Caution: Spoilers ahead for Joker Love it or hate it, Joker is a film that forces the audience to question how much of what they witnessed was actually real. As Warner Bros. and DC gradually move away from a shared universe approach and towards a looser model of filmmaking, a rare beast has forced its way into the mainstream movie release schedule: a truly standalone comic book movie. Free from franchise restrictions, the confines of a specific comic book story or the need to set up a sequel, Todd Phillips’ Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, is remarkably baggage-free for a movie of its stature....

A full-length trailer for Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone has arrived. It’s been a life-changing two years for Peele since he went from being a fan-favorite comedic actor - known for his Key & Peele sketch comedy series with Keegan-Michael Key - to one of the pioneers in the modern horror scene, following his directorial debut on 2017’s Get Out. The latter film won Peele an Oscar for his screenwriting and was celebrated for being an incisive exploration of racism in America through the lens of a darkly satirical narrative that wouldn’t have felt out of place on Rod Serling’s original Twilight Zone TV series....

Jude Law’s character in Captain Marvel has been at the center of a great deal of debate and discussion. Originally reported in the trades to be playing Walter Lawson (the alter ego of the Kree hero Mar-Vell), recent revelations seem to indicate that Law may be playing Yon-Rogg. While we wait to find out for sure, we do know that Law’s character is the leader of the Kree Starforce and Carol Danvers’ mentor....

The version of Justice League released in theaters is credited with Zack Snyder as director, but he left the production before it was completed in the wake of a family tragedy, and in his absence, Joss Whedon was brought on to add nearly 80 new script pages and reshoot massive chunks of the movie. The final product bears little resemblance to Zack Snyder’s original intent. In the years since Justice League’s release, fans have mounted a persistent campaign for the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League cut....

You can add Kanye West to the exclusive club of celebrities with an all-gold Apple Watch Edition with a gold Link Bracelet. The rapper sported the custom made Apple Watch to the Chicago Bulls vs. Cleveland Cavaliers playoff game earlier today, and he wore the watch while performing during a timeout. He also recently wore his Watch to a Louis Vuitton event. West is now the third known individual with this special edition device, joining singer Beyonce and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld....

Apple may have just announced its latest MacBook Pro refresh, but a new note from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is already offering a look at what Apple has in store for next year’s models. According to the note, Apple is planning both a price cut as well as an internal hardware refresh for its MacBook Pro lineup. The report is overall optimistic about the 2017 MacBook lineup, noting that Apple tends to overprice at the start of a new MacBook generation before gradually lowering the price in the following year....

When it comes to Christmas/Holiday shopping this year, its advantage Apple with kids abandoning traditional gifts and toys in favor of an iPad or some other slice of Cupertino-designed tech gladness. The most recent Duracell Toy Report claims two-thirds of teens (13-16-year-olds) want Apple products, such as the iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch. The firm’s Toy Report found that 17 per cent of five to eight-year-olds want an Apple gadget for Christmas and 50 per cent of nine to 12-year-olds put one of the company’s products on top of their list this year....

Thankfully, the breach does not affect millions but 2,700 users who registered on JRD, Joomla Resources Directory. The incident happened last week when a member of JRD left a full unencrypted backup of JRD on AWS S3 server. The company said that it was possible for a third-party to find and download the backup. It is not sure if any third-party had found it or not. In any case, Joomla team highly recommends all affected users to change their passwords on other websites (if they used the same password on multiple sites)....

Kanye West and IMAX announce Jesus Is King. The feature film will complement the American musician’s ninth studio album of the same name, which was originally scheduled for a September 27 release, but has yet to appear online. In 2018, West produced several albums collectively known as the “Wyoming Sessions.” One of the releases was Ye, the musician’s anticipated eighth album. The cover art includes a mountain skyline, along with the text “I hate being Bi-Polar it’s awesome....

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Kingdom Hearts 3’s elusive bronze “Centurion” trophy requires a massive 12 million point total. Here is how to achieve it. During your first visit to the Toy Story world, players are thrown into the fictional video game world of Verum Rex by a Young Xehanort. Here in Verum Rex, Sora can take over Giga Mechs and deal some serious damage to the enemies. After completing your first visit of Toy Box, the player now has the ability to return back to the world and re-enter Verum Rex: Beat of Lead at their own pace....

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Build 16299.334 There are no new features with this update, but here an extensive list of improvements and new fixes the patch contains: Addresses issue with a GDI handle leak in the Windows Ribbon control.Addresses issue where users can’t select OK after entering credentials in command line on Windows Server version 1709.Addresses issues where Bluetooth devices fail to receive data after a restart.Addresses issue where, during BitLocker decryption or encryption of a drive, files protected with the Encrypting File System (EFS) may become corrupted....

The report indicates that Apple will release its first ARM Mac as soon as the end of this year, with a shipment timeframe of Q4 2020 – Q1 2021. This will likely be some kind of MacBook, but Kuo does not provide more specific technical details … Most people assume that Apple will start its transition from Intel to ARM Macs with some kind of laptop. Laptops have a performance profile in line with the latest iPad Pro, and Apple has shown its excellence in making powerful ARM chips to rival laptops....

He was a respected attorney and jurist who was born in Los Angeles in 1919, attended Hollywood High School and was said to have once dated screen legend Lana Turner. He retired from the bench in 1979, but his greatest fame came in a different kind of courtroom. Joseph Wapner was the presiding judge on The People’s Court from 1981 to 1993, pioneering a brand new genre of TV show and becoming an unlikely pop culture touchstone and household name at a time when he was already in his 60s....

Jumanji: The Next Level easily wins the box office in its opening weekend, setting a new Sony record in the process. With the notable exception of Joker, a number of this fall’s would-be tentpoles (like Terminator: Dark Fate and Charlie’s Angels) fell well short of expectations and bombed commercially. The hope was the holiday season’s crop of blockbuster releases would get things back on track, and so far that’s proven true....

Zack Snyder shared a Christmas present for Justice League fans in the form of a new image from his film. Support for the infamous “Snyder Cut” of Justice League has gained a lot of traction in the past few months, with fans taking to Twitter to demand Warner Bros. release it and multiple cast members (like Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa) sharing their support. For his part, Snyder has released several images of the cut on his Vero account, further stoking fan excitement....

On Tuesday, SentinelOne published an analysis of the bug, tracked as CVE-2021-45388 and deemed critical by the research team. The vulnerability impacts the KCodes NetUSB kernel module. KCodes solutions are licensed by numerous hardware vendors to provide USB over IP functionality in products including routers, printers, and flash storage devices. KCodes NetUSB, the subject of a SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab analysis in the past, is proprietary software used to facilitate these connections – and the software is currently “used by a large number of network device vendors,” of which the security flaws “affect millions of end-user router devices,” according to SentinelOne....

While their performance received mixed reviews Key & Peele’s VMAs’ 2016 commentary was a lot of fun. Key & Peele is a Comedy Central sketch show created by and starring comic duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Like a lot of sketch shows, the various skits could be hit and miss, but Key & Peele produced some all-time classics. They created several iconic characters, including the hyperactive, movie-obsessed Valets, Key’s angry teacher Mr....

While all the signs are pointing toward Apple bringing wireless charging to all three of this year’s iPhones, there are still a lot of question marks out there – one of which is compatibility with existing charging kit. One of the biggest suppliers of wireless charging mats for everything from cars to coffee shops is seeking to offer reassurance there, stating that it plans to support ‘whatever wireless charging protocol Apple employs’ …...

Almost a year after shipping its iPhone app, Kickstarter has released version 2.0 which includes full iPad support for the crowdfunding service’s app as well as a new design using a card interface for projects. As with the iPhone version, Kickstarter says its iPad app helps users find new projects to back and keep up with updates on projects you follow, now only bigger with the tablet… Project creators can use the new iPad app to post updates on projects, keep up with the latest funding progress, and interact with backers....