Knives Out leads viewers on a thrilling and wickedly fun ride as the entire ensemble offers breathtaking performances in this whodunnit mystery. Though Rian Johnson is now perhaps best known for having directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the writer-director cut his teeth in Hollywood on the likes of the neo-noir Brick, comedy caper The Brothers Bloom and sci-fi crime drama Looper. Across all his films, Johnson incorporates story elements that subvert expectations, delivering twists viewers won’t see coming....

Earlier today, Apple took the wraps off the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus and one of the flagship features the company focused on during the unveil was 3D Touch. 3D Touch is the highly anticipated force-sensing feature that adds new “peek” and “pop” gestures that bring up windows and interfacing hidden under panes. Bloomberg this evening has now published a fascinating piece in which it dissects the development of 3D Touch within Apple’s design team....

John Carl Buechler’s 1986 horror/fantasy hybrid, Troll, has become infamous for many of the wrong reasons, but it’s also gained some notoriety because of an important piece of casting. There’s a real art to turning out a satisfying B-movie and Troll hits the perfect sweet spot. The film is incredibly silly and its imperfections are prevalent, but that’s helped the movie become such a conversation place. Strangely, Troll 2 and Troll 3, which happen to be unrelated to Troll, have also gained equally notorious reputations....

[slideshow] The changes include: -New library design. View your content in a new, updated look and feel. iPhone users can now choose view their library in grid view. -Cloud view. Easily access all of your content in the cloud in a simple, combined view. -Optimized for the new iPad Retina display. First unboxing of Retina iPad shows a whole lot of nothing [Video] (9to5mac.com) As we thought, new iPad takes longer to charge....

Kenu is upgrading its car mount lineup with the new Airframe Wireless and Airbase Wireless. Both are compatible with all iPhones and even wirelessly charge the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, and newer. Airbase Wireless and Airframe Wireless also support rotation so you can easily mount your iPhone in landscape mode for navigation or drop your iPhone in portrait orientation for music control. Airbase Wireless is dash-mount style for mounting and charging your iPhone anywhere on your dashboard or windshield using a suction grip....

Kickfolio, a service that allows developers to offer demos of their iOS apps directly in the browser using an HTML5-based platform, today announced it is now allowing devs to embed their iOS apps directly in the Facebook news feed. The news comes as the company raises over $1 million in seed funding and changes its ‘Kickfolio’ branding to a more suitable “App.io”. We’ve told you about the service before, which allows devs to embed playable HTML5 demos of their iOS apps directly on webpages and press releases for as little as $9 a month....

Netflix documentary Knock Down the House chronicles the campaigns of four women vying to become U.S. Representatives in the Democratic Party in the 2018 elections. The candidates are Paula Jean Swearingen, running for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia, Cori Bush, running for Congress in Missouri, Amy Vilela, running for Congress in Nevada, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, running for Congress in New York. Of the four candidates, Ocasio-Cortez was the only won to win her election and be elected as a U....

Actress Zazie Beetz has starred in the two highest-grossing R-rated movies ever - Deadpool 2 and now Joker. In 2o18, she appeared in Deadpool 2 as Domino, winning audiences over with her cool, collected demeanor and refusal to put up with Deadpool’s sass. Earlier this month, she starred as Arthur Fleck’s “love interest” in Joker, but her actual importance and involvement in the plot have been subjects of great debate....

Jony Ive was one of ten ’eminent figures’ awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford yesterday. The degree was awarded at Encaenia, the University’s annual honorary degree ceremony, where Ive became a Doctor of Science. The announcement listed Ive’s lengthy list of previous accolades … One of his more unusual awards was to be declared one of the top 10 most influential people in car tech before Apple has shown us so much as a single sketch of an Apple Car....

Jason Reitman’s Juno tells the story of a relatable teenager who unexpectedly gets pregnant and has to figure out what she’s going to do with the baby. From Elliot Page’s poignant performance in the title role to Diablo Cody’s Oscar-winning semi-autobiographical screenplay bringing a real authenticity to the plot, it’s a truly beautiful movie. Juno is a rare comedy-drama with strong elements of both genres. The movie has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, and it also has plenty of heartfelt — or downright heartbreaking — dramatic scenes....

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A special Top 11 list today from noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on the next iPhone (6s? 7?) that will be released later this year. Counting down: Force Touch will be the biggest upgraded selling point, but also one of the main bottlenecks of the supply chain. Force Touch can enrich user experience due to more input methods and support of handwritten signatures, which is beneficial for expanding in the commercial market Screen will remain at 4....

Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit is a dark comedy-drama, set on Nazi Germany, about a boy who is a big fanatic of Adolf Hitler yet feels his views change when he encounters a Jewish girl that his mother hid in their house. The movie divided critics because of the Nazi’s comedic depiction and the light treatment of its subject matter. Nevertheless, it reaped many awards for the season and gained 6 nominations for this year’s Oscars....

Joker uses a real-life medical condition to explain the Clown Prince of Crime’s laugh - the Pseudobulbar Affect, or PBA. A classic Batman supervillain, the Joker is best known for his distinctive laugh. It’s typically treated as an expression of the Joker’s insane sense of humor, as he laughs at the chaos he leaves in his wake. But Joker takes a very different approach. In Joker, the laughter is really an expression of Arthur Fleck’s inner pain....

As expected, Apple SVP of Design Jony Ive made an appearance at the WIRED25 event today. The company’s head designer was interviewed by Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The conversation started off with technology addiction. In response to the ongoing concerns regarding the topic, Ive says that it just depends on how you use your devices. On the same topic of addiction, he notes that in “the nature of innovating” it’s impossible to “predict all the consequences....

Justice League will be the fifth movie in the DC Extended Universe. When it airs, only a handful of the characters will have been properly introduced, with Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman all having had full films. The rest of the league, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg have only been seen so far in cameos, without their origins explained or personalities explored. Meeting them and learning who they are is going to be a big part of Justice League....

KGI this morning is out with a new investor note touching on iPhone X demand through the 2017 holiday quarter. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also notes the negative impact the iPhone X will have on demand for the iPhone 8, which he anticipates will sell worse than originally expected… Kuo explains that iPhone X production will hit between 25 million and 27 million units during the holiday quarter, with sell through between 22 million and 24 million....

Jurassic World 2 is continuing to add new names to its diverse, growing cast. Stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are both set to reprise their respective roles from Jurassic World, and B.D. Wong is also rumored to return as Dr. Henry Wu. But other than that, the rest of the sequel’s cast will be mostly fresh blood. The sequel has recently added a handful of young, up-and-coming TV stars to join the supporting cast, such as The Originals’ Daniella Pineda and The Get Down’s Justice Smith....

Here’s why Key And Peele’s “Consequences” sketch is one of their most underrated. Key & Peele was a Comedy Central sketch show from creators Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. While a lot of their skits could miss the mark, they still managed to produce a lot of classic sketches throughout the show’s five-season run. They created memorable characters like the painfully nerdy Wendell, angry teacher Mr. Garvey and the hyperactive Valets who admire the works of Liam Neesons and Bruce Willy....

A big announcement was recently teased by Kojima Productions, creators of Death Stranding, and many fans believe it has something to do with Silent Hills. A cryptic tweet went up on the company’s Twitter early in the morning. Hideo Kojima, the creator of Kojima Productions and the director of their first title Death Stranding, made waves in late 2014 with the release of P.T. This was a fully playable first-person horror game published by Konami designed by Kojima in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro....