How can anthropologists take the paranormal seriously? It’s a question Jack Hunter has explored for years and one he addressed in a virtual Harvard talk on Tuesday. The Welsh author and anthropologist, who studies consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal, discussed his academic work and his own supernatural experiences with Giovanna Parmigiani, a lecturer on
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Amazon Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’ TV series has just casted ‘Yellowjackets’ star Ella Purnell in a lead role. Currently it is not known who she will be playing. ‘Fallout’ takes place after a nuclear war and the television series will feature Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner as showrunners. Robertson-Dworet has writing credits on ‘Captain Marvel’, while
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Mireya AciertoGetty Images Patrick Demarchelier, the photographer whose style helped defined the easy glamour of the 1990s, and whose career came to an end amid #MeToo allegations of sexual assault, died on Thursday at age 78. His family announced the photographer’s death on his Instagram page; the cause was not immediately known. Demarchelier, who was
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The heroine of Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone is a witch, with echoes of vampire and zombie, yes, but mostly with a haunting desire for human connection in 19th century rural Macedonia. The film’s Sundance premiere got great reviews (see Deadline’s here). It’s 94% Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh with critics as Focus Features opens
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Foals have shared a new song, ‘Looking High’, taken from their new album Life Is Yours, which is set to arrive on June 17. Give it a listen below. “This is looking back to a more hedonistic time in my life, and a more innocent time in society in general, pre-pandemic and before the existential
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Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel switched hosting duties on April Fool’s Day, with Kimmel traveling to New York to host ABC’s The Tonight Show and Fallon leading Jimmy Kimmel Live from California. Red Hot Chili Peppers were the musical guests on both shows, playing ‘Black Summer’ live from NBC Studios and delivering a pre-recorded performance
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Will Smith announced this evening that he is resigning from membership in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences days after his slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars dominated ceremony coverage and conversation. Rock had made a distasteful joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith. In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter,
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Receiving an Academy Award was the best way to honor Samuel L. Jackson after years of entertaining audiences. In recent years, the Shaft actor has been busier than ever between film and television projects and those beloved Capital One commercials. But, of course, film is his best medium as clear by his countless appearances as
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Workers at a large Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y. have voted to join a union. Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer of consumer goods, the second largest private employer in the United States, and the “world’s largest bookstore.” The union vote is the company’s first. The workers voted 2,654 in favor of being
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Director: Kyle Balda Co-Directors: Brad Ableson, Jonathan del Val Producers: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy, Chris Renaud Cast: Steve Carell, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, RZA, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lucy Lawless, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, Russell Brand, with Julie Andrews and Alan Arkin This June, from the biggest animated franchise in history and global cultural phenomenon, comes the
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In March 2016, Vladimir Putin and his security people claimed that they had observed 3 Russian Yeti or Almasty while visiting a remote village in Siberia. A bit of cryptid propaganda by the Russian dictator. “Russian president discovers ‘proof’ that fabled creature exists while on short vacation in the Kemerovo region. Environmental rangers and hunters
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Disney+ has unveiled the teaser trailer and key art for the highly anticipated Original limited series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” from Academy Award®-winner Dustin Lance Black starring Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones. The series will be coming soon to Disney+ under the Star banner in Australia. FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven,” inspired by the
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