Month: November 2022

Is it good or bad luck to see a condor? I can’t remember. Let’s say good, because this week the legendary author James Grady – creator of Six Days of the Condor – has a brand new thriller out and it’s set on a train. We’ve also got two new names for you in Kellye
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The nine short stories in George Saunders’ Liberation Day (7 hours) prowl a spectrum of dystopian premises and fall into two categories: tales about families, co-workers and neighbors navigating their relationships amid troubling current events; and stories about future humans who are reprogrammed as automatons (with the robotic voices to match) under other people’s command.
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In hindsight, this was inevitable. Ever since Mad Vlad Putin was snapped pumping iron in a pair of £2,000 Loro Piana joggers, we’ve been moving inexorably to the day when men could wear matchy-matchy sportswear for activities other than rolling snitches into the East River. To Armie Hammer in Adidas Originals, 2 Chainz in full-look
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SATURDAY UPDATE: Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever added seven material offshore markets on Friday, including the UK, Spain and Japan. Through yesterday, the international box office cume is $64.7M. Globally, including domestic’s strong performance out of the gate, the cume through Friday is $148.7M.  We are now eyeing an overseas launch weekend in the $140M
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Reading Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Mathews is like a vacation in an idyllic spot, at the most festive of times… with murder. It’s a police procedural set on an island 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. This is not a location suitable for a remake of Agatha Christie’s And Then There
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You never forget your first sleepover. Especially if you happen to have an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino and writer David Kajganich reteam for a new genre film, Bones and All, an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis‘s novel. This time they take on an achingly tender and thoughtful coming-of-age romance between a pair of cannibals with an insatiable need
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In Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers, Oxford University Shakespeare studies professor Emma Smith offers a lively and engaging survey of the history of the book, focusing on the “material combination of form and content” she calls “bookhood.” It’s a “book about books, rather than words,” that describes with both insight and
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Celebs are putting an edgy flare on the ‘Canadian tuxedo’ and giving new life to denim … clearly a trend to reckon with this fall. These stunning stars are giving you an inside peak at their good looks and their good genes jeans! A-listers like Dua Lipa and Ciara are elevating the denim standards and
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News Hawkwind Co-Founder Nik Turner Dies at 82 His projects Sphynx, Inner City Unit, and Space Ritual helped change the history of psychedelic music By Rob Arcand November 11, 2022 Facebook Twitter Nik Turner, July 1976 (Michael Putland/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Nik Turner, co-founder and multi-instrumentalist for the British space-rock band Hawkwind, has died. A
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The Century Family Records. Alt.Pop artist Little Hurt is heading out on a co-headlining tour with Hembree to support his new single ‘Buttercup’ . The song is a compact, clever nugget of pristine pop-rock perfection that features longtime friend The Ready Set on guest vocals. ‘Buttercup’ offers a frank confession of romantic uncertainty and insecurity — set to a funky backbeat, pulsing
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Universal Pictures is giving Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans a platform release starting with four locations in NYC (Lincoln Square, Union Square) and LA (The Grove, Century City) with a robust media campaign aimed at cinephiles, but also capitalizing on the broad appeal of a Spielberg production, testament to unusual pedigree of the semiautobiographical film. It premiered in
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