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Jaissle starts with win but not planning to ‘smash locker room’
Newcastle United’s new head coach Matthias Jaissle oversaw a 2-1 pre-season friendly win over Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium, his first match in charge, but was quick to temper expectations despite the trophy. He said the club would not “smash the locker room” in celebration, stressing there was still plenty to work on, particularly after…
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Mortal Kombat Director ‘Not Sure’ About Return for Third Movie as Mortal Kombat 3 Remains in Limbo
Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid has cast doubt on whether he will return to helm a potential third instalment, saying he is “not sure” about the project’s future. Speaking to The Wrap, McQuoid was vague even on the film’s basic status, noting it is “still going through its life cycle” despite screenwriter Jeremy Slater having…
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6 Years Later, Anya Taylor-Joy’s Forgotten X-Men Movie Is Officially Finding New Life on Streaming
The New Mutants, the much-delayed X-Men spin-off starring Anya Taylor-Joy, is finding a new audience on streaming six years after its troubled cinematic release. Once seen as a doomed footnote in superhero cinema history due to repeated delays, its entanglement in Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, and an eventual release during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Fifa rallies behind Infantino as severance payment questions grow
Fifa has issued a statement rallying behind president Gianni Infantino as scrutiny grew over a severance payment made by Uefa to a female employee during his tenure as the governing body’s general secretary. Rather than addressing the specifics of the payment, Fifa characterised the media coverage and criticism as part of a deliberate campaign to…
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First images of Colin Firth, Laura Linney and Julianne Moore playing the ‘throuple’ who inspired bestselling lovemaking manual The Joy of Sex
First-look images have been released showing Colin Firth, Laura Linney and Julianne Moore in a new production depicting the real-life “throuple” whose relationship is said to have inspired the bestselling 1972 sex manual The Joy of Sex. The casting brings together three highly regarded actors to portray the unconventional trio behind one of the most…
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Guy Ritchie’s 123-Minute War Epic Officially Finds a New Streaming Home
Guy Ritchie’s Black Hawk Down meets The Hurt Locker war thriller still holds up as one of the best watches on Hulu.
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4 Pop Icons From the 80s You Probably Recognize (Even if You Can’t Name Them)
Don’t recognize these names from 80s pop music? We can almost guarantee that you’ll definitely recognize their biggest hits. The post 4 Pop Icons From the 80s You Probably Recognize (Even if You Can’t Name Them) appeared first on American Songwriter.
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A timeline of how CBGB became the cornerstone of music evolution in the 1970s
CBGB evolved from a struggling New York bar into a crucial launching point for punk, new wave and alternative music during the 1970s, providing a regular stage for emerging artists to develop distinctive sounds and audiences. – December 1973: Hilly Kristal opens CBGB at 315 Bowery, originally intending it for country, bluegrass and blues. -…
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Labor MP Ed Husic breaks his silence after his Tesla was hit by a B-double truck in terrifying crash that left him in hospital
Labor MP Ed Husic has spoken publicly for the first time since a serious three-vehicle crash on Sydney’s M7 motorway left him hospitalised with a fractured vertebra, concussion and memory loss. Husic, a former federal cabinet minister, was driving home from his electorate office on Tuesday evening when his Tesla was struck by a B-double…
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10 Best Horror Movies for Sickos
This is a curated listicle from Collider ranking ten horror films that fit the loosely defined “sicko movie” category — titles that lean into gross-out excess, body horror or gleeful sleaze rather than conventional restraint, sometimes shading into horror comedy or social satire. The list is inherently subjective, compiled by writer Jeremy Urquhart as a…