John Michael Montgomery was involved in a serious bus crash on Friday (Sept. 9) that left three people injured. The country singer was on his way to a concert in North Carolina when the accident occurred. Montgomery says he’ll need several weeks to recover. WATE-TV in Campbell County, Tenn., shares that the country singer’s bus was traveling
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SATURDAY AM UPDATE: With the exit of New Line’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot in what has been a lucrative post Labor Day weekend pre-pandemic, Disney swooped in and booked its 20th Century Studios horror title Barbarian. That pic, directed and written by Zach Cregger, follows a woman staying at an Airbnb, who discovers that the house she
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Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and
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Phillips has announced the highlights from The Geneva Sessions, the first online auction curated by Phillips’ watch specialists in Geneva. In addition to Patek Philippe, Rolex, Audemars Piguet and F.P. Journe, this tightly curated selection of timepieces will include over 50 lots. There are many styles and budgets to suit with The Geneva Sessions, which
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Faced with an impossible puzzle, lab monkeys in a recent experiment showed unflappable resolve: They continued to guess what they thought must be the correct responses, even when rewards were doled out at random or in ways meant to disincentivize the animals from sticking to their guns. In short, the monkeys’ spuriously learned convictions—their seeming
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Track is his second recent song recorded with producer Vance Powell Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has released a new single, “Born & Raised.” The rollicking track was recorded with producer Vance Powell and features Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and Eagles of Death Metal drummer Julian Doro, along with keyboardist Mike Webb and steel guitarist Luke Schneider. The reflective song
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Weight of the world got you down? Feeling jaded about love? Escape into a world of romance by rediscovering some classics and/or recent gems you may have missed. Here are just a few to get you going. There’s something for everyone on this list — comedies, period pieces, musicals, fantasy, and more! Somewhere In Time
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The movies by anthropologist filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel hinge on proximity. They survey unknown spaces, seeking intimate gateways into new environments and perspectives. With each work, intimacy arises by re-purposing the camera to obliterate the barriers between it and its subjects. In Castaing-Taylor and Paravel’s posthumanist masterwork Leviathan (2012), they adopt an aquatic
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Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and
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Debate has been raging since Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid, made the world’s first commercial polarizing material in 1929: Which are the best polarized sunglasses for men? The field is split. Opinion fractured. Tempers frayed. It seems the nature of the subject has infiltrated and directly influenced the behaviors of the debaters… (if you get
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Kanye West is having an apparent change of heart in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II‘s death, apparently deciding to stop his aggressions toward his most recent enemies. Ye made the announcement late Thursday, hours after the announcement of the British monarch’s death … extending an olive branch to Kid Cudi, Adidas Senior Vice President/General
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The Story of Film: A New Generation opens at two dozen theaters this weekend — Laemmle Royal in LA, Museum of the Moving Image in NY, Music Box Theatre in Chicago and Brattle in Cambridge. It’s a mix of arthouses, cinematheques, museums and even a few multiplexes for Mark Cousins’ follow-up to his 15-hour, 2011
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I’ve written about my book club for Book Riot before. It’s been one of my favorite things for almost ten years. How our book clubs works, generally, is that each member takes a turn choosing a book. Everyone reads it, and then we meet once a month to discuss that pick. When you choose the
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