Month: January 2020

If you’re a SFF fan whose 2020 To Be Read pile is looking a little bare, we’ve got the perfect giveaway for you. Thanks to our friends at Tor.com Publishing, we’ve got a prize pack containing 28 – yes, 28! – releases from 2019 to give away to one lucky Book Riot reader. To enter
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Gabrielle Union is quite the comedian. The ‘L.A.’s Finest’ star combined audio from the ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ with a precious clip of her husband, Dwyane Wade, feeding their daughter Kaavia. The result was hilarious. Remember when the carnivorous plant repeated “feed me” to the shopkeeper in the 1986 film, Little Shop of Horrors? Apparently,
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It’s been a week since global K-pop sensation BTS announced its seventh studio album, Map of the Soul: 7, and now, ahead of its release, the group has dropped the first single, Black Swan. As previously promised on the band’s detailed “comeback map,” Black Swan was released on Friday along with a contemporary music video directed by
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BLENDING HORROR, SOCIAL COMMENTARY AND MYSTICISM, DIRECTOR BERTRAND BONELLO’S THRILLINGGENRE MASH-UP IS A CAPTIVATING FILM THAT’S“NOT UNDEAD BUT BRACINGLY ALIVE” Opening IN NEW YORK CITY at FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER& QUAD CINEMA ON JANUARY 24, 2020 “With Zombi Child, Bertrand Bonello has made a film that tries to reclaim the zombie’s classic roots. Returning in
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Are you about to lose your job to a robot? Adam Davidson, creator of NPR’s Planet Money, joins Nick Bilton to talk about his new book, The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century, where he argues that capitalism isn’t dead, a (coming) recession won’t destroy America, and the world isn’t
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Getty Therese Dion — mother of international superstar Celine Dion — has died after months of battling serious health issues. Celine’s mom, who was known affectionately in Canada as “Maman Dion,” reportedly passed late Thursday surrounded by her family and friends. Therese’s eldest child, Claudette Dion, revealed last year that her mother had been dealing
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This article contains spoilers for Black Widow Prelude #1. Marvel has finally revealed how Black Widow escaped after the events of Captain America: Civil War. The passing of the Sokovia Accords placed Natasha Romanoff in a difficult place. She believed in the Avengers – perhaps more than even Tony Stark or Steve Rogers – but she swiftly realized
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On the Radar — This week our On the Radar new crime fiction column gets going with a creepy thriller about child snatching by CJ Tudor. We’ve also got two totally different World War II novels, an atmospheric family secrets thriller set on the Hebrides and a serial killer from Liverpool who ends up in
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UPDATED with more early winners: The Producers Guild has revealed winners in some categories ahead of the 31st annual PGA Awards, set for Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium. The early honors were bestowed Monday night at the guild’s East Coast celebration of the 2020 nominees at Ascent Lounge in New York City, and Thursday night
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Longtime international marketing consultant to Steven Spielberg, Gerry Lewis has died. Amblin Partners shared the news today that Lewis, 91, passed in London on January 5. Lewis was an international movie marketing, publicity and distribution consultant who worked in both the British and Hollywood industries for the better part of a century. He consulted at
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