Month: January 2023

Before booting up M3GAN for producers James Wan and Jason Blum, Gerard Johnstone made his feature directorial debut on Housebound, an awesome horror comedy that’s brimming with bloody fun. In the film, a young woman is forced to return to her childhood home after being placed under house arrest, where she suspects that something evil may
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News For Tracy Hyde, Japanese Shoegaze Band, Break Up The Tokyo group released five albums in its 10-year run By Rob Arcand January 5, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter For Tracy Hyde have announced that they’re disbanding. The Japanese shoegaze band published a statement on its website earlier today (January 5), citing issues with the
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Nearly a year ago, Zoreen Kabani was consumed by an overwhelming sense of ennui. She felt stagnant, and, quite frankly, bored at the job she’d had for the last nine years. So, the 35-year-old financial advisor switched to another company—and then promptly quit two weeks later. It wasn’t where she worked, she realized, but what
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THURSDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, as expected (see below) has exceeded $1.5B globally with Wednesday’s figures included. The running total through yesterday is $1,516.5M, meaning that it has overtaken Top Gun: Maverick as the No. 1 worldwide release of 2022. What’s more, it is now the No. 10
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John Fullerton’s powerful 1996 debut The Monkey House was set in war-torn Sarajevo and was right in the moment. A handful of engaging spy thrillers followed before the author paused his novels to focus on journalism, although it’s also worth noting that he has freelanced for British intelligence. Now retired from the field, he is
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Bloody Disgusting’s M3GAN review is spoiler-free. From the moment M3GAN was introduced in trailers and danced her way into the internet’s collective hearts, the high-tech killer doll seemed destined for horror icon status. It helped that M3GAN reunited producer James Wan and screenwriter Akela Cooper, both responsible for 2021’s highly entertaining Malignant, and put Housebound’s Gerard Johnstone at the helm. The horror-comedy does live up to
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Jeremy Renner has unfortunately spent his 2023 in the hospital recovering from multiple injuries as a result of a snow plowing accident that occurred during Reno, Nevada’s winter storm. The latest we know about the events the Marvel actor experienced on New Year’s Day comes via the 911 call that was reportedly placed just minutes
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In many religious traditions, paradise names an otherworldly realm overflowing with lush greenery, luscious fruits, honeyed scents and cascading waterfalls. In others, paradise can be attained in this world, even in the midst of the clattering cacophony surrounding us. Bestselling travel writer Pico Iyer shares his own search for paradise in The Half Known Life,
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Welcome to Bachelor Nation, ladies. On Jan. 4, ABC released the official lineup of contestants for Zach Shallcross‘ season of The Bachelor. And, like in seasons past, the list includes several impressive women with a wide variety of careers. For instance, there’s Brooklyn, a rodeo racer from Stillwater, Okla.; Genevie, a neonatal nurse from Baltimore City, Md.; and Charity, a
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In an email sent to victims on Tuesday, the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York said that Filippo Bernardini, the Italian citizen who was arrested last year on suspicion of stealing unpublished books, is expected to plead guilty to wire fraud on Friday. For years, Bernardini used his insider
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UPDATE, with revised figures Big holiday ticket prices, bonus performances and large audiences spurred a hefty surge of nearly 50% in Broadway box office last week (ending Jan. 1) over the previous week, with productions including Funny Girl, MJ, Six, Beetlejuice and & Juliet among the shows smashing house records. With 20 of the 33
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We first met Bobbie and Jemma of the York Ladies’ Detective Agency in Smoke and Cracked Mirrors in April 2022, and now the historical crime fiction whirlwind that is Karen Charlton is treating us to book two in the series. Britain is embroiled in World War II, and in the Roman city of York nefarious
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