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Kesha is speaking out to those who struggle with mental illness through the holiday season. In an emotional essay, published by Time magazine, the 30-year-old singer opened up about her own suffering and difficulty coping at this busy time of year. Related: Kesha Urges Fans ‘Never To Let A Motherf**ker Take Away Their Happiness’ In Powerful […]...

Katy Perry took a moment during her Witness: The Tour show on Friday to speak from her heart about Sunday’s Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

“My wish is for some freakin’ peace! Don’t ya think?” the singer, 32, told the audience inside New York City’s Madison Square Garden before belting out her 2012 hit “Part of Me.”

“This is one of my favorite songs to sing – I want to dedicate it to you guys. You chose to come out and overcome this dumb fear,” Perry said. “You chose to come into the community...

"Prayer without action is powerless." – @katyperry, @LionelRichie, and @LukeBryanOnline share their thoughts on the Las Vegas shooting pic.twitter.com/sNLNvPz2EF

— Good Morning America (@Gma) October 4, 2017

The new judges of American Idol gathered together for the first time on Wednesday, and shared their devastation and hope for change in the wake of the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas that killed 59 and left over 500 injured over the weekend.

“We just don’t know when it’s going to happen again and we’re all trying to figure out the answers,” said Katy Perry, 32, during the...

Louisa Mellor Sep 17, 2017

Three cheers for grown-up sci-fi anthology series Electric Dreams, which promises to be a real treasure trove. Spoilers...

This review contains spoilers.

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1.1 The Hood Maker

A hunched robot in a Pac a Mac creeps behind a pillar. A quintet of babies with floating umbilical cords dance a ring of roses in mid-air. A neon sign advertises the services of a four-breasted woman. Welcome, say the opening credits, to the world of electric dreamer Philip K. Dick.

Or more properly, a world inspired by Philip K. Dick. Episode one of this ten-part anthology series has taken liberties with Dick’s 1955 short story The Hood Maker, and quite rightly. That was written under the shadow of McCarthyism, when loyalty and betrayal were matters of state. This was written under the shadow of the Snooper’s Charter and corporate data mining. In the fifties,...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of Catalog from the Beyond! I thank those of you who have followed along with my inane babbling for the last twelve months, and to celebrate, I’ve decided to do an extra large edition featuring not one, but two movies that I’ve been circling since I started this column. I’ve said before that I was a latecomer to the Psycho franchise, with my rationale being that the movie was so ingrained in pop culture that I assumed I knew what it had to offer without needing to actually watch it. Now, of course, I know that I was very wrong. But after finally coming to my senses, I subsequently noticed a sizable portion of the horror community that also sings the praises of the two sequels that it spawned in 1983 and 1986.

What intrigued me about these two movies is that although...

Reinforcing way too many stereotypes of directionless potheads, the cannabis laced Disjointed is a mess that doesn't even have the benefit of giving you the munchies. With the first 10-episodes of the series launching on Netflix on August 25, what the Chuck Lorre co-created and Kathy Bates-led show does do is make you wonder what was going through the heads of such talented people? Or, as I say in my video review above, what were they smoking? Take away the profanity and…...

Take away the hustle and bustle of the city, add green smoothies, massages and nail art and you pretty much have the recipe to happiness. Near the corner of Essex and Stanton in NYC, this happiness (or rather chill) awaits, thanks to Cyndi Ramirez. It's called Chillhouse, and you can go there for a manicure, massage or even...a beer. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, that's how it started, as an idea. "My husband and I were looking for a place to get massages one day, when it dawned on us that there wasn't a spa environment that appealed to us," the owner told E! News. "Our options were either seedy and cheap or luxury and expensive. We realized right then and there there was a...

The Massachusetts teen convicted of involuntary manslaughter after urging her 18-year-old boyfriend to kill himself “should be kept away from society,” says the victim’s aunt, reports the Boston Herald.

Michelle Carter will be sentenced Thursday and faces a possible 20 years in prison for her role in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III. Carter was 17 when she encouraged Roy to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning through a series of texts and phone calls in the final hours of his life.

Carter’s father has requested probation and “continued counseling” for his daughter, now 20, according to a letter he sent...

Louisa Mellor Jul 9, 2017

The Handmaid’s Tale devotes an episode to life outside Gilead, with mixed results…

This review contains spoilers.

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1.7 The Other Side

How Hamlet spent his days at university in Wittenberg. What Mr Bingley and Jane did on their honeymoon. How St John Rivers got on as a missionary in India. What befell Rosie Cotton while Samwise Gamgee was on his way to Mordor and back.

Stories that don’t need to be told, one and all. Here’s another to add to the list: what Luke was up to while June was going through hell in The Handmaid’s Tale.

By all means, tell us Luke’s alive. End another destabilising, laser-sharp hour on gender politics with a shot of him...

In the last five years, Netflix Chef Content Officer Ted Sarandos has blown up old television and movie models. And judging from the audience that packed Fox’s Zanuck Theatre on the first day of this year’s Produced By Conference, the industry is coming around to his way of thinking.

With his new star, Jerry Seinfeld, as a brilliant interrogator (he moved his series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” from Sony’s Crackle to Netflix for its 10th season), the executive was applauded several times as Seinfeld asked pointed questions.

A one-time “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” Sunday-night binge-watcher and Superstar Video staffer in Phoenix, Arizona, Sarandos is now the biggest content creator in Hollywood as Netflix now boasts 100 million subscribers worldwide. And he easily won over the room.

Here’s how he did it.

1. Match little movies to their audience

On Netflix, which is available in 190 countries, the audience...

In the last five years, Netflix Chef Content Officer Ted Sarandos has blown up old television and movie models. And judging from the audience that packed Fox’s Zanuck Theatre on the first day of this year’s Produced By Conference, the industry is coming around to his way of thinking.

With his new star, Jerry Seinfeld, as a brilliant interrogator (he moved his series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” from Sony’s Crackle to Netflix for its 10th season), the executive was applauded several times as Seinfeld asked pointed questions.

A one-time “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” Sunday-night binge-watcher and Superstar Video staffer in Phoenix, Arizona, Sarandos is now the biggest content creator in Hollywood as Netflix now boasts 100 million subscribers worldwide. And he easily won over the room.

Here’s how he did it.

1. Match little movies to their audience

On Netflix, which is available in 190 countries, the audience...

"Take away food, take away water, and people start doing bad things." This June, Spike TV will show us that there's still something in the mist with their new TV series based on Stephen King's seminal 1980 novella. At the MTV Movie & TV Awards, a new teaser trailer for The Mist was unveiled, offering a new look into the madness and violent mayhem of the series.

The Mist premieres on Thursday, June 22nd at 10:00pm Et on Spike. Check out the new trailer below, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details, and in case you missed it, check out the previous trailer and highlights from the interview Lilja's Library conducted with Christian Torpe, the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of The Mist TV series.

"When the residents of Bridgeville, Maine find themselves engulfed by a foreboding mist containing a myriad of inexplicable and bizarre threats, their humanity...

Once upon a time, Life would have been made for a sack of pennies on a set made out of cardboard and released as the bottom half of a double bill alongside whatever Roger Corman was making that year. Take away the modern window dressing and you’re left with one the great B-movie templates: there […]

The post ‘Life’ Review: An Old Fashioned B-Movie Dressed Up Like a Blockbuster appeared first on /Film.

Nearly three years after releasing the original Slumber Party Massacre as a special edition Blu-ray, Scream Factory has finally put a double feature disc of its two sequels: 1987’s Slumber Party Massacre II and 1990’s Slumber Party Massacre III. It’s something of a good news/bad news situation.

The good news is that Slumber Party Massacre II is really crazy and really fun. The bad news is that part 3 is not. Picking up the subversive campiness of where Amy Holden Jones’ original left off, Slumber Party Massacre II writer/director Deborah Brock dials up the weirdness and adds an abstract, hallucinatory bent to the first sequel. It’s bigger and stranger, more colorful and experimental; I’m reminded of the leap from Prom Night to Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, except that the original Slumber Party Massacre is a better movie than Prom Night.

Crystal Bernard (TV’s Wings) plays Courtney,...

Deadpool is virtually indestructible and cannot be killed... or can he? Deadpool is one of my favorite Marvel characters because of his charming sense of humor. As you know, he has been blessed or cursed with a healing power that keeps him alive and kicking ass, so how does one defeat Deadpool if one finds oneself going up against him? Well, Looper lists six ways that could defeat him. The explain:

Filmgoers have finally discovered something Deadpool's longtime comics fans have known for a while: the Merc with a Mouth is nearly impossible to kill. He soaks up bullets, survives buildings burning down, and even regrows a hand in the weirdest way possible. It's easy to leave the theater wondering exactly how anyone could ever defeat someone with such an amazing healing factor. Fortunately, years of Deadpool comics have offered an array of techniques for accomplishing just such a goal.

There’s no getting around the latest Netflix original’s monumentally dumb premise. A British teenager has an accident that causes shards of his smartphone to become lodged in his brain. This grants him iPhone superpowers, leading him to battle crime as the heroic vigilante iBoy.

Okay, okay, stop giggling. Yes, it’s stupid. Yes, it doesn’t make sense. And yes, ‘iBoy’ is a godawful superhero name. But consider how ridiculous it is for a teenage boy to be bitten by a radioactive spider and getting spider superpowers, or four pet turtles being splashed by mutagenic goo and becoming ninjas, or a scientist being irradiated and turning into a big angry green man or… Well you get the picture. My point is that superhero origin stories are usually pretty silly and you shouldn’t be so quick to judge iBoy, an unexpectedly compelling and contemporary take on the classical superhero template.

Main Street was inundated during Saturday’s March On Main as approximately 4,000 people according to police estimates took over Park City.

Marchers resisted the snow and low temperatures to bear placards in support of women’s rights, the environment and healthcare as a strong anti-Donald Trump sentiment rippled through the crowd. At time of writing there had been no arrests.

The march was one of 350 sister events across the Us and 20 countries in conjunction with the huge Women’s March On Washington on the first day of the 45th Us president’s term of office.

“Hello all you pussies!” actress Mara Bello told the assembled Park City crowd. “When they punch you in the pussy, punch them back with your pussy power.”

Bello’s comments drew prolonged cheers and were in reference to Trump’s notorious 2005 remarks about groping women that came to light late last year.

#MarchOnMain organising committee member Chelsea Handler led the march...

Main Street was inundated during Saturday’s March On Main as approximately 4,000 people according to police estimates took over Park City.

Marchers bore placards in support of women’s rights, the environment and healthcare as a strong anti-Donald Trump sentiment rippled through the crowd. At time of writing there had been no arrests.

The march was one of 350 sister events across the Us and 20 countries in conjunction with the huge Women’s March On Washington on the first day of the 45th Us president’s term of office.

“Hello all you pussies!” actress Mara Bello told the assembled Park City crowd. “When they punch you in the pussy, punch them back with your pussy power.”

Bello’s comments drew prolonged cheers and were in reference to Trump’s notorious 2005 remarks about groping women that came to light late last year.

#MarchOnMain organising committee member Chelsea Handler led the march and was joined by Salt Lake City...

By showing signs of intelligent life in a universe of diseased, digital drivel, Assassin's Creed stands above the herd of movies based on video games by default. Given the low-bar status of the genre, that's not saying much – remember Warcraft, when the gifted filmmaker Duncan Jones tried and disastrously failed to instill soul into a lifeless, role-playing franchise? That should have been a lesson to director Justin Kurzel and his producer/lead actor Michael Fassbender ... and yet these defiant rebels think they can change things. They eventually hit a brick wall,...

Ensemble festive comedy Office Christmas Party stars Jason Bateman, Kate McKinnon, Jennifer Aniston and 40 minutes of good material...

You sit through a lot of middling comedies in this racket, and I find it more interesting to read the audience than the film a lot of the time. Earlier this year The Boss was a good example of when a failure to establish character and grab a couple of big laughs early on leads to a quick death, and you could hear how no one felt up for laughing at some great stuff that came later, because they knew the rest of the room was staying quiet. Office Christmas Party is far better than that, but there came a point, about 40 minutes in, when the room decided: nah, no sale.

And yet all the ingredients are there: it’s an original property with built-in sequel potential, a cast full of all...

Live sports and “Empire” — that’s what Fox does. Or at least, that’s what has made the broadcast network a surprising No. 1 for the still-young fall TV season. Take away those NFL overruns and a classic 2016 World Series, however, and it’s a very different story. Remove news programming, as well, and you’ve got completely different rankings for entertainment series-only. And in case you were wondering, that’s a legitimate way to measure these things. Through seven weeks, NBC is actually tops in entertainment programming, averaging a 2.0 rating among adults 18-49 — the key demographic for advertisers. That number includes.

Hillary Clinton is officially the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. The former Secretary of State accepted her party's nomination in an address at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday evening. After being introduced by daughter Chelsea, Clinton, 68, held back tears and couldn't stop grinning as she took the stage to overwhelming applause. "We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against. But we are not afraid. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have," she said, during a speech that was regularly interrupted with chants of "Hillary!" She continued: "Don't let...

Three Spanish titles will compete for this year’s Golden Shell.Scroll down for full line-up

This 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the line-up of Spanish titles that will play across its sections.

There will be a total of 15 Spanish-produced films on show, including four shorts.

Competing for the Golden Shell – the festival’s top prize – will be Alberto Rodríguez’s El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors), Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) and Jonás Trueba’s La Reconquista (The Reconquest), all of which are world premieres.

Goya Award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez is nominated for his third Golden Shell following 2014’s Marshland and 2005’s 7 Virgins. El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors) [pictured top] tells the story of spy Fransisco Paesa.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents his third feature Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) – following 2013’s Goya-nominated Stockholm – which tells the story of a detective...

Three Spanish titles will compete for this year’s Golden Shell.Scroll down for full line-up

This 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the line-up of Spanish titles that will play across its sections.

There will be a total of 15 Spanish-produced films on show, including four shorts.

Competing for the Golden Shell – the festival’s top prize – will be Alberto Rodríguez’s El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors), Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) and Jonás Trueba’s La Reconquista (The Reconquest), all of which are world premieres.

Goya Award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez is nominated for his third Golden Shell following 2014’s Marshland and 2005’s 7 Virgins. El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors) [pictured top] tells the story of spy Fransisco Paesa.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents his third feature Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) – following 2013’s Goya-nominated Stockholm – which tells the story of a detective...

Alex Carter Jul 12, 2016

The film where Jean-Luc Picard met James T Kirk: we take a look back at Star Trek: Generations...

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Generations

Entropy. That is the ultimate theme in Star Trek: Generations. As signified by the long tracking shots of a bottle of champagne, culminating with it smashing upon the bow of the new Enterprise. The mechanism by which all change happens. How order turns to chaos, and why all good things must come to an end.

It’s also the only word that can possibly integrate the two disparate halves of the film. The treatise on the afterlife and impermanence, versus Data discovering the meaning of laughter. But really, that’s clutching at straws (and that’s coming from the guy who defended Star Trek V). For all the good ideas and fascinating moments, Generations is the curate’s egg...

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Episode one of handsome new BBC supernatural period drama The Living And The Dead feat. Colin Morgan ends on a gripping hook…

This review contains episode 1 spoilers.

Ashley Pharoah, the creator of The Living And The Dead, made his name writing genre TV with a twist. He and Matthew Graham added a time travel mystery to the police procedural in Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes, then spliced the supernatural with court drama in Eternal Law.

Pharoah’s new series The Living And The Dead plays the same game. It’s a traditional Victorian ghost story with Something Else Going On. Two events in the first episode alert viewers to this fact – the vapour trail of a modern airplane in the 1894 Somerset sky and the closing sight of a twenty-first century woman, iPad in hand, walking around the nineteenth-century farmhouse in which the story is set.

President Obama said Thursday that the Supreme Court's decision to block his plan to defer the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants was "frustrating" and indicative of the court's inability "to function the way it is supposed to." Obama spoke out about the court's 4-4 deadlock - which effectively blocked his executive action on immigration - at a press conference on Thursday, saying, "Our founders conceived this country as refuge for the world. Welcoming wave after wave of immigrants kept us youthful and dynamic and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character and it has made us stronger." "But for more...

President Obama said Thursday that the Supreme Court's decision to block his plan to defer the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants was "frustrating" and indicative of the court's inability "to function the way it is supposed to." Obama spoke out about the court's 4-4 deadlock - which effectively blocked his executive action on immigration - at a press conference on Thursday, saying, "Our founders conceived this country as refuge for the world. Welcoming wave after wave of immigrants kept us youthful and dynamic and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character and it has made us stronger." "But for more...

Normally when new consoles are announced it is an exciting time in the generation, but when the new consoles are not really a leap in value that excitement quickly vanishes. Do console owners really need a half step up mid-generation? I don’t think so.

Generally speaking, when a console generation comes to an end things get rather exciting. The current consoles have been milked of all their glory and people start dreaming up what new consoles can do. Console gamers are unique, we buy a unit and we expect it to last 8-10 years, we expect to have the best experience with the unit we bought. If we wanted (or if we could afford) PC gaming, we would switch, but we don’t. We watch as a console grows and the hardware is pushed to the absolute limits by the end of its lifecycle.

Yet the major game companies figured they could destroy that formula and nobody would notice. “But nobody gets left behind,” right? No, and for this reason, I’m not thrilled about the announcement of Microsoft’s Project Scorpio or Sony’s PlayStation Neo.

For those that may have missed the announcement, Microsoft took time at the end of their press conference to squeeze in a sizzle reel that announced a new Xbox One. Or a new console, I’m not sure entirely what their plan is with it. Nobody is at this point. The new unit is called Scorpio and it will boast 8 Teraflops of power, support 4K 60Fps gaming, and have additional heavy hitter tech. To put that in perspective even current high end PC’s have a hard time maintaining that visual output, so the thing is a beast to say the least. (But with that type of tech in a box, it’s no wonder a price point was left out.) The new unit is expected to launch in 2017, but the twist to the story is that it’s basically an Xbox One. The unit will play the same games and have the same support as an Xbox One, but with added performance.

People will be left behind.

I don’t know why both companies keep pretending we are all stupid and saying “nobody will be left behind.” The dumb slogan is working because people that fell for it are repeating the phrase all over the place, but I’m sorry to break the news….people Will be left behind.

Why the hell would a console maker put money and time into a new unit, and increase the price, with absolutely no benefit behind it? They won’t. Yes games will release across both platforms, but there will be a noticeable different experience between the two. The further we move along, the further that gap will spread. Eventually the bigger and better version will become the focus and the old units will be tossed.

Yes you will get Game A on both sides, but people with the new console are going to have a way better experience than those on old units. Visual differences, performance differences. Look at the 3Ds. People couldn’t even review Hyrule Warriors properly on “old 3Ds” units because it was such an inferior version of the game in every way.

Microsoft Outright Lied

Look I don’t support either new units from Sony or Microsoft. I don’t blame Microsoft for doing it because Sony already ran away with the idea laughing. They had no choice. Yet even with all this pressure resting on their shoulders when asked straight up by multiple sources if they would follow, Microsoft said no. They denied it, they said it was a dumb move, they said they wouldn’t alienate fans.

In fact a direct quote from Phil Spencer himself: “"I’m not a big fan of Xbox One and a half. If we’re going to move forward, I want to move forward in big numbers."(GameSpot)

That’s why when Microsoft announced Xbox One S I was thrilled. It looked like they stuck to their word and were instead going the slim route. It was an enticing console, it was exciting…. Then they kill that positivity by announcing Scorpio. Did Microsoft not learn at all about flip flopping all over the place? This backtracking method is what got them into trouble with Xbox One to begin with. At this point when Microsoft says anything, expect them to go in a totally different direction.

So What Purpose Is Xbox One S

Did I mention Xbox One S? Why did Microsoft announce two different units during the same E3 conference? Xbox One S took a good amount of time from the conference and seemed to be a big highlight, which is great. Then they go announce a new unit which is a beefy Xbox One, or a new unit, I’m not sure. But why? Which one as a consumer am I expected to get excited about? They had me hooked as an Xbox One owner to upgrade to the S, and now I think I have to save my money for Scorpio.

Vr Was Planned

A big purpose behind these slight upgrade units seems to be blame on Vr. Yet why wasn’t this planned for when the units released to begin with? Vr has been in development for years now, or at least that is what the marketing has been telling me. Now it’s finally hitting and we suddenly need new units in order to experience things correctly…..

That being said, Microsoft has always gone the Ar route when talking about Vr. They have the Hololens in development and their past E3 spent a majority of the time on that tech. Now we skip to this E3 and the focus is now Vr?

Where Are The Games

My biggest complaint about all of this is the outright lack of content we have explored so far this generation. Take away Fps titles and you are not left with very many titles to choose from. Yes there have been some gems to talk about here and there, but nothing that truly made me say “this is why I bought this console.” So why would I go buy it again?

Microsoft Has PC

The thing about this unit is that Microsoft full on jumped in the PC wagon. All their upcoming games are being bridged to PC, and they are all cross platform play with Xbox Live. So we don’t really need a new console. If people want the better experience they can buy a PC and get the better experience at this point. They opened up that network and it was a really smart move on their behalf.

For what the Scorpio is going to offer I’m interested to see where the price point falls. The power they noted costs PC gamers $400 just for a card to barely support the same output. The current Xbox One is $350. If this unit is around $800 dollars, why not just get the PC? Perhaps this is Microsoft’s plan all along, to push people to PC. They profit from either side, so maybe it was a smart business move.

Overall, I’m not excited for Scorpio. I’m not excited for PS4 Neo. As a console owner this is not what we want. We don’t want console lifespans of maybe 4 years. I’m a person that finds it annoying when a perfectly good phone is “outdated” because a slightly better phone releases a year lately. I also find it extremely annoying when they say “nobody will be left out” because we will be. If we are not being left out then there is no purpose to the new units, so why bother having them?

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The unspeakable occurs on the Season 4 premiere of Mistresses, when a four-month-old bundle of sunshine, gurgles and endless cheeks pulls focus from chiseled torsos, murder trials and erotic memoir readings.

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But while Baby Vivian is the clear front-runner in the Emmy race for Most Adorable TV Baby, it’s high time her mother, Dr. Karen Kim (who recently completed her post-doc in thrupling… congrats, girl!), started looking into boarding schools.

Too harsh? Perhaps. But not nearly as unseemly as an hour of Mistresses in which all of the sex not only occurs off screen,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Deadpool (Tim Miller)

As Hollywood struggles to reinvent their array of superheroes with each iteration, it’s no surprise that audiences would become hungry for something off the beaten path. While it’s not the first post-modern comic-book adaptation, Deadpool is billed as ushering in a new direction: a fan-spurred, self-aware tentpole that’s R-rated to its core, featuring a wise-ass character (don’t call him...

Written by Joey Falco | Art by Roy Allan Martinez | Published by Titan Comics | Format: Paperback, 32pp

The first issue of this new Heroes Reborn mini-series was decent, without being much more. It is hard to be too critical of these Heroes mini-series, as I believe their heart is genuinely in the right place, but they do consistently underwhelm the reader, tantalising us with just enough to keep us reading but then fail to deliver. The first issue of Heroes: Godsend had all those same flaws, so I was hoping this issue would pick up the slack and prove me wrong.

Godsend is Farah Nazan, an American Muslim who has the ability to turn invisible, and who has been trained in the art of unarmed combat. She, in the anti-Muslim hatred following 9/11, used her abilities to help her local communities, to fight back against racist violence, but kept firmly out of sight.

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WrestleMania 33 is officially set for April 2 2017 in Orlando, Florida.

The news had been expected for some time, with Orlando aggressively campaigning for the event and WWE impressed by the improvements made to the 74,000 capacity Citrus Bowl.

Numerous big cities had bid for the event, due to the economic impact WrestleMania has on the local area. In the end, only Minneapolis came close. Orlando was by far the safer bet, thanks to its well-established transport hubs and vast accommodation options. Indeed, ‘Mania was there in 2008 so WWE know full well what they are getting with the location.

For the fans, it should be a lot of fun. The Sunshine State is famed for its tourist attractions and theme parks, meaning the ‘Mania 33 experience is going to feel more like a vacation. Another exciting factor is that coinciding with the event will reportedly be the launch of the new WWE...

Being the President of the United States is one of the most stressful and isolating jobs in the world, but President Barack Obama claims it has greatly improved his personal life. In an interview with the Today show's Matt Lauer, Obama explains how seven years in the White House have made him a better father. "My ability to function as a present father, a guy who is there and engaged, was maybe stronger once I got to the White House than before, because when I was a senator, when I was commuting, the girls were still back in Chicago. When I was campaigning for president,...

Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! #1

Written by Kate Leth

Art by Brittney Williams

Colors by Megan Wilson

Letters by Joe Sabino and Clayton Cowles

Published by Marvel Comics

After an intriguing flash forward opening page Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! #1 gets right down to superhero business with its titular heroine stopping a D-list supervillain, who can move objects with his mind. And quotes Wicked. And after this hilarious and epic twist where Patsy chats with the would-be armed truck thief (and Inhuman) Telekinian, befriends him, helps him use his powers for good by floating a nice girl’s Broadway tickets up from a gutter where her horrible boyfriend put them, and also gives him pointers on picking a code name. (Telekinesis + Ian equals close, but no cigar.) This is only the appetizer in writer Kate Leth, artist Brittney Williams, and colorist Megan Wilson’s buffet of fun, relatable characters,...

An 11% Top Ten drop from the same weekend last year can be blamed mainly on the shortfall of this week's sole new release, Ron Howard's whaling saga "In the Heart of the Sea." Its $11 million gross is about half of what "Exodus - Gods and Kings" opened to in 2015. Take away those two films and grosses actually inched slightly higher than last year. The weekend was ho-hum, as several films jockeyed to stay on screen for the lucrative holiday weeks ahead. Next week any movie that is not "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will battle for screen space. The Top Ten pre-Christmas weekend last year totaled about $124 million. Next weekend by most estimates should easily top $200 million, possible with "Star Wars" approaching (or even exceeding) that figure by itself. Many all-time top grossers —"Titanic," "Avatar," both the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" series —have opened around the same date and had less.

Weird silhouetted people popping out of one singer’s backdrop like unwelcome whack-a-moles. Judges spending more time discussing another contestant’s pre-performance “confidence issues” than her actual vocal. A third artist being forced to perform in the midst of a baffling outdoor café set — complete with hedges and a monstrous video of a fountain — then being damned with faint praise for delivering “the most different thing I’ve heard on the show.”

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Welcome to The Voice Season 9 semifinals — and the seeds of my runaway conspiracy theories blooming like the “Gurl,...

‘Tis clearly the season for holiday movies. No sooner did we digest last week’s Christmas flick Love The Coopers along comes another yuletide offering called The Night Before. But if you think this one is going to be full of cheer and good tidings like most movies of this ilk, think again. We are talking here about a Christmas movie starring Seth Rogen! Take away the trappings of this genre and you really have a film much closer in spirit to Pineapple Express, This Is The…...

"Wtf (Where They From)" was worth the wait. Three years after the release of her last single and seven years after the release of her last music video, Missy Elliott returned to the music scene Thursday with "Wtf (Where They From)." She collaborated with Pharrell Williams on the song. Elliott directed the video with her longtime friend Dave Meyers. Their history is a long one, as he either directed or co-directed her biggest videos, including 2001's "Get Ur Freak On," 2001's "One Minute Man," 2001's "Take Away/4 My People," 2002's "Work It," 2003's "Gossip Folks," 2003's "Pass That Dutch," 2005's "Lose Control,"...

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50 fabulous documentary films, covering hard politics through to music, money and films that never were...

Thanks to streaming services such as Netflix, we’ve never had better access to documentaries. A whole new audience can discover that these real life stories are just as thrilling, entertaining, and incredible as the latest big-budget blockbuster. What’s more, they’re all true too. But with a new found glut of them comes the ever more impossible choice, what’s worth your time? Below is my pick of the 50 best modern feature length documentaries.

I’ve defined modern as being from 2000 onwards, which means some of the greatest documentaries ever made will not feature here. I’m looking at you Hoop Dreams.

50. McConkey (2013)

d. Rob Bruce, Scott Gaffney, Murray Wais, Steve Winter, David Zieff

Shane McConkey was an extreme skier and Base jumper who lived life on the edge, and very much to the full.

Patchwork

Written by Tyler MacIntyre & Chris Lee Hill

Directed by Tyler MacIntyre

Canada/USA, 2015

Director Tyler MacIntyre’s film, Patchwork, is horror/comedy that puts a modern spin on the mythology established in Mary Shelley’s classic story, Frankenstein. At its core, Patchwork is an examination of life death in the modern age, mixed with violence, gore, and a cheeky tone sure to delight fans of classic 80’s scream-fests.

In Patchwork, Jennifer (Tory Stolper) is a young professional woman living in Los Angeles, and the embodiment of the fast-paced L.A. lifestyle: she hangs out in bottle service booths inside trendy nightspots, wears pantsuits, and dates a douchey guy that wears a Bluetooth headset while at a club (and he also cheats on his wife). When Jennifer’s frenemies don’t show up to join her birthday jam, she goes home alone, hoping to “Netflix and chill” with her philandering...

Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.

Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow)

As all good sequels must learn, the key to success is delivering on the promise set forth by the original while also providing something fresh and improved. Just ask James Cameron, a master at the task, who injected action-packed life into both Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day without negating or watering down the mythology still relevant beneath those newfound popcorn blockbuster sensibilities. Neither The Lost World nor Jurassic Park III did it. They...

There are two things we see straight away in A Bigger Splash: Tilda Swinton, naked and sunbathing, and her character Marianne then having sex in the pool with her boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts). No words are spoken as we silently follow the pair from their villa to the beach and when the first notable sound is heard, a cellphone, it's an assault on the senses. This opening immediately sets the tone for this sexually-charged and sun-kissed movie, from Italian director Luca Guadagnino, that does not hide from both the raw ugliness and beauty of relationships so interwoven they can quickly shift from great to toxic. Tilda Swinton, who leads this unlikely foursome, is one of the greatest actresses we have working today. Take away her ability to speak – as they have done here in this film – and she only proves that all the more by conveying so very much whilst saying so very little.

Selena Gomez just released one of her hottest videos ever! The singer dropped her new music video for "Same Old Love" on Tuesday. In the sexy clip, the 23-year-old shows off her curves in a plunging black dress, her hair perfectly styled in big curls. The video opens up with Gomez getting into a car, and during her ride she sees several strangers dealing with various forms of happiness and heartache. After witnessing the effects of love, some good and some bad, Selena finally makes it to her concert where she stuns in the sexy black number and performs the catchy single. Check out Selena's "Same Old Love" video above! While we're loving the former Disney star's new song (and sultry video), we can't help but wonder if the track is about her ex, Justin Bieber. With lyrics like, "Take away your things and go/You can't take back what you said,...

Brian Trenchard-Smith's outrageous futuristic gore-fest imagines an Australian extermination camp run by the sadistic Michael Craig and Roger Ward, where jaded rich folk come to hunt human prey. The leading targets for this week's jaunt are Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey. It is snarky? Is it subversive? An alternate title was Blood Camp Thatcher! Turkey Shoot Blu-ray Severin Films 1982 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 80 min. / Escape 2000, Blood Camp Thatcher / Street Date September 22, 2015 / 24.98 Starring Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier, Lynda Stoner, Roger Ward, Michael Petrovitch, Gus Mercurio, John Ley. Cinematography John McLean Film Editor Alan Lake Original Music Brian May Special Effects John Stears Second Unit Director / Executive Producer David Hemmings Written byJon George, Neill Hicks, George Schenck, Robert Williams, David Lawrence Produced by William Fayman, Antony I. Ginnane Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Who cannot appreciate a movie that carries the alternate title Blood Camp Thatcher?...

Take away the gore in Peter Nicholson’s story of young hikers and you’d have an attractive promo for Dartmoor tourism

Peter Nicholson’s low-budget horror-thriller starts better than it ends. As two young hikers (Gemma-Leah Devereux, Rebecca Night) are led off the beaten track by a hunky guide (Callum Blue), the first act’s every set-up benefits from the screen-filling backdrops of the eponymous moors. It’s disappointing, then, that Nicholson should retreat from this spectacular stage to a farmhouse haunted by mysterious deaths; doubly so when the relationships, dialogue and action all stop ringing true. Redact the gore, and it’d make an attractive promo for Dartmoor tourism, but A Night in the Woods (2012) hounded its characters far more persuasively over this particular terrain.

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The forgotten grandfather of the third-person cover shooter? Ryan takes a look back at the brilliant Cabal...

As far as military shooters went in the 1980s, Operation Wolf was the last word. It was loud, brash, and the cabinet had a colossal Uzi 9mm strapped to the front of it. The game was a distillation of the decade's cheerfully excessive action movies: traces of Rambo, Commando and Delta Force could all be found in its DNA.

It could even be argued that none-more-80s movie studio Cannon Films were indirectly responsible for Operation Wolf's visual style and "rescue the hostages" plotline.

The only problem with Operation Wolf is this: it isn't exactly what you'd call strategic. Take away the Uzi, the incredible sound effects and the phalanxes of hapless soldiers, and you're essentially left with Duck Hunt. You can't move around, you can't take cover and you can't avoid bullets...

"You gotta follow the white guys," director Ava DuVernay told a crowd of female bloggers (via The Hollywood Reporter) during her closing keynote address at the 2015 BlogHer Conference, offering up advice for women and minorities looking to make it in their industry. It was an interesting point for the Selma director to make. After all, the conversation has grown louder and louder when it comes to the discussion regarding women and people of color blazing their own trails and charting their own paths to the top in industries that have been primarily dominated by white males. But according to DuVernay there is an advantage to utilizing the roads paved by those already in positions of privilege and power. "They've got this thing wired. Too often, we live within their games, so why would you not study what worksc Take away the bad stuff -- because there's a lot -- and...

Ava DuVernay shared advice on how to get ahead in an industry in which she finds herself to be a minority. "You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired," she advised during her closing keynote at the 2015 BlogHer conference, held at the Hilton in New York City. “Too often, we live within their games, so why would you not study what works? Take away the bad stuff — because there’s a lot — and use the savvy interesting stuff and figure out how they can apply. It’s a good one for the ladies.” The Selma helmer continued to the ballroom of female

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Channing Tatum‘s “Magic Mike: Xxl” danced past Arnold Schwarzenegger and “Terminator: Genisys” in their first day at the box office Wednesday. But the numbers suggest they’ll have trouble lighting it up over the full July 4 weekend. Warner Bros.’ “Magic Mike Xxl” was No. 1 on Wednesday with $9.3 million, ahead of the $8.9 million that second-place “Terminator: Genisys” rolled up for Paramount and Skydance Productions. Those figures included their respective Tuesday night hauls of $2.4 million and $2.3 million, however, and that’s what put them ahead of heavyweight holdovers “Inside Out” and “Jurassic World.” Take away the Tuesday grosses and it’s.