Month: September 2020

Four years ago, Amanda Shires wrote a song about abortion — about a group of women talking about another woman getting one, specifically. The subject matter was important, she knew, but the song itself wasn’t fitting quite right alongside her others, so she tucked it away. “I needed time, I think, to think about presenting it to the
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Refresh for latest…: In its fifth weekend at the international box office, Warner Bros’ Tenet added another $15.8M from 56 markets. The offshore cume has risen to $242M for a worldwide total of $283.2M. Christopher Nolan’s time-bending thriller had a strong hold (-30%) in Japan where it debuted at No. 1 last weekend. Benefitting from
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Let’s cut straight to the chase: The Boy Behind the Door is a genuinely dark thriller. Harrowingly dark. More than just putting its child protagonists in constant peril, it broaches pedophiliac subject matter that might be too upsetting and off-putting for some. Consider this a trigger warning. First-time feature filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell plunge straight
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A few months into the pandemic, my local library finally got Normal People as an audiobook on Libby. Whether it was fate or coincidence, I was the first person to hit “Borrow.” Almost as soon as I finished listening to the rather melodic Irish accents, Normal People went from having a waiting list of 0
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It should come as no surprise to After fans that they’ll be getting a third and fourth movie based on the Anna Todd novels. The franchise’s stars Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin made the news of a threequel and fourthquel official today on the movie’s Instagram page, for Todd’s respective After We Fell and After Ever Happy. Both titles are going into production. The
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Search warrants aren’t mere formalities; they’re written into the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution as an independent check on the government’s limited authority to seize and search “persons, houses, papers, and effects” — all things that, to the Founders, represented “the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.” Some 135
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Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books, Anne with an E is a much grittier Netflix series about the young orphan, Anne Shirley. In the late 1890s, thirteen-year-old Anne is adopted by an elderly brother and sister who wanted a boy but decided to keep Anne when they grow to love her wild imagination. Ridiculed at
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A Biosignature Last week, an incredible announcement was made about the search for extraterrestrial life: Phosphine gas detected in the clouds of Venus – a potential indicator of life or “biosignature.” Now some gases might be a false positive for biosignatures because they can be created by other chemical processes on a planet like photochemical
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California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a new law allowing transgender prisoners in the State to be housed based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex. Newsom signed SB 132 Saturday — among other LGBTQ+-friendly legislation — which will require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s officers to privately ask inmates during
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Zac Brown Band multi-instrumentalist Clay Cook and his wife, Brooke, have welcomed their third child. People reports that the country couple welcomed a daughter, Cecilia “Ceci” Ellen Cook, in Newnan, Georgia, on Friday (Sept. 25). Ceci joins her two older brothers, 3 1/2-year-old Charles “Charlie” Robert and Theron “Teddie” Maine, 2. “We could not feel
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Now more than ever, the clothes you wear are more often than not a form of self-expression and a display of one’s unique personality. This week, we’re exploring a few influential fashion brands who are always making a statement with their clothing. Collina Strada (@collinastrada) Created by Hillary Taymour, Collina Strada is a fashion brand
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Systemic Reaction have dropped another gameplay video for their upcoming dino shooter Second Extinction, showing from start to finish a “research and rescue” mission. On top of that, the devs have revealed their plans for Early Access, which kicks off on October 13th. The roadmap (which you can see below) isn’t exactly forthcoming as to
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The first major blockbuster of the pandemic era, The Eight Hundred this week became the No. 1-grossing movie of 2020 worldwide, jumping ahead of Bad Boys For Life ($430.3 million global, per Sony). The Guan Hu-directed war epic has through Friday amassed $434M at the Chinese box office alone, and is also now the 10th
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Lipstick? I don’t know her I love a lip, I really do. A matte rouge bouche will forever make my spine tingle. (Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty Lip Souffle in her signature shade Inspire is…possibly the best matte red lipstick I’ve ever tried? And Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb lives rent free in my heart.) But you know
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The title to Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming Borat sequel has reportedly been unveiled: Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan. It’s an appropriately ridiculous and lengthy name for the follow-up to 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. As
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Back in the mid-’90s, a trio of anthropomorphic cybernetic pizza-delivering felines introduced Western audiences to the sillier side of Japanese anime. Samurai Pizza Cats is a mix of pop culture references, absurd humour, and breaking action. Before Saban brought the series to Canada in 1993 and the U.S. in 1996, Samurai Pizza Cats was ‘Kyatto Ninden Teyandee’
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