It makes sense that a story taking 14 hours of screen time to tell and spanning and spanning several decades from start to finish would require a few characters to help the story along. As battles are fought, locations change, and people die, there begins to be a need to replace characters, and some just work better than others. Star Wars is the granddaddy of selling products inspired by the film....
Since everybody’s having a lot of fun watching Steve Rogers go mano-a-mano with Tony Stark in Captain America: Civil War, Screen Rant has been exploring a lot of the Captain’s history. Here, we explore some little-known details about Steve’s most faithful companion - no, not Bucky or Peggy, but his own most reliable weapon. Did you know it has its own theme song? That it played a surprising role in the 22nd century?...
If you watched MTV in the mid-2000s, you were almost guaranteed to catch an episode of Pimp My Ride. The premise of the show was helping out young people who drove truly awful cars – so bad that those vehicles were definitely not street legal. Xzibit would show up, say some quips, and then take the car back to West Coast Customs so they could modify the car. (At least for the first four seasons – then Galpin Auto Sports took over....
For decades, the Western remained one of the most popular genres in U.S. cinema, partially because it was rooted in U.S. history to a degree that other genres are not. During the Civil Rights movement, citizens began to re-evaluate the history of U.S. expansionism, which began to hurt the Western’s popularity. Westerns produced in the 1960s and 70s often subverted the traditional good versus bad set-ups of their cinematic predecessors, and by the time the 80s rolled around, the genre was nearly extinct....
It happens all the time in the video game industry. Game developers can work on a project for months — sometimes even years — and a single obstacle can come along and shunt everything into obscurity. It’s really that easy, unfortunately. Financial problems, technical issues, time constraints, you name it — games get canceled for a number of different reasons, sometimes even after they’ve been announced to the public. This makes it especially heartbreaking when a promising project doesn’t see the light of day....
While iOS 16 fronts a snazzy redesigned lock screen, underneath, the latest operating system hosts a slew of new security and privacy features built to help protect you and your data. Here are five new features to better secure your iPhone from hackers and give you greater peace of mind. Rapid security response iOS, as well as macOS and iPadOS, now allow for automatic “rapid security responses.” This allows Apple to quickly patch software (i....
New Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Jessica Rosenworcel has today told delegates at the Mobile World Congress that 6G launch planning should begin now, even though switch-on is not expected until 2030. Her remarks follow the embarrassing clash between the FCC and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over the safety of the expanded 5G rollout … Background The FCC auctioned off C-band spectrum for use as 5G cellular service last year, and mobile carriers spent billions of dollars preparing to switch on these frequencies....
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Sponsored by Decluttr: Trade-in your iPhone or other device with a 28 day price lock and get an extra 10%* cash back with code 9TO5MAC(*$30 cap). Stories discussed in this episode: Apple officially announces iPhone 13 event for September 14 Ford poaches Apple Car VP Doug Field in major setback for Project Titan Survey suggests just 6% of iPhone owners in the US use Apple Pay in stores Enjoy the podcast?...
Benjamin and Zac run down all of the new features in the just-released iOS 15.4 betas, including support for Face ID unlock with a face mask on. Apple also surprised everyone this week with an over-the-air new Apple Watch face. There’s also rumors of Apple turning iPhones into credit card payment terminals, and Apple’s head of PR leaves less than a year after joining the company. Sponsored by Things: The award-winning to-do app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac....
A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods will team up again, this time to adapt Stephen King’s early short story The Boogeyman. Directed by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place stunned audiences while scaring up blockbuster numbers for a very grateful Paramount, finishing with $325 million in worldwide grosses. After a performance like that, it’s no surprise that writers Beck and Woods are already conjuring up ideas for a sequel to A Quiet Place....
One of the differences between the base and Pro model iPhone 14 this year is that only the latter get the latest A16 chip. But a new piece today argues that this is a smaller difference than Apple might like to suggest. A comparison of the two chip designs concludes that the differences are far more limited than is normally the case for Apple’s annual iPhone chip upgrade … Background The iPhone 14 is the first time that Apple has used the A-series chip as a differentiating factor between the standard and Pro models....
Serif, makers of the popular Affinity creative suite has shared that it has “something big” coming on November 9. What it’s calling “the next level creative experience” is set to see the Affinity apps redesigned and refined with hundreds of enhancements and “incredible new features” including something Affinity customers have been asking for. Serif’s managing director Ash Hewson teased the Affinity overhaul today in a YouTube video. “Ever experience true creative freedom?...
[This is a review of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, episode 10. There will be SPOILERS.] – In the first part of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, Director Phil Coulson and his team have been spread thin on a variety of different missions, dealing with the rising number of Inhumans and the resurgence of Hydra thanks to former agent Ward. Additionally, the ATCU was formed to officially combat the Inhuman problem and act as a rival organization to S....
WARNING: spoilers for Agents of SHIELD season four, episode 13, “BOOM” - The twin major events of this week’s episode of Agents of SHIELD are actually linked: the death of new recurring villain Senator Ellen Nadeer (Parminder Nagra) and the transformation of other minor pain-in-the-neck Terrence Shockley (John Pyper-Ferguson) from low-level thug to high-powered Inhuman. The two developments are, of course, meant to be saturated with not a little dose of irony, given that both individuals were dedicated to hate-mongering and the outright liquidation of a goodly part of the global population; it is precisely that hatred and that violence that ended both of their lives, albeit one ending is literal and the other more figurative....
As many movie fans know, the first draft of a film’s screenplay typically is not the only version that exists. The filmmakers will go through an assortment of ideas as they attempt to craft the perfect story for the project they’re trying to make. This means that more often than not, lines of dialogue, certain scenes, or even entire sequences will be retooled or cut before the film reaches theaters....
I think it’s fair to say that most people love Netflix, and most people love food, so why not combine the two for the perfect evening?! Netflix is full of amazing movies and documentaries, but they also have quite the eclectic mix of food shows. I know it might sound lame, but trust me, watching other people cook is both mesmerizing and relaxing. Back before Netflix, we were forced to watch Sandra Lee getting tipsy on The Food Network, but now the culinary world is our oyster thanks to Netflix and shows like Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown and The Great British Bake Off....
As soon as any horror film has a modicum of success, fans start clamoring for a sequel. This isn’t a new trend as many of the most famous horror icons got that way due to having multiple films, in some cases like Saw or Friday the 13th, having a film nearly every year for a decade. With how many horror sequels that make it out, it may come as a shock that plenty of sequels have been planned or even written only to be canceled before they could see the light of day (or dark of night)....
What makes a TV show iconic? Will it be determined by the jokes, the rawness of the drama, or how it holds up over time? Each answer is actually a good answer. When discussing the impact a show can have on an entire culture, the list gets small. In the black community, shows are ranked off feeling. There have been a ton of comedies, dramas, and talk shows that have done nothing but offer quick laughs and the episode is forgotten within the next 30 minutes....
Could it be that, as Star Wars fans, we’re already getting spoiled? We had to wait over 10 years between Episode III and Episode VII and now, just three months after the release of the latter, we can’t wait for the release of the first anthology film, Rogue One, in December. And we’ll have at least four more movies to look forward to after that. Fortunately, there are virtually endless ways, through many different media to get your Star Wars fix over the next nine months....
