that you recycle in store. The supermarket has launched its first reverse vending machine as part of a trial that it plans to roll out to more stores. Customers put bottles of any size up to three litres and aluminium cans into the […]
Robotics developers and the general public can find inspiration for exploring the oceans in a new fiction anthology from XPRIZE entitled Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology.
Right now, it can seem almost comically difficult to be Jewish. We’ve seen worse times, obviously, but the last year has brought us murders in Pittsburgh and in Poway, Cal., a substantial spike in anti-Semitic graffiti and hate crimes, and a painful internal debate about new members of Congress who seem, to many of us, anti-Semitic. Meanwhile, Jewish literacy is paltry, and birth and marriage rates are, except in the Orthodox community, low. In such a time as this, Judaism can feel like a fraternity nobody would ever want to join. Читать дальше...
Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman are dapper in suits as they hit the red carpet at the 2019 AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony honoring Denzel Washington held at the Dolby Theatre on Thursday (June 6) in Hollywood. The 32-year-old actor and Chadwick, 41, were joined at the event by their Black Panther co-star Mahershala [...]
Popular industry blog Yuemuchina recently named the “new big four” companies that it believes have edged out the old guard studios and now dominate the Middle Kingdom movie scene. Along with obvious choices of tech giant Tencent and Beijing Culture, a producer on a hot streak, the list also included Bona Film Group. Given that […]
The presidential candidate and former vice president does a 180 on the Hyde Amendment, as we suspected.
Lindsey Graham has two sources of power in Washington: his gavel and his golf clubs.
India will look to end their campaign in the King's Cup football tournament on a positive note when they take on hosts Thailand in the third-place play-off match here Saturday. While revenge will be on Thailand's mind after the 4-1 in the AFC Asian Cup in January. Speaking at the pre-match press conference, India coach Igor Stimac made clear his intentions of continuing from where his team left off against Curacao. Despite a brave effort in the second half, India lost 3-1 to Curacao. "We want to... Читать дальше...
Shortstop Paul DeJong's seventh-inning home run proved to be the difference in a St. Louis Cardinals win against the Cincinnati Reds.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to visit Iran in an effort to reduce tensions between Tehran and Washington
Paul Clement, who worked with the Portuguese superstar during Carl Ancelotti’s reign in the Spanish capital, has lifted the lid on a positional tweak
Liam Gallagher wanted to “break” brother Noel Gallagher’s “f****** jaw” after he refused to let him use Oasis music in his documentary As It Was. The 46-year-old insisted he’s not “sad” and didn’t “cry” over it, but he was left fuming and felt like smashing Noel and his manager’s windows in when he found out. […]
The Congress' Karnataka unit chief Dinesh Gundu Rao Friday said he is sending a report to the partyhigh command against senior legislator Roshan Baig, who had recently hit out at the state leadership holding them responsible for the party's rout in Lok Sabha polls. He, however, indicated that another senior party MLA Ramalinga Reddy, who had recently accused the state congress leadership of neglecting seniors, would be inducted into the ministry in the next cabinet reshuffle, whenever it takes place. Читать дальше...
Robin Wright and Chris Pine sat down for a chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors. For more, click here. Robin Wright and Chris Pine both appeared in the 2017 action blockbuster “Wonder Woman,” and both have continued living out its vision of bold female power in their careers. Wright brought the final season of Netflix’s […]
The EU cultivates the impression that it is desperately cheerleading Ankara’s accession, only to be disappointed. In fact, letting Turkey join would entail a decision over the future of the European Union which no one, for now, seems ready to make, writes Faisal Al Yafai.
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee became one of the latest institutions of higher learning to face a free speech controversy after a student held a sign bearing a swastika.
The identity for the museum’s new exhibition — D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion — is based on ticker tape, the dotted paper used to record and send coded messages in World War Two.
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A few years ago a company called Next Things Co introduced a small, cheap computer called C.H.I.P. that sold for as little as $9, but which could be combined with add-ons to create a handheld PC or other projects. After releasing a few products, Next Thing Co went out of business. but the company’s devices […]
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I wanted to give my soccer-playing 9-year-old a game with players that looked like her. I found out it doesn’t exist.
The pre-title credits proclaiming Bona Film Group’s Yu Dong and Jeffrey Chan as executive producers of Quentin Tarantino’s “One Upon a Time … in Hollywood” leave no doubt that the Chinese company is a significant piece of the ongoing — and sometimes uneasy — relationship between the U.S. and Chinese film industries. More than that, […]
The man behind Sunset Tower Hotel takes us on a tour of his neighborhood.
Hwang Ui-jo's second goal in as many meetings with Australia gave South Korea a late 1-0 win in a largely drama-free friendly in Busan on Friday.