Novels being adapted into books dates back to the dawn of cinema. It makes sense since it guarantees an audience of fans who love to see their beloved story put to the big screen. Of course, this plan doesn’t always pan out. Plenty of adaptations flop hard or become critical disasters. For the most part, however, it is usually a safe bet. One genre that gets plenty of love from Hollywood is science-fiction....
Pinocchio Pinocchio is the name of the wooden puppet boy in the movie of the same name. He is brought to life by a fairy and told that he could become a real boy if he is brave, truthful and unselfish. Unfortunately, this proves to be difficult for Pinocchio, as he’s actually a compulsive pathological liar. It’s kind of his thing and, of course, his nose famously grows whenever he tells a lie - but he just can’t help himself and it keeps growing and growing, even when his “conscience”, Jiminy Cricket, is telling him to speak the truth....
Avengers: Endgame was full of moments that made the audience stand and cheer. However, the biggest audience-pleasing moment of the film had to be when Captain America finally wielded Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir. The moment was teased to great effect back in Avengers: Age of Ultron and this was the big pay off that proved Cap was worthy. While that climactic and desperate fight against Thanos was the moment Cap took up Mjolnir, it’s likely he has been worthy for quite some time....
This year Netflix rolled out another one of its original series, Chambers, a horror story that takes place in the American Southwest. On top of the beautiful Southwestern scenery, Chambers presented an interesting horror story that tried to touch on the themes of class divide, cultural identity, native and new age spiritualities, addiction, and family drama. Sasha, our protagonist, nearly dies from a heart attack in the first episode, saved by what seems a miracle: the young, healthy heart of Becky Lefevre, available the same night....
If any literary character has earned the right to boast, it’s Sherlock Holmes. The iconic sleuth is the most portrayed hero in cinematic history, clocking in at over 250 appearances as of 2016. The reason why, to paraphrase the esteemed Sherlock, is mere “elementary.” Arthur Conan Doyle’s brainchild is the basis for all modern detection, from the analysis of fingerprints and ballistics (which eventually became forensic procedure) to the pipe and deerstalker cap that’s since become a symbol for stalking criminals....
Often times, any studio’s initial plans for a film’s release aren’t set in stone. Release dates are set and then, for one reason or another, pushed back, instigating rumors of cancellation or poor quality. Take the recent opening of Masterminds, for example. Though originally scheduled for an August 19th release last year, Relativity Media’s financial struggles forced them to push back their film well over a year to October 9th, which was then moved up to September 30th....
Everyone was sitting on the edge of their seats this past May as the Guardians took on their biggest challenge yet. Star Lord had to find and lose both of his fathers, Gamora had to battle her vengeful sister, Rocket had to be friendly with Yondu, Baby Groot had to deal with the challenges of growing up, and Drax had to teach Mantis lessons of humanity that he has yet to master....
Angel was Joss Whedon’s spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It featured Buffy’s incredibly popular romantic lead moving up to Los Angeles in a further attempt to make up for his past evil deeds by helping those in desperate need. While there were frequent crossovers with Angel’s sister show, the series very much made a name for itself creating its own cast of beloved characters and featuring more adult, complex, and heavily serialized storytelling than Buffy....
When Smallville premiered in 2001, superheroes were beginning to show their box office dominance but had not taken over our pop culture the way they have today. As such, a show like Smallville, which took superhero concepts and characters seriously still felt pretty ground-breaking in the world of television. That said, there is no use in trying to pretend like the series couldn’t have been improved if some creative decisions were reconsidered....
One of the biggest casualties of the Intellectual Property broken home that was the MCU and Fox’s X-Men franchise was the unfortunately necessary retconning applied to the character of Quicksilver. A fair amount of source material had to be adjusted to account for the absence of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four from the entirety of the MCU, but the story of Pietro Maximoff really broke our hearts in almost every way....
A common feature of what makes a sitcom work so well is its depiction of the everyday lives of its larger than life characters. Whether including bizarre coworkers, quirky families with more members than you can count, unlikely groups of friends, or high school students, sitcoms delight in showing the highs and lows of everyday life. Some of them are more outlandish than others, and some may have dramatic elements to tilt them more toward dramedy than outright comedy....
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Ahead of tomorrow’s AAPL Q3 2021 earnings report, analysts are expecting good news. The Wall Street consensus is that the Cupertino company will report fiscal Q3/calendar Q2 revenue of $72.93B – up from 59.69B in the same quarter last year. They expect earnings per share to reflect both this dramatic revenue growth and continued stock buybacks that effectively increase the value of each remaining share … The Yahoo! Finance roundup of 25 analysts shows that even the most pessimistic of them are expecting substantial revenue growth....
Today, Addigy is announcing Flex Policies for its Apple MDM platform. Addigy Flex Policies simplifies the process of assigning Apple device policies to new or existing devices, saving IT admins time. Flex gives IT admins the ability to configure device attributes that describe a set of criteria that automatically assign Apple devices meeting those criteria to the appropriate policies. Once configured, Addigy will automatically assign those Apple devices to the policy....
Adobe has announced an update today that sees Photoshop for iPad include its recent Fresco painting and drawing app for free. The new Photoshop + Fresco premium bundle is available for Creative Cloud subscribers as well as those who just use Photoshop and Fresco on iPad. On its own, Fresco for iPad is priced at $9.99/year after a 30-day free trial. Now Adobe has announced that it is bundling Fresco with Photoshop at $20....
Are you planning to buy the iPhone 13? If your answer is yes, well, you may not want to buy it in Brazil, as once again the South American country has the most expensive iPhone 13 in the world. The report is conducted by Nukeni and shows all the sales prices, including taxes of the SIM-free iPhone 13 on the Apple website for each country. It’s important to disclaim that some US countries don’t charge any taxes (like Delaware), and this is why the country is listed as the cheapest option, but it also shows how much it costs in the most expensive states as well (like Louisiana)....
Last week, an odd story emerged on Reddit when original AirPods Pro users noticed that the latest iOS 16.1 beta had added Adaptive Transparency to the first-generation model. As we speculated at the time, this appears to be a bug and it seems like the next beta iOS 16.1 will remove the toggle from the Settings app altogether. Transparency Mode is a feature available in the AirPods Pro and AirPods Max that uses the built-in microphones to let users hear the world around them without having to take off the earphones....
Spider-Man: Far From Home opened up a whole new door of possibilities for the MCU, particularly with casting. J. K. Simmon’s return to the J. Jonah Jameson role has gotten people thinking about other actor’s from prior Marvel movies who should make a return in the MCU. Even if the particular movie they starred in wasn’t great, their performance still shines through and would greatly benefit an already stellar lineup of films....
Many of the students and professors who have walked the halls of Hogwarts were beloved characters from the first Harry Potter book, but J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World expanded widely over six more books and a play. The world continues to expand in the Fantastic Beasts movies. A wide variety of characters, both loved and hated, have entered the series, leaving their mark on the story for better or worse. Professors, students, Aurors, Death Eaters, villains, and magical creatures came into Harry Potter and Newt Scamander’s lives....
Lifetime gets an unfair reputation for being full of trashy, terrible movies. That simply isn’t true. Yes, the network does have its fair share of low-budge thrillers with predictable twists and endings, but that doesn’t mean every Lifetime original movie is terrible. Like any other network, there are some hits and some misses. In fact, Lifetime has received its fair share of Primetime Emmy Award nominations and Golden Globe nominations over the decades....
