Steven Spielberg probably doesn’t know this, but he served as an unlikely source of inspiration when it came to editing “Pillion,” the kinky and sexually graphic British sub-dom rom-com getting a limited release with A24 in the U.S. on Feb. 6 (before it expands wide on Feb.
LAHORE, Feb 6 - Extravagantly coloured kites dueled above Lahore and cries of victory rang out from rooftops on Friday, as the city celebrated the lifting of an 18-year ban on a spectacular three-day traditional Punjabi kite-flying festival.
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Motion Picture Exchange (MPX) is launching worldwide sales at Berlin’s upcoming European Film Market on slasher film “Big Baby,” which is directed by Spider One and executive produced by Cher. Spider One — who besides being a director is the founder and frontman of the rock
Have you listened to Chat Pile’s Cool World lately? I have, and I can’t help but notice it feels more relevant than ever. I wish that wasn’t the case. But anyway. They followed that 2024 with the Hayden Pedigo collab LP In The Earth Again last year, and now the Oklahoma City
Orchestras and festival organizers continually develop and experiment with new concert formats for classical music. But do these formats actually have an impact on audiences? A research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main
Last year, John Dwyer was busy unleashing the latest OSEES album Abomination Revealed At Last, as well as launching the new band Chime Oblivion with Bow Wow Wow’s David Barbarossa. But now he’s announcing ZUZAX, his first Damaged Bug album since 2020’s Bug On Yonkers. “40 or so
The free games program isn't free for Epic, but that's not stopping the maker of Fortnite from doubling down on its store.
A new study shows that, despite fires, floods and record heat, most Australians do not change their behavior or beliefs in response to climate change—except in a narrow window following a disaster. Lead author Dr. Omid Ghasemi from the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response
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Tame Impala’s bush doof-influenced album Deadbeat wasn’t exactly a critical favorite, but Kevin Parker is beyond the point where that even matters. He’s got normal people on board. He doesn’t need us. The Deadbeat track “Dracula” broke containment, showed up on a million
The Eighties rock band is on a worldwide talent search for another vocalist, but the answer (and the payday) are staring them right in the face
Stellantis shares plummeted 25% Friday after the company revealed a $26.5 billion charge related to an overhaul of its business – including a retreat on electric vehicle ambitions.
Showrunner Craig Mazin has reached out to the studio to discuss the series
The Trump administration has framed the initiative as a challenge to the pharmaceutical industry's pricing power.
The World Anti-Doping Agency will look into allegations that ski jumpers are injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises to gain aerodynamic advantage at the Winter Olympics 2026.
Rotten Tomatoes’ parent company Versant is denying any tampering is going on with the “Melania” audience scores on the review aggregator website. The Amazon MGM-backed documentary has a 99% audience score compared to a disastrous 7% critics score as of the Friday morning
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Rogue Squadron writer Matthew Robinson hints at the Star Wars movie’s uncertain future amid Lucasfilm’s leadership shakeup.
President Trump shared a video late Thursday that includes a brief clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes. The video was immediately criticized by Democrats as racist, while the White House said it was from a meme related to "The
Last year, Jim O'Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi released five albums — one called Pareidolia and then four live albums . Despite all those live recordings, they don't perform very often, let alone tour. Their Oct. 11 appearance at Unsound Festival’s Kraków edition was a rare gig
Body size pushes these river monsters to become apex predators The post The Monstrous Appetite of Japanese Giant Salamanders appeared first on Nautilus .
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait have reached heights unseen since the end of the Cold War.
The Recording Academy Honors Presented by the Black Music Collective has established itself as one of Grammy Week’s most prominent fixtures, and the 2026 edition, held last Thursday at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, was no exception. “Honoring Brandy, Kirk and
Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision breeding and genome editing offer ways to reprogram plant clocks, optimize flowering
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel will speak with reporters Friday morning. The Justice Department officials, along with U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, are expected to give a joint announcement. The press conference was scheduled
Indie OG Ted Leo hasn’t released an album since 2017’s The Hanged Man, but he continues to work all the time, sometimes posting new songs on Patreon or on Bandcamp. Leo wants to get back together with his backing band the Pharmacists in the studio, and he’s trying to raise the
California doesn't have a water scarcity problem. It has a distribution problem, according to Nícola Ulibarrí, whose new research is reshaping how policymakers think about one of the state's most pressing challenges.
A new book by a Cambridge engineer and an Oxford theologian argues that our faith in technology to solve the climate crisis is distracting us from the uncomfortable truth: that saving the planet is neither a task for future technologies nor for world leaders alone. It is
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