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Everyone’s playing the fantastic Spider-Man PS5 games after Brand New Day
Interest in Marvel’s Spider-Man video games has surged following the box office success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which has taken an estimated $355 million globally. Although no official tie-in game accompanies the film, fans have instead turned to Insomniac Games’ existing PlayStation titles to get their web-slinging fix, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 recently updated…
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James Ellis Ford – “The Ever After”
James Ellis Ford, the acclaimed producer behind numerous major UK albums, has shared a new track called “The Ever After” from his forthcoming second solo album. The song is notable for having been written and recorded while Ford was undergoing chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia, with the artist describing the record as an attempt to…
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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3 Recap: What To Remember Before Apple TV’s Fan-Favorite Series Officially Returns
Ted Lasso is returning to Apple TV+ for an unexpected fourth season, prompting a look back at how the acclaimed comedy left things at the end of Season 3, which had originally aired as a de facto series finale. The show, which debuted in August 2020 and won multiple Emmys including Outstanding Comedy Series, followed…
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Zac Brown Band Stuns Boston Crowd With Biggest Giveaway in History
The Zac Brown Band gave every single fan attending its Fenway Park concert a free two-person cruise, calling it the biggest giveaway in music history. Frontman Zac Brown made the surprise announcement mid-show during the band’s Love & Fear US Tour stop in Boston on Sunday, saying he wanted to reward the entire audience rather…
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Nier Replicant mod adds the remaster’s biggest missing feature
A modder has restored one of the original Nier game’s two protagonists to its 2021 remaster, Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139, addressing a long-standing gap for fans. The 2010 original was released in two versions with different lead characters, but only one, the younger “Brother Nier”, was included when Square Enix remastered the game, leaving the older…
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Bob Dylan Wraps Up Dramatic U.S. Tour by Adding One More Guitarist Into the Mix: Jimmie Vaughan
Bob Dylan brought his summer US tour to a close on 1 August at the Ascend Federal Credit Union Amphitheater in Nashville, ending a run marked by unusual upheaval among his backing guitarists. For the final show, Dylan invited opening act Jimmie Vaughan onto the stage for three songs, continuing what has become a season…
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Scotland v UAE ODI washed out at Forthill
Scotland’s Cricket World Cup League 2 one-day international against the United Arab Emirates was abandoned without a ball bowled due to persistent rain at Forfarshire Cricket Club in Broughty Ferry. The washout is a blow for the tri-series opener and highlights the difficulty of scheduling outdoor fixtures in Scotland, though it does not immediately harm…
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‘The Exorcist’ star Linda Blair speaks out after home searched in reported 100-dog kennel investigation
Actress Linda Blair, best known for her role in “The Exorcist,” has spoken publicly after Los Angeles County officials searched her Southern California property as part of an ongoing investigation into a reported kennel operation said to house more than 100 dogs. The 67-year-old, who runs an animal welfare organisation, said both she and the…
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Green Day on the Real-Life Shenanigans That Inspired the Band’s Film ‘Nimrods’: ‘There’s a Lot of Our Lives in There’
Green Day have produced a new film, Nimrods, which draws heavily on the band’s own early experiences touring in vans and scraping together money on the road. The comedy, released in cinemas on 14 August, follows two young bandmates, played by Mason Thames and Kylr Coffman, as they travel across America to open for Green…
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The 2022 role Emily Blunt will never be able to let go of: “Will have its fingerprints in me forever”
Emily Blunt has said that playing Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2022 film Oppenheimer is a role she will never fully leave behind, describing it as having “fingerprints” on her forever. The part mattered because it required her to portray the private strain and resilience of the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who…