The Justice League Snyder Cut is full of parallels to The Lord of the Rings. The original, 214-minute DC story was going to take inspiration from the iconic story by J.R.R. Tolkien in more ways the one, but that didn’t end up happening due to the film’s extensive reshoots. Despite some misconceptions, Zack Snyder’s original framework for the DC Extended Universe was not to create an equal to the Marvel Cinematic Universe....
Star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Kenya Moore revealed that her intimacy with her husband Marc Daly has suffered since co-sleeping with their child. The former Miss USA recently made the startling revelation about her relationship. Fans of the show may remember how Moore struggled to find a life partner and become pregnant. Now, she’s desperate to keep her family intact. Ever since her inaugural season on The Real Housewives of Atlanta (via People), she made her biological clock a topic of discussion....
Though its story of a spy and a psychopath sharing a mutual obsession with one another deservedly became the central selling point of BBC America’s Killing Eve in season 1, the wicked will they or won’t they between Sandra Oh’s intelligence agent Eve Polatstri and Jodie Comer’s fashionable assassin Villanelle wasn’t the show’s only selling point. The series’ early character- and world-building moments were marked with memorable instants of casual weirdness, like Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn Martens’s off-hand remark of watching a rat drink a can of soda....
Apple is typically pretty tight lipped about product and user stats and data unless it has a giant number it wants to share. We’re told number of iPhones sold on opening weekend and total billions of dollars paid out to developers in total, but we don’t know how many Apple Watches have been sold or which iPads are most popular. But analyst Kirk Burgess points out on Twitter that Apple’s Game Center app openly boasts how many users it has with a giant number hidden in plain sight....
Apple is expected to unleash three new iPhone models in the fall, two high-end models with OLED displays, and one 6.1-inch iPhone with an LCD display. In a new report, KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo is sharing a few more details for what to expect with the LCD model. In addition to not having 3D Touch as reported earlier, KGI’s Kuo (via Feng) believes that Apple will be using a stronger display glass which will be more impact resistant and lighter....
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is today out with a pair of new investor notes on Apple. The analyst offers new supply chain details on the new iPhones coming this year, AirPods demand, and more. Kuo also says Apple is planning a more affordable 13-inch MacBook Air for this year… Kuo says that he expects Apple to release a new MacBook Air “with a lower price tag” during the second quarter of 2018, meaning we should see it sooner rather than later....
Season 2 of BBC America’s Killing Eve gets its first teaser trailer, which offers a good look at what happened to Villanelle after the events of the season 1 finale. The series was an unequivocal hit, being a rare new television show to see its fan base and viewership grow over the course of its critically acclaimed first season. The series has since gone on to win some awards, too, like the Golden Globe for star Sandra Oh, and a pair of Emmy nominations for Oh and series creator/writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge....
Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot once again adds to its already stellar cast, bringing Zazie Beetz and Betty Gabriel aboard. Originally airing from 1959 to 1964, The Twilight Zone brought sophisticated and socially conscious anthology style horror, sci-fi and supernatural storytelling to network TV, and would go on to become one of the classic shows of all-time. Now, 60 years after creator and host Rod Serling first took audiences on a trip to the Twilight Zone, CBS All Access will revive the show for the streaming era, with Get Out director Jordan Peele as executive producer and presenter....
Played by Jeff Goldblum in the multi-billion dollar Jurassic Park franchise, Dr. Ian Malcolm is a noted mathematician who is brought in to assess the viability of the dinosaur theme park on the remote Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica. When things go famously wrong, he’s associated with the issue of dinosaurs living in the modern world and considered an authority on the subject for surviving the first catastrophe....
The director-of-photography for 2017’s Justice League, Fabian Wagner, has expressed his disappointment at how much of his work was cut from the film’s theatrical version. Following the tragic passing of his daughter, Zack Snyder stepped down from directing duties on the superhero team-up and the film headed in for significant reshoots. Despite assurances from Warner Bros. that the film would essentially remain Snyder’s vision, the finished product proved to be a massive detour from what Snyder intended for Justice League....
The last time security researchers at Kaspersky checked the state of Macs infected with the Flashback malware outbreak, it estimated roughly 140,000 were still infected. At the recent Info Security Europe 2012 conference, CBR quoted CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky as claiming Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft when it comes to security: “I think they are ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security,” Kaspersky told CBR. “For many years I’ve been saying that from a security point of view there is no big difference between Mac and Windows....
Kim Kardashian of Keeping Up with the Kardashians posted pictures of Kanye West and all four of her kids at Kylie Jenner’s daughter, Stormi Webster’s extravagant party titled StormiWorld2. The reality star shared with fans the fan she had at her niece’s over-the-top second birthday party. The famous family has been known for its hit reality television show that airs on E! The family has grown over the years with the help of marriages and babies....
Warner Bros’ Joker is on pace to be a more profitable comic book outing than Avengers: Infinity War. Since its release earlier this month, the R-rated film has been racking up the box office numbers, becoming one of the most successful R-rated movies of all-time; it could, quite possibly, eclipse all other R-rated movies. It goes without saying that Joker isn’t one’s typical comic book movie (if it is at all)....
Securing a job in the information security field means having the right education and skills to keep up with the rapid changes in technology. While formal education is important, it is more so for information security professionals. This is because a key part of a successful career in this sector is maintaining the drive to continue learning daily, keeping their knowledge up to date by attending courses and workshops that focus on hands-on practice and by acquiring current certifications in the chosen IT sector....
Last week, Qualcomm demoed its working in-screen fingerprint sensing technology, lending confidence to iPhone 8 hopes. A new report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, however, says Qualcomm’s solution isn’t close to shipping… Qualcomm demoed its solution in a prototype Vivo phone, but there’s no clear timetable for a release at this time. Kuo explains that Qualcomm’s implementation of in-screen fingerprint sensing is an “improvement, but not perfect....
Kingpin: Life of Crime, a classic first-person shooter in its own right, is getting a face-lift in the form of Kingpin: Reloaded, a total remaster of the 1999 original which is set to release in 2020. The new game is scheduled to be shown for the first time at PAX South this weekend. Released through Interplay and developed by Xatrix Entertainment (the now-defunct studio behind the Redneck Rampage series), the original Kingpin game was essentially a revenge story about the player character’s quest to even the score with the titular Kingpin and his lieutenant, Nikki Blanco, in a retro gangland setting with an art deco flair....
While the sci-fi-sounding “Apple Glasses” remain many years off in the future, rumors and reports continue to swirl around the Apple virtual reality and augmented reality headset. Apple is believed to be releasing this headset next year, as a kind of precursor to the mass consumer glasses. The Apple headset will compete against high-end products like the Valve Index and HTC Vive Pro. Today, Kuo says that specifications for the product indicate that it will feature a sophisticated eye-tracking system....
Thanks to John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, we finally know more about John Wick’s origin, and even what his real name is. The action-heavy franchise that revived Keanu Reeves’ career in many ways is back in theaters with another installment, and while the action is top notch as usual, the third entry in the John Wick franchise also spends plenty of time exploring the larger assassin world. This is especially true when it comes to John Wick, who has previously been a very mysterious hitman as far as audiences can tell, but a legend in this universe to many....
Who would reign supreme in the ultimate showdown: John Wick or Mission: Impossible’s Ethan Hunt? With the release of John Wick 3: Parabellum, Keanu Reeves’s status as an action star favorite has once again been secured with audiences and critics alike. The Matrix star experienced a surprising career resurgence through the John Wick movies, which combine gloriously over-the-top stunts with the most appealing elements of Reeves’s effortlessly cool on-screen persona. Wick has fought off swarms of fellow assassins, dealt with home invasions, kicked ass in crowded nightclubs, and in the new film, he has full-on brawls while riding a horse....
Josie Canseco and The Hills: New Beginnings star, Jenner Brody have been showing just how well their relationship is going. After his split with his wife, Kaitlynn Carter, he and Josie have been inseparable. Josie recently posted a picture of her and Jenner kissing. After Jenner split with his The Hills: New Beginnings co-star and wife, Carter, he was seen just weeks after with Victoria’s Secret model, Canseco. She recently put her and Jenner’s love on display in a series of romantic Instagram photos last week, where the duo packed on the PDA while riding horses together on a trip to Montana....
