Director Joel Schumacher has sadly passed away. The filmmaker directed tons of classic 80s and 90s movies like the Batman franchise entries, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, St. Elmo’s Fire and DC Cab. The filmmaker was 80-years-old. Schumacher passed away after a year-long battle with cancer. He died in New
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Ever since the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897, people have been fascinated with tales of vampires, undead creatures who drink the blood of the living. Tales fell in and out of vogue throughout literary history, crazes reigniting with the publications of books by Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer. In television, two shows that
Not to sound like an assistant district attorney from SVU, but it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that acclaimed essayist and book critic Ilana Masad has carved a prominent space for herself in the realm of mother-daughter literature with her debut novel, All My Mother’s Lovers. It sits upon a throne of 2020
Yu Miri first started researching the evictions of the homeless community in Tokyo’s Ueno Park back in 2006. Days or even hours before visits by the emperor and the imperial family, eviction notices would be pasted to their tarpaulin huts, instructing them to dismantle the huts, clear away their belongings, and move out. Many of
Photo by Camila Valdés Megan McDowell has translated many contemporary authors from Latin America and Spain, including Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, and Lina Meruane. Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, her translations have been published in the New Yorker, Tin House, the Paris Review, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s, among others. Veronica Esposito: As a translator, you’ve
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft outside Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic Shares of Virgin Galactic shares jumped Monday after it signed an agreement with NASA that will allow the space tourism venture to train astronauts for trips to the International Space Station on flights to the edge of space. The company — which is publicly traded
The UK’s Cinema First has announced that 450 films will be made available for theatrical screenings once movie theaters re-open for business in the coming weeks. The content has been collated by the Film Distributors’ Association with the aim of aiding programmers and cinema operators to choose the widest possible mix of product that will
By the end of the year, the National Reconnaissance Office plans to issue “multiple operational commercial imagery contracts to support defense, security and many other U.S. government missions,” said Pete Muend, director of NRO’s Commercial Systems Program Office. “We’re very excited to begin to leverage all the capabilities that our U.S. domestic commercial industry base
Protests across the U.S. over police violence and systemic racism against Black Americans have sparked gaming companies like Electronic Arts, Epic Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment/PlayStation to publish statements of their support and make donations to relevant advocacy organizations. These are positive actions, but the most impactful thing game companies can do is take action
In this screengrab, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during “Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Effort” airing on April 22, 2020. “Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort” will provide financial, educational and community support directly to Black communities hit hardest by COVID-19. BET2020 | Getty Images for BET NETWORKS As the nation
Global Citizen and the European Commission have announced an upcoming televised concert titled “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future.” The virtual event will take place June 27, and feature performances by Quavo, Christine and the Queens, J Balvin, Usher, Coldplay, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, Shakira, and more. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will host. According to
U.S. government debt prices were lower Monday morning as investors monitored a rise in new coronavirus cases across the U.S., jeopardizing hopes of a quick economic recovery. At around 2:20 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was lower at 0.6921% and the yield on the 30-year bond fell to to 1.4569%. Yields
The Undertaker appears to be finally hanging up the boots, as the legendary WWE Superstar has just announced he has “no desire” to ever compete in a wrestling ring again. The veteran performer, whose real name is Mark Calaway, has been the subject of the new five-part docuseries, Undertaker: The Last Ride on WWE Network.
We’d be wise never to count Charlie Manx out. There was a severe lack of Zachary Quinto’s villain on NOS4A2 Season 2 Episode 1, but the installment excelled by showing us how the characters at the helm of the story are continually tormented by everything he put them through on NOS4A2 Season 1. Vic was putting
The “Fearless Girl” statue stands outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, June 12, 2020. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. stock futures fell on Sunday night following a solid weekly performance on Wall Street amid lingering concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures
In the lab. Courtesy: University of Warwick Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) is routinely employed to identify individual molecules, but it cannot usually resolve their internal structure. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the universities of Warwick and Cardiff in the UK has now shown that a variation of high-resolution STM can in fact deliver information
Texas grocer Central Market turned salad bars and hot bars into packaged food displays during the pandemic. Source: Central Market Grocery stores have shut down self-serve salad bars during the pandemic. They’ve taken away displays of fresh olives and dips. And they’ve replaced giant kettles of ready-to-ladle hot soup with sealed to-go containers. The deli
After making a strong debut in Japan last weekend, Sony’s Little Women this session crossed the $100M mark at the international box office. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic tale now has an offshore cume of $101M and a global haul of $209M to date. The current frame was worth $475K from 12 overseas