Month: October 2020

As Wales entered its 17-day Coronavirus ‘firebreak’ lockdown, they implemented a ban on supermarkets selling ‘non-essential items’ in an attempt to restrict the amount of time customers are spending in shops. But since then, tens of thousands of people have signed a petition to reverse the ban, describing it as ‘disproportionate and cruel’, which has
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Judith Sheindlin is headed to streaming. The Judge Judy star’s untitled new court show (aka Judy Justice) has been greenlighted by Amazon Studios to stream exclusively on IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service. The Untitled Judge Judy Sheindlin Project, distributed by Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment, will feature no-nonsense, expeditious Sheindlin’s signature adjudication style with a
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Additionally the campaign has deployed legal maneuvers that could disqualify thousands of mail-in ballots, successfully suing to block election officials from accepting ballots without inner envelopes. According to one Philadelphia official, such a disqualification could lead to the rejection of more than 100,000 ballots; in 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 44,292 votes in Pennsylvania. Although
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This beguiling book by Mikael Niemi is a mash up of genres with historical crime, coming-of-age and literary novel tropes that manages to be reflective and page-turning. In Sweden in 1852 real life revivalist Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, and Jussi, a runaway Sami boy, turn detective and use pioneering forensic methods to investigate the death of a milkmaid
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In a surprising turn of events, Remedy’s Control Ultimate Edition – Cloud Version is now available on the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo eShop. But it turns out, that’s not the only big news (well, rumour) that’s come from this announcement. After snooping around the Control Ultimate Edition – Cloud Version website where you access
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You know what Julie Chen says: Expect the unexpected. But this is 2020, so Big Brother All-Stars, played exactly the opposite of how many of us Big Brother fans would like: It’s been expected. After being part of The Committee—the large alliance who dominated the house nearly the entire season—Nicole Franzel and Cody Calafiore found themselves in the final three along
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Pedro Almodovar, Agnieszka Holland and Paweł Pawlikowski are among 592 signatories to a letter calling for the introduction of a levy that would see streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon be forced to re-invest at least 25% of their turnover in European countries back into local independent industry. This debate is raging across Europe.
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It’s hard to imagine anyone besides Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, but we have to admit, Kelsea Ballerini makes a pretty good sorority-girl-turned-lawyer. Just a few days before Halloween, on Oct. 28, the country singer revealed her costume on TikTok, where she re-created the iconic Legally Blonde scene where Elle introduces the “bend and snap.”
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For the past four years, a debate has raged in media circles over news networks carrying Donald Trump’s speeches live on air. In October 2016, just weeks before Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, CNN president Jeff Zucker admitted that his network may have made a “mistake” by broadcasting “too many of [Trump’s] campaign rallies,” a remark
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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Stories about a man repeating a bloody day running from the Yakuza; a woman’s violent encounter with her mirror image; a woman and her laser gun fighting of a shadowy demon; and a man being cursed by the famous Hachi-statue to become a werewolf pining for a prostitute. REVIEW: Tokyo Grand
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Coroner is no stranger to repressed trauma, but Coroner Season 2 Episode 4 brought things to a whole new level. Repression has been at the center of the show since we first saw that black dog on Coroner Season 1 Episode 1. Usually, it’s just Jenny repressing things. In recent episodes, we’ve seen a bit
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Courtesy of Rebag / PAUL DE LUNA Since Rebag’s founding in 2014, the reseller site has built a small empire of gently-used designer used bags, everything from vintage Fendi to one-of-a-kind Hermès Birkins. Earlier this year, they launched a selection of accessories, and now the company is expanding even further by venturing into watches and
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