Month: August 2021

Disney+’s first TV series launch, the nine-episode WandaVision combined a wholly original premise that somehow felt familiar by its blatant homage to classic sitcoms that the witch Wanda conjured to mask her grief in losing her soulmate, Vision, to a brutal death we all saw in Avengers: Infinity War. Having Wanda mask her grief by
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The upcoming sixth and final season of Disney Television Studios’ mega-hit This Is Us is sure to see some emotionally stirring storylines. In fact, during Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event, series creator Dan Fogelman said he brought studio execs to tears during a Season 6 story pitch meeting on Zoom. “People were crying to
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SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the Season 1 finale of HBO’s The White Lotus. “Now, we are starting down a very dark road,” Shane Patton (Jake Lacy) says in tonight’s episode of The White Lotus, “and you’d better be sure you really want to go there.” While the wealthy man-child’s comments are directed
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One night while trying something other than endlessly doomscrolling for stories about Donald Trump, climate change, and the pandemic, I chanced upon an ad for an odd scented candle. We’ve become accustomed to these sorts of things (thanks, Gwyneth!), but I’d never imagine I’d find a candle that smells like a record store. DW Home’s
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Nightdive have finally taken the wraps off of their upcoming remaster of Powerslave with a brand-new trailer. Revealed during the Realms Deep 2021 event, the cult shooter originally created by Lobotomy Software was originally announced last year. Combining the PlayStation and Saturn versions of the game to create the definitive experience, Powerslave: Exhumed will be
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Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout
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Shang-Chi star Simu Liu has fired back at Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s comments, who recently described the release of the next Marvel film as an “interesting experiment.” Unlike recent Disney releases, which premiered simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ for Premier Access, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will play exclusively in theaters
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The Lambda Coronavirus variant is believed to have come from Peru, where cases seem to be subsiding, but the UK is playing close attention to the strain since it’s hitting South America hard, and could potentially be more transmissible than the Delta variant. Here’s everything you need to know. What is the Lambda Covid variant?
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Kourtney Kardashian has chopped her hair into a shoulder-skimming lob, and now we want to chop off our hair into a shoulder-skimming lob. It comes after the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star let her boyfriend Travis Barker cut her previously waist-length hair whilst in quarantine. While it wasn’t revealed why the pair had to
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The erratic British weather has well and truly outdone itself lately: one minute it’s pure blue skies, the next it’s torrential rain and darkness at midday. We all know the science behind seasonal affective disorder (SAD), but it turns out these sorts of short-lived changes in the weather also take a toll on our physical
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