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Starfield mod revives canceled Star Wars Boba Fett 1313 game ( www.pcgamesn.com )
For many Star Wars faithful, bringing up the canned Boba Fett 1313 title instantly evokes some painful memories. The game, which was set to start the beloved bounty hunter from the original movie trilogy, was revealed over a decade ago but was canceled quite soon after its reveal, leaving fans of the franchise to wallow and...
Bill Nighy, Noah Jupe, George MacKay & Matt Smith To Star In Pablo Trapero’s English-Language Film Debut ‘& Sons’ From Oscar Winner Sarah Polley’s Script — Cannes Market Hot Project ( deadline.com )
Oscar nominee Bill Nighy (Living), Indie Spirit nominee Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place I & II), BAFTA nominee George MacKay (1917) and BAFTA nominee Matt Smith (The Crown) are set to star in acclaimed Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Trapero’s (El Clan) English-language movie debut & Sons, which is being scripted by Oscar winner Sarah...
Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' ( www.thecooldown.com )
The world is on the cusp of an energy transformation that could make the Industrial Revolution look minor. Mike Cannon-Brookes is banking on the Land Down Under to be a major driver of that change....
Nicolas Cage film 'The Surfer' induces knee-buckling six minute standing ovation at Cannes ( beachgrit.com )
Now, let us all be honest. There has only been one surf film, ever, worth the time of an auteur and that is Bruce Brown’s seminal masterpiece The Endless Summer. Others, including Point Break, North Shore, Blue Crush are cute. Others still, including Chasing Mavericks and In God’s Hands, are so offensive as to count as...
Star Wars Midi-Chlorians Actually Exist In Real Life ( www.giantfreakinrobot.com )
To this day, nothing makes old-school Star Wars fans angrier than midi-chlorians, which George Lucas added to The Phantom Menace to retroactively (and very disappointingly) explain how The Force works. They made for a terrible addition to our favorite fictional galaxy far, far away, but what most fans don’t realize is that the...
‘More like therapists’: adult virgins turn to Nevada brothels for sex – and healing ( www.theguardian.com )
At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang....
German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors ( www.theguardian.com )
Is Britain leading the way in protecting young people and children from the potential traumas of working on a film set, or has it all gone far too far? Two of the most prominent European stars attending the Cannes film festival, both with high-profile premieres, have very different views....
‘Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In’: Cannes Review ( www.screendaily.com )
Soi Cheang’s punchy, peppy thriller will be lapped up like manna from heaven by fans of Hong Kong action cinema. Set in the genre’s salad days, the 1980s, in Hong Kong’s gang-ridden enclave of Kowloon Walled City, it takes delicious advantage of that decade’s clothes, haircuts and pimpy shades....
The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop? ( www.theguardian.com )
In Hollywood, the first weekend of May is traditionally seen as the official kick-off of the summer movie season: an auspicious blockbuster date that has, of late, become rather a boring one....
Tiger Stripes review – entertaining Malaysian horror shows its claws ( www.theguardian.com )
Amanda Nell Eu’s snarling debut is not the first film to harness body horror tropes as an allegory for the adolescent angst and the shame of female puberty. But this Malaysian production, which shares central ideas with Pixar’s Turning Red, as well as genre films such as Carrie and Ginger Snaps, folds in a distinctive...
Kes: Forgotten 35mm film confirmed as 1969 original ( www.bbc.com )
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Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room ( metro.co.uk )
The Best Tabletop Miniature Skirmish Games To Play in 2024 ( www.destructoid.com )
I have always maintained that one of the most detrimental factors for modern wargame design has been the comparatively cheap rent for houses with large sitting rooms in Nottingham, England, during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
Petition launched to save Dartmoor ponies from ‘extinction’ after DEFRA further restricts commoners ( tlio.org.uk )
Kes: Forgotten 35mm film confirmed as 1969 original ( www.bbc.com )
A forgotten film canister discovered in a South Yorkshire loft has been found to contain an original 35mm copy of Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes....
France issues baguette-scented scratch-and-sniff stamp ( www.bbc.com )
If we issued a scratch and sniff stamp what do you think it would be? Stale lager and piss?
New 'Dynamite Kid' from Wigan sparkles on his All Elite Wrestling debut stateside ( www.wigantoday.net )
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Teenagers could help fill train driver shortage ( www.bbc.com )
Teenagers will be able to qualify to drive trains on Britain's railways under new proposals....
Cannes crowd boos Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis ( www.independent.co.uk )
Francis Ford Coppola’s 140-minute, self-financed magnum opus received a mixed reaction at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (16 May)....
Trump Supporter Trolls Trial With Penis Balloons Featuring Alvin Bragg, Judge Merchan Faces ( www.thedailybeast.com )
A pro-Trump New Yorker unveiled his latest piece of political performance art outside the Manhattan courtroom where Trump’s criminal trial is underway on Thursday, launching 100 pink penis-shaped balloons decorated with the faces of Trump foes like Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan. The artist,...
German politician's video of licking public toilets goes viral ( www.thenews.com.pk )
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14208407...
Just seen the first teaser for season 2 of We Are Lady Parts, woot woot!!! ( www.imdb.com )
The first season was amazing and I was so frustrated when it wasn't certain there would be a second, so this is massively exciting news....
Pals ecstatic after spotting ‘Northern Lights’ - but it was a Premier Inn sign ( www.mirror.co.uk )
Karim Akhtar and Solomon Laurent were walking home from a night out on Friday when they noticed a purple hue lighting up the Norfolk sky. The duo, both 22, immediately whipped out their cameras and began filming a TikTok video as they laughed in amazement and couldn't believe their luck. But just seconds later, they were left...
UK's sexiest man for the second year running ( c.l3n.co )
No word of a lie:...
This is what peak slavcore looks like (extra images in the comments) ( sh.itjust.works )
Blushing hens: Study finds French chickens get red in the face when scandalized ( www.salon.com )
In a recent study into animal emotional intelligence, researchers found that not only do chickens express their frustrations through facial blushing and feather-fluffing, but also their fondness for their handlers and their excitement for a little treat. And for each emotional state, their combs and jowls either grow red with...
New weapon being developed to blast drones out of sky with radio waves, says MoD ( www.shropshirestar.com )
A cutting-edge new weapon which uses radio waves to blast drones out of the sky is under development for the UK’s armed forces....
Is it ever okay to generalize about people? why or why not?
Is this golden dragon obese? Or is that a round boulder? ( ttrpg.network )
Anybody have Marvel/DC reading suggestions?
How to work with someone that regularly arrives as the wrong answer?
I work with a person that went presented with a problem, works through it and arrives at the wrong solution. When I have them show me the steps they took, it seems like they interpret things incorrectly. This isn't a language barrier, and it's not like they aren't reading what someone wrote....
Homeowner finds huge abandoned model railway in back garden ( uk.news.yahoo.com )
When most homeowners move into a new property, they expect to find a few bits and bobs left behind – perhaps a couple of appliances or old cleaning supplies. But most people wouldn't expect to find a giant 150m model railway track buried in the undergrowth of their new back garden....
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