In Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, a nuclear missile streaks toward Chicago. The president has minutes to decide whether to respond by launching America’s own nuclear weapons. It’s gripping cinema—and terrible…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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Matthew Macfadyen leads not-to-be missed ‘Death by Lightning’ (review)
The most fun you’ll have on TV this fall is with the likes of James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Seriously.
Are those old-timey names ringing a little bit of a bell? Maybe a sense memory from seventh-grade U.S. history class, where you learned…
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‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film | Blues
Founded in 1848, Clarksdale, Mississippi, soon earned the title “the Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt”, a place where enslaved Africans and their descendants picked cotton by the tonne. But mechanisation in the 1960s changed things. Today,…
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Kardashian Channel Launches on Samsung TV Plus in UK & Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Pop culture fans will be able to keep up with the Kardashians 24-7 after NBCUniversal and Samsung TV Plus joined forces for a new FAST channel.
The new channel is called Keeping Up With… and goes live on the Samsung…
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‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year | Technology
“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.
Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word…
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ITV Reports Q3 2025 Results, Soft Advertising, Cost Cuts
U.K. TV giant ITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, is planning 35 million ($46 million) in “temporary,” or “one-off,” cost savings amid “softer” advertising demand in the fourth quarter. The news came Thursday as the company reported…
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Angelina Jolie Backed Me On ‘Anxious People’ Set
Aimee Lou Wood has revealed how she has continued to find her voice after she called out the “mean and unfunny” Saturday Night Live impression.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, The White Lotus and Sex Education star detailed an…
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Going to the Dogs review – lovable canines at the heart of a sport in decline | Film
At one point in this documentary about greyhound racing, an interviewee describes it as a fundamentally working-class sport, and it’s hard to argue with that. And like so many British working-class pleasures and pursuits, shifting tastes and…
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Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen review – a hypnotic tale of the sea cow’s extinction | Fiction
In November 1741 Georg Wilhelm Steller, “theologian, naturalist, and curious man”, was shipwrecked on an island between Alaska and Russia. There he found, floating in the shallow waters, a vast sirenian, Hydrodamalis gigas, nine feet long and…
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Music PhD student presents her thesis on the power of the witch’s voice in film for colloquium lecture series
Music PhD candidate Lisa Mumme presented her thesis as a part of the Film and Media Studies (FMS) Department’s Colloquium Lecture Series, arguing that the power of the witch in film is conveyed through the witch’s…
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